In our present time, the issue on which the Church stands or falls is racism:
Christians affirm that it is morally permissible — even good — and non-Christians confess that it is a sin (in their religion).
In our present time, the issue on which the Church stands or falls is racism:
Christians affirm that it is morally permissible — even good — and non-Christians confess that it is a sin (in their religion).
Philemon would have been entirely within his rights to have Onesimus executed, and doing so would not have been a sin.