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[quote=Anonymous]It’s interesting to me as a Christian that so much of this thread devolves into Jesus as a moral teacher when that was not the purpose of his time on earth at all.

For sure, yes, Jesus gave moral teachings.

But if that’s all you get out of Christianity, you have missed the boat.  It’s like saying football games should be judged on the number of running plays.

Here is the true point of Jesus: we are all sinners.  Sin becomes aggravated in different people in different ways and scale — but the core problem of the heart is the same.   Priests have way more in common with prostitutes than we typically like to recognize.  Slaveowners might have a particularly awful type of sin, but it is the same sinful nature that everybody has.  It is just a different form of idolatry — power, greed.   It is not putting God first in your heart.

Jesus did not come to give everyone a bunch of moral teachings so they could clean up their acts and live their lives better.   He came to be a savior for all who have sinned.   And we do not become saved because of our own acts now, but through our faith in him.   Once we have that faith, we repent and live a more Christ-like life because we so appreciative of what He has done for us.   We obey out of an overflow of our heart and because we have been saved — we don’t obey to be saved.   The motivational structure of the heart completely changes.

Ironically, looking at life this way makes you both humble and confident.   Humble because when you realize everyone is a sinner saved by grace, you don feel superior to anyone else.   You are not self-righteous anymore.   And confident because no matter what happens in life, the creator of the universe sees you to the bottom and loves you to the sky.   He loves you so much in fact that he was willing to die for you even when you didn’t love him.  Who cares what your boss or anyone else in this world thinks of you when you have that?

You can say you don’t agree with any of this and that’s fine — but this is what Christianity is actually about.   It is NOT about just following a bunch of rules or Jesus as a moral teacher about a topic such as slavery.    If that’s all you have for Jesus, then you are missing the point of his life and should just ignore him all together.

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