Month: August 2021

The Lutheran Study Bible actually corrects the (mis)translation of the ESV and notes that ἀνδραποδιστής means ‘kidnapper’, not merely ‘enslaver’:

»1:10 enslavers. Kidnappers, involved in illegal slave trade.«

‘Manstealing’, ‘enslaving’, and ‘slave dealing’ are distinct concepts — part of why we have distinct words to represent them; ἀνδραποδιστής is not properly translated ‘enslaver’ or ‘slave dealer’, but ‘manstealer’.

Honestly, if I had been asked to guess, I probably would have been able to say that Satan would split the Western Church over slavery (and related issues), because he has always hated authority, hierarchy, and order — and his children follow him.

The ‘moral’ condemnation of slavery inevitably leads to Egalitarianism and thence to apostasy.

To function properly, all parts of a body must be well and act in concert. Non-liturgical services are a broken foot.

When it comes to the moral question of slavery, there are two kinds of people:

Abolitionists and Christians.

The papist claim of infallibility is, in light of history, a sufficient refutation of the Romish system.

My neighbor is he who is near me. And, no, that verse doesn’t mean what you think it does. If you don’t know Greek, ask someone who does (and who isn’t an inveterate liar).

To call Rome “catholic” or the East “orthodox” is to abuse the terms.

The god of Democracy is Jörmungandr.