[Consider this: Slavery is now officially/technically illegal in every country ]
Who was changing the heart of the pre-civilwar xian South?
Or Serbia, or Saudi Arabia — or any of the other plethora of cultures where human trafficking is very much alive, despite their alleged adherence to whatever the religious doctrine dejure happens to be.
Furthermore, seems to me that man-made religious concoctions are among the “created things” the Creator furrows his brow enough over that, as per Romans 1:25+, “because of this, God gave them over”.
Seems maybe you’ve confused religion for the spirituality manifested between the Individual and their gracious Creator.
NO SALE
I'm sure there were people working on it. Or, do you maintain that the civil war was a must to abolish slavery?
Moreover, if you do, how do you explain the British eliminating slavery w/o civil war?
Or Serbia, or Saudi Arabia — or any of the other plethora of cultures where human trafficking is very much alive, despite their alleged adherence to whatever the religious doctrine dejure happens to be.
Yes, that's why I said technically illegal. And what you cite is much more indicative of a heart issue; I never said that God's kingdom had completely displaced things here, but it will: eventually.
Furthermore, seems to me that man-made religious concoctions are among the “created things” the Creator furrows his brow enough over that, as per Romans 1:25+, “because of this, God gave them over”.
Now, now God's revealed what real, acceptable religion is: Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
(James 1:27)
Seems maybe you’ve confused religion for the spirituality manifested between the Individual and their gracious Creator.
No, I was pointing out that the result of God's influence in the world [through his church and spirit] is that slavery-as-an-institution is dead. Or would you care to show where, as an institution, it thrives in the open?