Would Christ Have Enslaved Africans? A Christian Response to Slavery and Christliness

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Would Christ Have Enslaved Africans?

A theological reflection

asking whether slavery can ever be Christly.

An examination of Christ and judgment,

of wheat and tares,

and of why slavery stands

in contradiction

to authentic Christianity.

Thank you for this https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17fp1iXx7p/ @Husman.Very educative. Here are my thoughts:

The Question That Will Not Go Away: Would Christ have enslaved Africans?

Question: Do you honestly believe that Christ would have packed Africans into ships like sardines, transported them to the New World - sold them to men more brutal than Himself?

Stood by and watched as unspeakable atrocities were committed against these stolen people - and their descendants for the next four hundred years?

Do you believe that Christ, being omniscient — knowing exactly how this would unfold — would stand back approvingly and say, “And I saw that it was good”?

From the bottom of your heart, do you believe that Christ would have enslaved Africans?

I know the answer.
Because I know that you know the answer.

And if you do know the answer, then why bear false witness against Christianity?

Let me explain.

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On Christliness

There have always been opponents of Christliness — that is, of being like Christ.
The reason is straightforward: Christliness makes no sense to the natural human mind. It never has.

The core of Christianity is a paradox: God born of His own creature.

From the very beginning, it is an anomaly. And while anomalies threaten human systems of order, they pose an even greater threat to what Scripture calls principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places.

If the Pharisees and Sadducees tore their garments at the mere possibility that Christ might be who He claimed to be, imagine the hostility in the spiritual realm toward Christliness itself.

This matters because opposition to Christliness exists precisely because Christliness threatens the powers that thrive on darkness. If one wished to oppose Christ, the first strategy would be to sow doubt — to associate Christ with evil, hypocrisy, or cruelty.

That is not new.

Christianity has faced this from the time of Judas Iscariot to the present day. The technical term for it is Anti-Christianity, and it has always been with us.

A question is worth asking here:

Why is there no sustained Anti-Buddha movement?
No Anti-Confucius?
No Anti-Judaism?
No Anti-Islam?

Why is Christianity consistently the target of empires, institutions, and cultural campaigns?

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How Jesus Addresses Error and Corruption

Now consider how Jesus Himself addresses error and corruption.

Judaism historically executed heretics.
Islam still does in some places today.

Jesus does neither.

Instead, He tells the parable of the wheat and the tares.

A farmer sows good seed (wheat) in his field. While everyone sleeps, an enemy comes and sows weeds among the wheat. When the plants grow, the servants notice the weeds and ask if they should pull them out.

The farmer says no — if they uproot the weeds now, they may destroy the wheat as well. Instead, both are allowed to grow together until harvest time. At harvest, the weeds will be gathered first and burned, and the wheat gathered into the barn.

Premature judgment, He teaches, risks destroying the righteous along with the wicked.
Final judgment belongs to God alone, and it will be perfectly just.

The point is not that evil is acceptable, but that human beings are not competent judges of hearts or destinies.

Patience is not weakness.
Tolerance is not approval.
Judgment is delayed — not denied.

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What This Reveals About Christliness

This tells us something essential about Christliness: it does not change with circumstances. It does not take vacations. It is either Christly, or it is not.

Any un-Christliness that appears within the visible Church is not evidence against Christ, but evidence of tares sown by the enemy.

In the parable:

• The field is the world

• The good seed are the children of the Kingdom

• The tares are the children of the evil one

• The enemy is the devil

• The harvest is the end of the age

• The harvesters are the angels

And the farmer is Jesus Christ Himself.

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Returning to Slavery

So we return to the question of slavery.

Those who came to Africa holding crosses while kidnapping human beings — were their actions Christly?

You already know the answer.

Slavery was not an expression of Christianity.
It was an expression of opposition to Christliness, even when cloaked in Christian language and symbols.

Scripture itself warns us that false apostles can disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.

If you already agree with this, then there is nothing more to argue.

Thank you Husman for the thought-provoking posts. Truly appreciated and I hope that I have done credit to the one that I truly love with all my heart!

You can LOVE Him too...

Don Kenobi

#MyFrancisEssays #Christliness | #ChristianityAndSlavery

#WhatWouldJesusDo | #FalseChristianity |#ParableOfTheTares

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