Note to Tim Keller: The Bible Does Not Support America’s Collective Guilt on Slavery

PJ Media ^ | Jan 16, 2018 | D.C. McAllister

[slumber1]

Keller should familiarize himself with scripture

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself Ezek 18:20

[familyop]

White people in the U.S.A. ended slavery.

[familyop]

Consider the demographics of those who are presiding over human trafficking. They are guilty of slavery today, and most of them are descended very recently from foreign cultures.

[grey_whiskers]

From this, Keller concludes that an entire society can be found responsible for and guilty of past sins committed by that culture...

OK, lets make American Indians pay reparations for lung cancer due to tobacco...

"All your casino are belong to us." /sarc>

[grey_whiskers]

Don’t visit the sins of the father on his children.

Exactly. Think of Luke and Leia.../sarc>

[Pelham]

“That too - either Christ took our sins and put them away ‘as far as the east is from the West’ Or he didn’t. “

Social Gospel crowd doesn’t want to hear that. You’re spoiling their game.

[Pelham]

My first ancestors landed at Jamestown in 1609. I have some that hunted and killed Indians after the Massacre of 1622 when the Powhattans slaughtered a quarter of the English settlers.

I have some ancestors who owned slaves. Never on a scale like their neighbor Thomas Jefferson, or their neighbor Andrew Jackson. Not wealthy enough.

I have a dozen ancestors who fought in the Revolution. Most militia, some Continentals.

I have only one close ancestor who fought in the Civil War. Army of Northern Virginia, 13th Mississippi, Barksdale’s Brigade. He was killed at Gettysburg and buried in the field, by the peach orchard.

My family history is the history of the United States, and I don’t feel guilt or remorse for any of it. I’ll leave that to foolishness to others.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Never heard of this guy, but you’re right this kind of thinking is growing in the church. I left the SBC because they kept apologizing for the past. Meanwhile memberships and baptisms decline.

The church in America could do so much, but it keeps revisiting the past. Meanwhile the church in oppressed countries appears to be growing.

[ViLaLuz]

I’m more concerned with present day slavery and human trafficking.

[stevem]

This ideology is really creeping into churches now.

It has been as far back as my high school days, maybe farther. Next week we are holding our 50 year reunion.

This is only the latest manifestation.