Jesus’ Attitude Towards Slavery

 

Was Jesus A Racist?

 

 

Racist (Webster's): One who believes in, advocates and practices the doctrine of racism; discrimination, segregation, persecution and domination based on racism.

 

Is slavery often a form of racism?

 

Do any religions practice racism?

 

Does Christianity?

 

 

Luke 17:7-10 Jesus said in a parable: Your slave just came in from labor. Say: Prepare something for me to eat. Wait on me while I eat and drink. You may eat and drink when I am finished. Are you grateful the slave did all he was commanded? When you have done all that you have been commanded, say: We are unprofitable slaves; we have done what we are obliged to do.

 

Jesus supported slavery? Isn’t that a racist concept? Jesus projected right here that He and all masters of slaves are entitled. This model has, by historical evidence, rubbed off on the south and every Christian con man and crook serving time in the joint. Is it true that if a man or woman doesn’t make the cut on the last day, Jesus will be glorified as He judges and sentences that man or woman for eternal, painful torture, forever and ever?

 

Matthew 15:24 Jesus said that He was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. KJV 

 

Would or could that be something a racist would say?

 

Matthew 15:26 Jesus said: It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.

 

Did Jesus, by referring to taking from Jewish children and giving to Gentiles (non-Jews), make a racist remark? Could any practicing Christians fail a racism test?

 

Some tend to ignore selective context and to believe with no justification, which is faith. Again, nonsense can never be explained. If we are going to often use faith to replace the factual meanings of the Bible, why use a Bible at all?

 

Matthew 17:17 Jesus said: Oh faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you?

 

Did Jesus resent enduring some people?

 

Some think I’m nuts to take issue with God or Jesus? I’m doing a book report. God and Jesus are in it. Check out your own Bible, chapter and verse. If I am in error as to what the Bible says in English, I will correct it. What is written in these English words will not go away. Why dislike any messenger who honestly exposes verifiable facts?

 

Matthew 18:3 Jesus said: Unless you become like children, you will not enter Heaven.

 

Matthew 18:8-9 Jesus said: If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. If your eye causes you sin, tear it out and throw it away.

 

Among mere humans; sin is often subjective. Did you ever wonder why children, who turn into adults, do violent things or try to escape by drinking booze or taking drugs? Most people, who actually do things heinous and harmful to themselves or others, are often considered insane. Could this type of “sacred” advice make some people act insane?

 

Matthew 18:17 Jesus said: If he refuses to listen to The Church, then, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector.

 

Aren’t Gentiles human beings of different races? Again, Was Jesus a racist?

 

Could Jesus’ advice, right here, have given rise to The Inquisition or The Crusades?

 

Matthew 5:32 & 19:9 Jesus said: Who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery.

 

Matthew 19:12 Jesus said: Some are incapable of marriage because they are born so.

 

John 21:20-22 Peter saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved, who had reclined on His chest during the supper. Peter ask Jesus: Lord, what about him? Jesus said: What if I want him to remain until I come? What concern is it of yours? You follow Me. Catholic

 

There are a few places in the book of John that mentions the disciple whom Jesus loved. Many scholars won’t go in depth on Jesus’ relationship with this disciple.

 

Luke 20:46-47 Jesus said: Be on guard against the scribes (clergy) in long robes who love greetings and seats of honor at banquets. They devour the houses of widows and as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.

 

Do you think that any faith-peddling TV evangelists ever did anything like that?

 

Often, when people proclaim something to be the truth, they are stating only what they are committed to. Sometimes, their truth is frustrating as it has nothing to do with any facts concerning the topic. Their truth amounts to their competing for an agenda more to their liking. Facts, they don’t like, seem unimportant and are easily dismissed or lied about.

 

When most think of the Commandments, they think of The 10 Commandments. Agreed?

 

Matthew 19:17-19 Jesus alluded to keep the Commandments. One asked: Which ones? Jesus included: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Again in Matthew 22:39 & Mark 12:31)

 

That is not one of God’s, most important, finger written, 10 commandments.

 

Matthew 21:1-7 Jesus sent 2 disciples to get an ass and a colt. They did and Jesus sat upon them. Jesus told them: If anyone should say anything to you, reply: The Master has need of them.

 

How could just one Jesus sit on two animals, an ass and a colt? My God, a miracle! Was this procurement outright theft? Don’t all thieves feel they have needs and assume that they are somehow entitled to the property of others? Did Jesus teach many in prison well?

 

Matthew 21:22 Jesus said: Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.

 

Do thieves pray with faith? If God answers every prayer, isn’t the answer mostly NO?

 

I Samuel 2:2 God judges deeds. (Works?)

 

What? Who? God doesn’t judge faith? And, didn’t God give Jesus the judgment?

 

Matthew 21:31 Jesus said: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering Heaven before you. 

 

If prostitutes do get into Heaven, is it no wonder that the wise young State of Nevada has legal prostitution? That state loves the tax revenues that many husbands and fathers and a few fun-loving ladies provide it. Are prostitution and gambling against federal laws? Yes? No?

 

Luke 21:33 Jesus said: Heaven and Earth shall pass away. KJV

 

II Peter 3:10 &12 The Heaven shall pass away and Heaven dissolved in flames.

 

Believers always express their fear of the end of the world. Did you ever consider the end of Heaven, too? What invention can one come up with to explain this? Could it be that The Biblical Heaven is a myth that is simply hoped for? Heaven’s own source states it exists, but will pass away. Some pretend that Heaven exists within numerous dimensions outside of science, time and reason. Can we prove it with evidence? Could eternity simply be the absence of conscious time, for without time how can there be a sense of conscience, or vice versa?

 

Revelation 12:7 There was war in Heaven.

 

What? There’s war in Heaven? What other horrors are there in Heaven? Pain? Suffering?

 

Luke 22:31-33 Jesus told Peter that He (Jesus) prayed for (Peter’s) faith not to fail…

 

Luke 22:57-62 But, after Jesus’ trial, Peter did deny knowing Jesus three (3) times.

 

Do you know any Bible Chapter and Verse (C&V) contradictions?

 

Mark 14:66-72 contradicted John 13:38.

 

Mark 14:66-72 A maid of The High Priest saw Peter and said: You were with Jesus... Peter denied it. And the cock crowed. She saw Peter again and said he was "one of them" twice more. Peter denied it again twice more for a total of three times. Peter recalled that Jesus said to Peter: Before the cock crows 2 times (twice), you will deny Me 3 (three) times.

 

John 13:38 Jesus said to Peter: The cock will NOT crow before you deny Me three (3) times. (Contradiction)

 

Because the cock DID crow after the 1st denial in Mark 14:68, these 2 C&V details cannot be both correct - which means they DO contradict each other. Here is solid evidence that the Bible misquoted Jesus either in Mark 14:68 or in John 13:38. Ergo, the Holy Bible is fallible, faulty, contains errors and cannot be strictly dependent upon. 

 

Believer: It's a minor and an insignificant contradiction and error. It doesn't matter.

 

GWD: It does matter - if the Bible's integrity matters. Minor and insignificant or not, the Bible, after all these years and editing, still contains this contradiction and error.

 

If God were Jesus, and Jesus were God, why would God need to pray? Here is evidence that even Jesus’ prayers were not fulfilled. Are we more special than Jesus? Based on this example, what chance do we have with prayer?

 

Faith: To act upon hope as if it were an assumed success, already accomplished, a done deal. Faith is the soul of “positive thinking” and often the birth of disappointment.

 

To have faith: To assume that you have been chosen, favored, entitled and accomplished.

 

Belief: Assumed, pretended knowledge.

 

Truth: A point of view, based mostly on feelings, that presumes to be factual.

 

Matthew 10:15 Luke & 10:12 Jesus said: It will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for that town.

 

Does that mean although Sodom was judged and destroyed by God, your town can be in greater peril? Did the Sodomites have salvation, according to this verse?

 

Matthew 24:34 Jesus said: This generation won’t pass away until all these things take place. 

 

Do any Catholics have any provable evidence that any of that generation are alive today?

 

Matthew 25:41 Jesus said: Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels.

 

Did Jesus tell these people that they were cursed and to go to Hell?

 

When we successfully exchanged false beliefs for facts, don’t we achieved awareness? Facts without awareness are useless. Did Judas have any choice in becoming a traitor to Jesus? If God predestines and does it all, what does any “Satan role” consist of? Maybe Satan is just a brand or label that some apologists put on anyone who speaks out against, criticizes or questions the Biblical God, or them.

 

Blasphemy: Some use blasphemy to brand and label people as a censoring tool. Some believers are committed to things they don’t know. Some can’t handle exposed facts so they tend to blackmail into censorship non-believers who question their faith.

 

Mark 10:29-30 Jesus said: There is no one who has given up everything for Me who won’t receive a hundred times more now in this present age.

 

This must be one of the bribery passages that Jim Jones, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, and like ilk, constantly lay on believers for their money. And some still buy into it!

 

Next: One King James Version of Luke 17 is headed: The lesson of Sodom:

 

Luke 17:34 Jesus said: I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken and the other shall be left. KJV

 

Luke 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; one shall be taken, the other left.

 

What? How could kids interpret this? I’m speechless.

 

  

Dr. William R. Jones, Jr. “The Bethany Hour”: Faith is something, you have it or you don’t have it. When faith is operative, then you believe what you cannot prove, you see the invisible, you trust the unknowable and you even embrace the illogical. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

 

Dr. Jones is a black televangelist who has a remarkable baritone voice and when he talks, he’s one of the best in saying something of substance. Thank you Dr. Jones. GWD

 

 

The Holman Bible Dictionary: Sacrifice is food and drink for the gods to satisfy what they need. In return, forgiveness is assumed.

 

Sacraments: The sacraments are a bizarre concept that a reward for eternal life is in the eating of human flesh and the drinking of human blood. It is a wonder, that with the still primitive mental mechanism of man, there isn’t more cannibalism in the world in pursuit of blood sacrifice for salvation. Some primitive rituals practiced today may still influence dangerous behavior for the less than mentally / emotionally stable.

 

Do men put themselves in a God’s role by pretending to drink Jesus’ blood and eat his flesh to satisfy their mythical salvation needs? When objectively evaluated, it comes across as a pretty sick scenario.

 

Is religion an art and God but an art-form within the agenda of a con-artist? Fear, based on ignorance, is used to motivate obedience, conformity, exploitation and the sacrifice of innocent, ignorant people.

 

These works are designed to expose, by evidence, cruel social manipulations and human vulnerabilities. They are designed to expose facts. Is this agenda to draw believers? NO! You are the only thinker in your entire universe. You can think for yourself. Some fear that change will disrupt their order. Well, consider the law and order experienced for the past 2,000 years through the guidance and the models illustrated by this Biblical God.

 

Was Jesus Really Ready To Fulfill His Destiny?

 

Matthew 26:37-39 Jesus began to feel sorrow and distress. He said: My soul is sorrowful even to death. My Father, if possible, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME. KJV

 

Jesus said this three (3) different times. At this point, it doesn’t sound much like Jesus is very interested in dying for His fellow man, or for the fulfillment of anything. C. Dennis McKinsey

 

Luke 22:43 To strengthen Jesus, an angel from Heaven appeared to Him.

 

Now, somehow that’s cheating. Most humans don’t report getting that strengthening courtesy just hours before their death. Maybe it’s the physician in Dr. Luke talking.

 

Luke 22:44 Jesus was in such agony and He prayed so fervently that His sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground.

 

Luke 12:4 Jesus said: Be not afraid of them that kill the body…

 

Isn't this another controversial conflict? Isn't Jesus again saying: Do as I say, not as I do? Wasn’t Jesus really sweating it? Haven’t mere humans faced death braver than in this description?

 

Conversely, if Jesus wanted what was about to happen, wasn’t His act a form of suicide? So, should suicide be ok, if only in this case, within the believers' value systems?

 

If Jesus could opt out of His flesh body into His "Transfigured Body" at will, Jesus may not have experienced the pain His flesh body would have endured on the cross. See: "Jesus' Transfigured Body" 

 

Bill Moyers, author of his great book Genesis: "God actually put His son on the cross to bleed in agony for other people. This is a God who would save us by doing that to a human being?"

 

Matthew 27:46 Jesus said: My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? KJV

 

Well, so much for Bible credibility and not for all the obvious reasons. As much as our hearts tug with pain due to Jesus’ suffering death, it tends to shock and anger some that Matthew 27:46 is more evidence that it is staged. These words, verbalized by Jesus during His painful death-throws, were verbatim to Biblical words written a thousand years earlier, by King David. This is exhibited, as evidence, in The King James Version of:

 

Psalm 22:1 My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me? A little m for me as it was David, not Jesus, depicted in Psalm 22:1. It is evident that many things have been “borrowed” after the fact from many pagan religions to make up the composite character of Jesus Christ and this is evidence of one of the greatest adoptions. Did Jesus, a God, during His death-struggle, quote these already written words, or were His words applied, after the fact, by Biblical Old Testament plagiarism? If this is but plagiarism, how much more of the life of Jesus Christ was but a composite plagiarism of other religious heroes?

 

Luke 23:46 Jesus cried out: Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit and breathed His last.

 

Psalm 31:5 Into Thine hands I commend my spirit. KJV

 

Jesus does not prove to be a descendent of King David - but a mere composite of David’s poetry in Psalms. Did these Gospel writers make up Jesus and put words in His mouth in a guise to fulfill prophesy? T. S. Eliot claimed that bad poets borrow but good poets steal.

 

Dennis McKinsey e-mailed me that it was Jesus’ Divinity that took a hit.

 

Matthew 27:52-53 When Jesus died by crucifixion, tombs were opened and the bodies of many dead saints raised forth from their tombs, entered the city and appeared to many. 

 

Is Matthew credible? No history bearing nation: Rome, Israel, Egypt etc. nor Mark, Luke, John, Paul (nor Ringo) bothered to make such a claim. If that had really happened, would it not be worth mentioning by at least one of the other Gospel or New Testament writers? Either Matthew took extraordinary or zealous literary license, or he had a sense of humor. Maybe, he got so excited he forgot to take his medication.

 

Job 7:9 He that goes down to the grave comes up no more.

 

Oh, what to believe?

 

Luke 24: 41-43 (After Jesus’ resurrection) Jesus appeared to His disciples and asked them: Have you anything here to eat? They gave Him a piece of baked fish; He took it and ate it in front of them.

 

Matthew 28:20 The resurrected Jesus said: And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.

 

The end of anything is not always. C. Dennis McKinsey

 

Idolatry: (Dictionary)

 

1. The worship of idols.

 

Do crosses and people on them qualify?

 

2. Excess devotion or reverence for some person or thing.

 

Does Jesus qualify?

 

John 7:34 Jesus said: You will seek Me and shall not find Me; and, where I am, you can not come.

 

Jesus often explained Himself and His values by speaking parables. He spoke of fictitious characters to represent Himself and describe His points. Did Jesus speak of a fictitious God in the same manner?

 

 

If God has planned and pre-destined our moment of death and all the “evil” things we do or that are done to us; then, what is the role or purpose for any Satan or devil? GWD

 

Luke 19:27 Jesus said (in a parable): Now as for those enemies of Mine who did not want Me to be their King, bring them here and slay them before Me. Catholic

 

Does Jesus depict He wants those murdered who won’t allow Him to reign over them? So what if it was a parable? Wasn’t it Jesus Who said these words that will not go away?

 

Revelation 2:18-23 The Son of God (Jesus) condemns a harlot for not repenting. (The same character, Jesus then said): I will also put her children to death.

 

I personally really don’t care if this is a spiritual (fantasy) or literal passage. Don’t these passages qualify Jesus as a violent and cruel and a murderous figure? Jesus was a dreamer who may have sold some dreams and obviously some nightmares. If it were not for ego and hope, most clergy and therapists would probably be out of their con-jobs?

 

"Is eternal death not a happier prospect than eternal existence if one can be tormented for eternity or have to be a slave to a tyrannical God for eternity?" Anonymous

 

Hosea 1:2 God said to Hosea: Go take a harlot for a wife.

 

God actually tells His prophet, Hosea, to take a hooker, prostitute, whore, harlot for his wife? What kind of model or message is God sending your son - or your daughter?

 

Luke 10:16 Jesus equates: To reject or despise Him is to reject or despise God.

 

How many clergy have also said: To reject them was to reject God?

 

 

John 13:23-25 One of His disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side, leaned back against Jesus’ chest.

 

John 19:26 (On the cross): When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved, He said to His mother: Woman, behold your son. Then He said to the disciple (He loved): Behold your mother. The disciple took her into his home.

 

Are the answers to these questions the facts?

 

Who said: No one can take My sheep out of My hand?

 

Who said: I came not to send peace but the sword, father against son, daughter against mother?

 

Who said: He that has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one?

 

Who will rule over the house of Jacob, forever?

 

Who said: Whoever loves his mother etc. more than Me is not worthy of Me?

 

Who said: I have come to set the Earth on fire. How I wish it were already blazing?

Who said: Children will rise up against their parents and put them to death?

Who said: Without hating his mother etc. - he cannot be My disciple?

 

Who said to his mother: Woman, how does your concern affect Me?

 

Who said: Whoever believes - serpents and drinking poison will not harm them?

 

Who said: Friend, who appointed Me as your judge?

 

Who said: Sell your belongings and give alms?

 

Who said: Who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be My disciple.

 

Who was at meal in His house?

 

Who said that He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel?

 

Who said: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering heaven before you?

 

Who said: Heaven will pass away?

 

Who said: This generation will not pass away until all these things take place?

 

Who said: Let this cup pass from Me three (3) different times?

 

Who said: My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?

 

Who died, tombs opened, dead bodies raised and appeared to many? 

 

Where is "The Virgin Mary’s" husband, Joseph? Dead? Divorced? What? Nobody cares?

The disciple, whom Jesus loved, could be Andrew’s brother, John; as none of Jesus’ brothers were His disciples. Jesus’ brother James did assume control over the church in Jerusalem after Jesus was crucified. Later, James and his crowd were wiped out. Behold, your mother cannot be literal. Also, a must requirement for discipleship was found in:

 

Luke 14:33: Everyone had to give up everything they owned to follow Jesus.

 

So, John could not have had a home of his own to take Jesus’ mother into.

 

Matthew 27:5 Judas (Iscariot, Jesus’ betrayer) went off and hanged himself.

 

Is this another Biblical conflict or contradiction?

 

Acts 1:18 Judas, falling headlong, burst open and his guts gushed out.

 

Jesus died for our sins: In any value system, how can justice be served by executing an innocent man for the crimes or sins of others? If we support this doctrine and its God, we support that. Would anyone volunteer his or her child for Jeffery Dahlmer’s crimes? Don’t we support a God who wants vengeance and doesn’t care who pays the price?

 

 

A Translation Argument:

 

One great argument between Biblical authorities and us poor, Biblically illiterate is:

 

Many of the clergy and the assumed elect manipulate the English Bible’s words by stating they don’t say what the original texts say. They refer back to the original Greek, Aramaic or Hebrew to establish authority over what is “God’s word”.

 

Some assumed elect (preachers) argue for authority, control and power by stating:

 

Preacher: You are reading the English versions and don’t know what the Bible really says or means. You are Biblically illiterate. I will tell you what the Bible means. Convert, conform, obey and send money!

 

If what is written in English is not what the Bible means, then they (those assumed elect) must be admitting that our English-written Bible is inaccurate and poorly written; thus flawed. Personally, I only speak and read English. It is the Catholic “easy English” version that I am most able to grasp and mostly take issue with. I do struggle through the King James Version, too. Often, one version is more controversial than the other version is. If it’s not in English, I don’t care about it.

 

Many see only the good things and ignore or avoid the negative things the Bible holds.

 

Declaration:

 

If I am wrong about most of these Biblical passages that I have selected to comment on, I am a fool. But, if I am accurate, I have learned much, and dared to share it.

 

I did not write the Bible. I am not responsible for what the Bible says. I, like you, am not responsible for how others feel about what the Bible says. I, you, and all Americans, have our Constitutional right, by law, to question and express our opinions on any and all writings.

 

This work is bound to have errors. If anyone finds an error, please contact us and if proven, I promise it will be corrected and I will definitely thank you so much.

 

Gary W. DeVaney

 

 

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