Preaching to the choir on this one, FRiend.
If your grandfather committed a crime and owed the victim reparations which went unpaid, are you responsible for paying them?
Our system of justice is not based on collective guilt or collective punishment. We are judged on our individual actions.
The only inherited guilt we all have descends from Adam.
All have sinned and fallen short. All need Jesus’s salvation. All need repentance. All need to walk with God.
No one will avoid his sins because of who he is.
‘Pod.
Reparations in perpetuity is the desire. Just once won’t do.
ping
Reparations? Okay, let’s do it. Give them each a few thou and make them sign a paper that this satisfies the obligation. Oh yes, they will sign.
Then buy stock in Wal-Mart. You’ll have it all back inside two weeks.
Christianity is all about forgiveness; not resentment. Forgiveness is freedom; walking free in Christ’s love out from the darkness of injustice and evil.
Tribal revenge, resentment and hatred is sin; walking in the opposite of Christ - evil. You can tell by the fruit born through forgiveness - peace, prosperity and love - versus that born by tribalism - war, poverty and hate on an individual and societal level.
I believe if Jesus were here, He would ask the black community “Do you want to be well?”
It’s time to forgive and forget. The black churches should have started preaching forgiveness in April of 1865.
As for reparations, 620,000 white men died to free the slaves, and the American people have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, and housing and schools. If that isn’t enough, then the problem is really one of revenge and greed.
Reparations have already been paid in the form of BLOOD SACRIFICE. Seven hundred thousand lives on the altar. Then there is also tens of thousands of arms, legs, eyes, broken families, destroyed lively hoods.
When all put together there was probably one sacrifice for each slave freed.
Sounds like reparations for slavery to me.
It is really much simpler than all of that. Those who never owned slaves should not have to pat reparations to those who were never slaves.
If you take something of value from someone, then that is stealing. Holding a person as a slave would be theft amongst other cremes. Crimes would be punished. One way to punch a crime is to make the criminal pay damages to the victim.I think there is something about that somewhere in the good book.
I believe the county has “paid” for slavery with the civil war, civil rights legislation, and affirmative action and the great society. I believe no one in the US today is a “victim” of slavery. Therefore no reparations are warranted. But you basic point about no biblical foundation is incorrect IMO.
My secretary’s family had their farm taken away because they were Amercians of Japanese descent. After the war they didn’t get the farm back. When three of them got 30,000 apiece in the 80s, the land they used to own was worth 1.1 million. If we needed to inter the people and after the war they had done nothing wrong, their land should have been returned or they should have been compensated at full value. otherwise it was theft. Theft is prohibited in the bible.