[mockingbyrd]

Keeping a race enslaved is not the same as manipulating the word of God. Especially after that Word came and promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail against His Church. God did provide a way, and always has and always will.

[ScubieNuc]

Keeping a race enslaved is not the same as manipulating the word of God.

I recommend rereading about the Pharisees and Religious leaders of Jesus's day. They did enslave the people BY manipulating the Word of God. Here's a small taste of what Jesus has to say about them....

Matt. 23:29-34 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and [some] of them ye shall kill and crucify; and [some] of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute [them] from city to city:

Sincerely