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Interview: Keagan, an Agnostic Atheist (part 3)

For The King — Rocky Ramsey

Interview: Keagan, an Agnostic Atheist (part 3)

July 7, 2021
For The King
For The KingRocky Ramsey

Today, on the For The King podcast, I am joined with one of my good friends. Keagan and I met at college during our undergraduate careers and we soon became good friends doing lots of random things together. Today Keagan and I continue on our discussion of our worldviews, mainly talking about the problem of evil in the world and the evils that many people charge Christians with. This episode is more of a debate/dialogue than the first part of this interview. Tune in and hear Keagan espouse his beliefs and I mine. We both take time to defend our views and press each other on some of the points that we disagree with the other. Thank you for listening! Please check out Keagan's podcast!

Keagan's podcast : https://anchor.fm/keagan-bouwers

Resources:  

* https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/christian-slaves-and-masters/ 

* https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-slavery.html 

* https://emergencenj.org/blog/2019/01/04/does-the-bible-condone-slavery 

* https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-wrong-say-bible-pro-slavery/ 

* Listen until 10:40 -> https://open.spotify.com/episode/0f4qSd7UwRgQWnj1geEjly?si=5d9f6976805d4c9f 

Texts: 1 Timothy 1:8– 10, Exodus 21:16, Deuteronomy 15:12-15 

Slavery in the bible was voluntary and the slaves were to be such free under Mosaic law. Man-stealing was a crime punishable by death, a command unheard of in the ancient near east, yet the bible institutes such a law. This topic was touched on in another episode, "the uniqueness of America". 

Remember, the first society to every formally and universally outlaw slavery in legislation is the United States of America. This had nothing to do with our intelligence but EVERYTHING to do with us being a Christian nation. Atheism cannot be accounted for ever freeing any humans from any bondage ever.

Thanks for listening! 

Romans 6:16-23 “Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 

Website: forthekingpodcast.com Inquiries: forthekingpodcast@gmail.com

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