<center>[color:purple]This discussion was moved to its own thread!</font color=purple> - Pilgrim</center><br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Unfortunately the Constitution is an imperfect document. The most serious imperfections in the national Constitution are the absence of any direct reference to God and its failure to condemn slavery.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>(Fred) I would agree with what you stated about the constitution in general, that it is not a perfect document and it is a pity Christians in our society carry on about it as if it is some sort of final authority in moral matters.<br>At any rate, I wanted to point out that neither does the Bible directly condemn slavery. It condemns man-stealing, at least for the people of Israel, and though I believe that it is not in God's character to condone slavery as an accepted practice, by Paul's words in Ephesians, Colossians and most notably Philemon, it does appear as though it was allowable for God's purposes. I think we have kicked this discussion around on previous posts, but anyone want to add some comments about that?<br><br>Fred

Last edited by Pilgrim; Wed Nov 19, 2003 2:32 PM.
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