Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
I really don't see how this book is any less valid than the Torah, New Testament, or Quran. The authors of those books claimed they were divinely inspired and that was good enough for billions of people to accept them as so. What's the difference here?
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
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Originally Posted by DonDadda59
I really don't see how this book is any less valid than the Torah, New Testament, or Quran. The authors of those books claimed they were divinely inspired and that was good enough for billions of people to accept them as so. What's the difference here?
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
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Same could be said about the OT, NT, and Quran.
Bringing salvation to the Gentiles is more like anti-racist.
"And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation."
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
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Originally Posted by TennesseeFan
Historic invalidity and racial bias.
Pretty much every religious text is historically invalid, and suffers from racial, ethnic, sexist, and xeno biases. And before you mention Buddhist and Hindu texts as not having them, they do.
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
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Pretty much every religious text is historically invalid, and suffers from racial, ethnic, sexist, and xeno biases. And before you mention Buddhist and Hindu texts as not having them, they do.
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
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Originally Posted by TennesseeFan
Non-religious opinion is an opinion?
Non-religious opinion is fact.
If you are just going to use the fact that The Holy Tablets place one group as the center of a cosmology as a means to dismiss it's validity, you will have to do the same about all religious texts that purport to be the truth and first revealed The Good News to a select few.
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Originally Posted by Dasher
Pretty much every religious text is historically invalid, and suffers from racial, ethnic, sexist, and xeno biases. And before you mention Buddhist and Hindu texts as not having them, they do.
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Originally Posted by TennesseeFan
Bringing salvation to the Gentiles is more like anti-racist.
"And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation."
-Revelation 5:9
"The Koran Has not Changed the World, Nor Has the Torah or the New Testament. They have Done Nothing for us the Nubians but were Used to Enslave Us"
I thought that was an interesting point by whoever wrote the intro to the book. I never understood how Black people could adhere to and practice what (to them) amounts to nothing more than a slave religion that was used to placate them and make them docile while colonial powers raped, pillaged, and enslaved. Preachers in the South used to use scripture to defend slavery during the Antebellum period:
"A student is not greater than the teacher. A slave is not greater than the master." (Matthew 10:24)
"Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh." (Peter 2:18)
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord." (Colossians 3:22)
And that's just some examples from the NT, the OT is littered with verses that propagate and justify slavery.
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
You obviously do not know anything about slavery 2,000 years ago. It was different then.
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And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.
-Ephesians 6:9
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Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.
-Colossians 4:1
Slaves then equate to what you would call a servant. Most of the time, its translated into "servant" instead of "slave" because of the general ignorance that people have when they read "slave". Generally, they had nobility in Colossae and Ephesus, and that is what it is regarded to. In modern day America, people use this as a comparison to a worker and a boss, how a worker should submit to his boss, and how a boss should treat his worker fairly. The Bible is not encouraging slavery, but encouraging masters to treat their slaves fairly. Paul alludes in some passages, that the real master is Christ, and we are slaves to Christ, in which we are all enslaved to something. Yet, being enslaved to Christ is true freedom.
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Originally Posted by TennesseeFan
You obviously do not know anything about slavery 2,000 years ago. It was different then.
How was it different exactly? One nation/group defeated another in battle, took their wealth and resources and then brought their people back to their country in chains and sold them in markets as if they were nothing more than merchandise.
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Slaves then equate to what you would call a servant. Most of the time, its translated into "servant" instead of "slave" because of the general ignorance that people have when they read "slave". Generally, they had nobility in Colossae and Ephesus, and that is what it is regarded to. In modern day America, people use this as a comparison to a worker and a boss, how a worker should submit to his boss, and how a boss should treat his worker fairly. The Bible is not encouraging slavery, but encouraging masters to treat their slaves fairly. Paul alludes in some passages, that the real master is Christ, and we are slaves to Christ, in which we are all enslaved to something. Yet, being enslaved to Christ is true freedom.
It's translated into 'servant' because the modern editors of the bible want to trick people such as yourself into thinking that the slaves were paid help.
"Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. You can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly." (Leviticus 25:44-46)
So it was ok to take/buy/sell 'servants' from other countries and have them as your property and your children could inherit them as their property, as long as you were an Israelite it was ordained by the LORD.
Re: The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
That is from Leviticus, do you have any idea how big of a change there was from the Torah and from the NT? Leviticus also tells us to stone sorcerers, but the New Covenant tells us "whoever is sinless throw the first stone". We are not bound by the Law anymore, but we are bound by Love.
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Originally Posted by TennesseeFan
That is from Leviticus, do you have any idea how big of a change there was from the Torah and from the NT? Leviticus also tells us to stone sorcerers, but the New Covenant tells us "whoever is sinless throw the first stone". We are not bound by the Law anymore, but we are bound by Love.
Apparently not. I guess the time between the writing of the OT and the NT was when slaves became servants, huh?
The Holy Tablets aka The Black Supremacist Bible
