I brought up this question of Jesus not speaking against slavery, once before. I think it surprises people. More importantly, I wonder how history would have been altered if He had. What if it had been made a big taboo? What if the practice were never condoned? What if there were never slaves brought to America? Would we have had a Civil War?
Quite a bit off-topic. Maybe a subject for a thread one day.
205 - "I wonder how history would have been altered if He had. What if it had been made a big taboo? "
Interesting thought, and I am sure history would have turned out vastly differently.
IMO - Probably, there would have been no Christianity at all, as the Jews would have killed Jesus long before the Romans, if he were to have tried to free their slaves. But, Jesus was no dummy. Remember - "Render unto Caesar, the things which are Caesars."
I don't think he really wanted to die on the cross, but eventually sucumbed to the inevitability of it, because he disturbed too many 'rice bowls'.
Interestingly enough, I am a student of history, myself, following causes and effects. And in my personal life, in tracing events, I figured out that I met my wife, traveling in India, because I wore a pair of new fancy boots in Texas several years before, and it rained that day and I got them muddy.
I got into insurance adjusting for a while, and learned how to determine 'proximate cause'. Very interesting, to trace events and their causes. Sort of like "CSI", crime Scene Investigating.
"because he disturbed too many 'rice bowls'. "
Remember one specifically documented case, when he kicked the money lenders/changers out of the temple.
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