You went a few words too far. Slavery was abolished because it was a moral evil. Moral evil. Period. Full stop. End of sentence. A very few religious people saw through the biblical blessings justifying slavery and recognized it for the moral evil it was. It never was or could be considered a sin under any biblical or Christian definition of sin.
Sin is a Christian concept involving a human relationship to God. It has nothing to do with human relationships with each other which are covered by the concept of morality not sin. Any person who does not accept Paul's rants about sin cannot sin. According to Paul in Romans 1:18-23 humans although they knew God they glorified Him not as God. ...and for this cause God gave them up to vile afflictions, that is made them sin. If they knew not God they could not sin. They could be immoral, as immorality is a hateful act or even a hateful statement against another human. Whether it is sin or not makes no difference.
May 7, 2011 -- 2:24PM, wrote:
remember too it was the Church first in England through the leadership of Wilberforce that abolished Slavery there, then here in America here too through the spark ignited by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Toms Cabin. Slavery was abolished because it was a moral evil it was saw for what it was --------> Sin
Atheism, among those who know is a sinful condition.
Leight
2 comments:
"moral evil" is a bit of overkill; if some action is deemed "evil", it is an immoral, bad or wrong action. If something is said to be evil it is defined as being morally bad or wrong.
For slavery to be considered "immoral" it would have to be a bad or wrong action when the correct action would be "without" slavery [which is also awkward.]
Wha'd'ya expect from Leight. He doesn't know anything about either morality or evil. I probably should have changed the post title, but was rushed. May was jammed. All good stuff. One great concert after another,all to be documented later as I catch up.
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