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You’re quoting the Old Testament. The “lesser laws” of which were superseded by the “higher law” instituted by Jesus.
by colejohnson66 6y ago
You’re quoting the Old Testament. The “lesser laws” of which were superseded by the “higher law” instituted by Jesus.
- a1369209993 6y ago"Slaves, obey your earthly masters" (Ephesians 6:5 and Colossians 3:22) (the easiest one to grep for, since I remember the exact phrasing). Doesn't sound very superseded to me, and Christians continued supporting that right up until the South lost the Civil War (and a fair bit past that in other places) and slavery became politically impractical to defend. So it wasn't a case of a misquotation (by two different sources? really?) being corrected; it was a case of explicitly heretical values being forced on the church at (rather close to literal) gunpoint. As someone more eloquent than me put it: Christianity had it's chance to rule the world; we call it the Dark Ages for good reason.
- humanrebar 6y agoRead up on what the Quakers did that whole time.