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Christian masters provide religious instruction for their slaves. • Under slavery, people are treated with kindness, as many northern visitors can attest. • It is in slaveholders’ own...
- Why the Enslaved Adopted the Religion of Their Masters—and ...
What he meant was that the resurrection of Jesus Christ had...
- Why the Enslaved Adopted the Religion of Their Masters—and ...
- Fuller’s Case For Slavery
- Wayland’s Response
- Fuller’s Bad Hermeneutic
- Fuller’s Fatal Flaw
- Pay Attention to God’s Word
Fuller argued that slavery, in principle, is not sinful. Undergirding his argument was his abiding conviction that the Bible is the inspired and authoritative Word of God. The Bible alone has the right to define sin. Once sin has been identified, it is humanity’s responsibility to repent. If “slavery be a sin,” Fuller wrote, “surely it is the immed...
Wayland had great affection for Fuller, but he had no respect for his interpretation of the Bible on this issue. The holes in Fuller’s interpretation are legion, Wayland insisted, and these arguments against slavery stand the test of time. 1. Slavery is a clear violation of Matthew 19:19: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”It is impossible ...
Like many of his contemporaries, Fuller didn’t interpret the Bible properly. He failed to distinguish regulation of slavery from approval of slavery. Scripture regulated slavery, but it never once approved it. In fact, the Bible always moved God’s people away from it. Even though Old Testament saints were allowed to practice slavery, they couldn’t ...
But Fuller’s fatal flaw was not finally his bad hermeneutic. It was his bad theology. He failed to see his black brothers and sisters as divine image-bearers. He commended himself for educating his slaves, giving them good medical care, and keeping them well fed. But he saw them all as fundamentally inferior to whites like himself. Because of his r...
Richard Fuller, James Thornwell, George Washington, George Whitefield, and so many others would’ve done well to have adopted the views of the African-American pastor Lemuel Haynes. He knew everyone, black and white, is crafted in the image of God. The Vermont pastor understood the bitter roots of America’s division over slavery had been nourished i...
Feb 12, 2018 · What he meant was that the resurrection of Jesus Christ had proved its reality because there were, in fact, Christians in Rome, the capital of the oppressive empire whose authority had...
Some slaves rejected Christianity and preserved their traditional African beliefs or their belief in Islam. Other slaves accepted Christianity of a different type—Catholicism.
Jan 29, 2007 · Historical records show that Islam and Christianity played an important role in enslavement in Africa. The Arab-controlled Trans-Saharan slave trade helped to institutionalise slave trading on...
Feb 23, 2018 · Out of the more than three quarters of a million words in the Bible, Christian slaveholders—and, if asked, most slaveholders would have defined themselves as Christian—had two favorites texts,...
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Jun 27, 2018 · How Antebellum Christians Justified Slavery. After Emancipation, some Southern Protestants refused to revise their proslavery views. In their minds, slavery had been divinely sanctioned. From an anti-abolitionist, pro-slavery cartoon, 1800. via Library of Congress.
