I don’t know homegirl! I think it takes time. I once gave an analogy that when we come to Christianity we have our bags packed full of others opinions and then we begin to slowly unpack those and put in our own through our experience and our own hard work of studying. Each person is different and should just keep studying and learning with an open mind and ear to hear and discern. That is as much as I can tell you

From Indians, to women, to skin complexion…. you name it! And again if they were wrong on these things why not others? Semper Reformenda!

Don’t even get me started about the curse on Canaan and its mistranslation to not only excuse, but to sanction slavery.

God is sovereign for sure, people of their own volition sin under the sovereignty of God, and they are responsible for their own sin and will answer for it.

Saying that slavery was God’s will because it happened under His sovereignty is the same as saying that committing adultery is God’s will or that beating your child is God’s will or that lying is God’s will or that kidnapping is God’s will or that rape is God’s will because these sins occur under His sovereignty.

No, those who participated in the slave trade and who owned slaves who never evidenced true remorse and repentance for their sin put forth good proof that they did not have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit to convict them of their sin.

We do have good examples of men involved in the evil practice of slavery who after coming to Christ lived a life in keeping with repentance unto salvation by bearing fruit of righteousness by renouncing slavery and freeing their captives.

Proof positive that being a learned theologian is not the same as being born again.

I have often told congregations that, “we have never done things that way” or, to quote you, “that is the way it has always been done”, are the famous last words of a group calling themselves church.

They are the death rattle!