“When we turn to
individuals and families, [who owned slaves, as opposed to un-chrisitan laws on slavery (e.g. unlawful to teach slaves to read] the
situation is very different.
The abolitionists maintained that slave-owning was inherently immoral under any
circumstance. But in this matter, the Christians who owned slaves in the South
were on firm scriptural ground. May a Christian own slaves, even when this
makes him a part of a larger pagan system which is not fully scriptural, or
perhaps not scriptural at all? Provided he owns them in conformity to Christ's laws for such situations, the Bible is clear that
Christians may own slaves.”
Wasn't he a speaker at the last meeting of the Flat Earth Society?
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