Would Jesus Discriminate?

Ellie at Child's Illusion posted "Would Jesus Discriminate" about that same website.

I visited there and found the video and other pages to be worthwhile. Years ago, there was a popular saying, ""What would Jesus Do?" and this seems to resonate with that somewhat trite aphorism in asking, "Would Jesus discriminate?" I don't think so!

Here is a passage from the introduction:

Would you give me three minutes of your time to consider three critical questions?

First, as we look back over history, do you think we Christians have ever been wrong on important theological issues? Of course, we know the answer is “yes!” Classic examples include:

• Supporting slavery
• Opposing the right of women to vote
• Opposing interracial marriage
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The sad truth is, for hundreds of years the vast majority of Christians were on the wrong side of each of those issues. And people who took the other side were accused of being unbiblical -- and of trying to overthrow God’s natural creation order.

Which brings me to my second question: How is it possible that so many Christians could have been so wrong? Clearly, the Bible didn’t change. The problem was, they allowed deeply ingrained cultural prejudices to distort their interpretation of the Bible on these key issues.

It’s not hard to see how that happened. For all of human history, slavery had been an established institution. It seemed to be part of God’s natural order. For all of human history, women had been denied the right to vote. That just seemed part of God’s creation.

Today, we realize how wrong we were, and pray we will never make that kind of mistake again.

Which leads to my last question: Is it possible that history is repeating itself? Could most Christians be wrong today when they say God condemns homosexual relationships?

Like Ellie, I highly recommend this site. Explore it sometime!

Now watch this 30 second video: