By Timothy
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See also:High Beam Research
Article: The origins of the Southern Baptist Convention:
a historiographical study:
the purpose of this paper is to describe how white Baptist church historians of the South
have interpreted the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention since 1845. www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-94160891.html
Article from: Baptist History and Heritage
Article date: January 1, 2002
Author: Shurden, Walter B.; Varnadoe, Lori Redwine Copyright
HighBeam® Research, a part of The Gale Group, Inc. © Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.
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SLAVERY AND THE CHURCHESwww.christianchronicler.com/history1/slavery_and_the_churches.htm
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Slavery led to what historians call "the second American Revolution." America divided along sectional, cultural and social lines
during the early 1800s. Controversy over slavery hit most American churches particularly hard. This material reviews background data
on slavery then shows how it affected America's development.
I. Beginnings of Slavery
America's first slaves, about 20 blacks, arrived in 1619 as "permanently indentured servants." As "indentured servants" the new residents
created little difficulty throughout the 1600s. Many white colonists obtained passage to America by coming as indentured servants,
thus making it acceptable to employ both Caucasians and Negroes as such.
continued...
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Slavery continued to cause problems in mainline denominations...
Baptists remained fairly independent with little structure beyond their associations. The Baptist General Assembly met regularly from 1814 on
but it held little power. Baptists formed the American Baptist Anti-Slavery Society in 1840 forcing moderate Baptists to take a stand.
In 1844, the Georgia Baptist Convention appointed James Reeves, a slave owner, as missionary to the Cherokee Indians. When his petition
for approval came to the General Convention it was rejected. In 1845, southern Baptists withdrew to form the Southern Baptist Convention
in Augusta, Georgia.
continued...
When John C. Calhoun gave an address in Congress in support of the Compromise of 1850, he said American religious bonds were broken
and he pleaded that the nation's political bonds remain united. The fact that churches could not get along indicated no one else
could either. Church division over slavery predicted the Civil War.
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Baptistwww.conservapedia.com/Baptists
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Baptists are descended primarily from the work of John Smyth (1554-1612) in England. He fled to Holland due to persecution of the Anabaptists,
of which he was part. Baptists arrived in the American colonies and became especially numerous in New England and Virginia. After 1800 the
denomination grew rapidly but split in 1845 over the issue of slavery. Many slaves were Baptists and at the end of the Civil War they
withdrew from white churches and set up their own network of Baptist churches.
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1776 - 1865: from BONDAGE to HOLY WAR
Abolition and the Splintering of the Churchwww.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_2/p_5.html
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One of the legacies of the Second Great Awakening was the Abolitionist Movement, the coalition of whites and blacks opposed to slavery.
To support their cause, they frequently quoted Jesus' statements about treating others with respect and love. White Christians in the south,
however, did not view slavery as a sin. Rather, their leaders were able to quote many Biblical passages in support of slavery. The Civil War
and the divide over the question of slavery thus began in the nation's churches, a decade before fighting began on the battlefields.
continued...
During the 1840s and 50s, several of America's largest denominations faced internal struggles over the issue of slavery. ... The Baptists
maintained a strained peace by carefully avoiding discussion of the topic. But in 1840, an American Baptist Anti-Slavery Convention
brought the issue into the open. Southern delegates argued that, while slavery was a calamity and a great evil, it was no sin.
The Baptist Board later denied a request by the Alabama Convention that slave owners be eligible to become missionaries. Finally,
a Baptist Free Mission Society was formed and "refused 'tainted' Southern money."
The southern members withdrew and formed the Southern Baptist Convention, which eventually grew to become the largest Protestant
denomination in the U.S. The Baptist denomination officially split in 1845, with the North Carolina State Convention "cordially approving"
of the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention.
By this time, the United States had developed an obvious North/South divide over slavery, one that was based less on moral arguments
than on economic realities. The cotton-based economy of the southern states depended largely on the low-cost labor provided by the
slave population. In the industrialized North, however, slavery had become only marginally economic. This split was also reflected in the views
of the various Christian denominations with respect to abolition. Many Christians in the southern states saw abolition as a massive threat
to their culture and economy.
Cotton pickers
continued...
Slavery and race proved to be a divisive factor, leading to the formation of numerous Protestant denominations in the United States.
The aftershocks of this of American churches would be felt well into the twentieth century.
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Christianity and human slavery
The final abolition of human slavery in Christian countrieswww.religioustolerance.org/chr_slav2.htm
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1840: By this time, the United States had developed an obvious north/south split over slavery. The cotton-based economy
the Southern states depended largely on the low cost labor provided by the slave population. In the industrialized North,
slavery had become only marginally economic. This split was reflected in the views of the various Christian denominations
respect to abolition. Many Christians in the southern states saw abolition as a massive threat to their culture and economy.
They did not view slavery as a sin; their leaders were able to quote many Biblical passages in support of slavery. Many Christians
in the northern states had gradually built up a revulsion towards the "peculiar institution." In opposition to slavery, they frequently
Jesus' statements about treating others with respect and love.
1841 to 1844: The Baptist movement in the U.S. had maintained a strained peace by carefully avoiding discussion of the topic.
The American Baptist Foreign Mission Board took neither a pro nor anti-slavery position. An American Baptist Anti-Slavery Convention
in 1840 brought the issue into the open. Southern delegates to the 1841 Triennial Convention of the Board "protested the abolitionist
agitation and argued that, while slavery was a calamity and a great evil, it was not a sin according to the Bible." The Board later denied
a request by the Alabama Convention that slave owners be eligible to become missionaries. In a test case, the Georgia Baptist nominated a
slave owner as a missionary and asked ... the Home Missions Society to approve their choice. No decision was made. Finally, a Baptist
Free Mission Society was formed; "it refused 'tainted' Southern money." The Southern members withdrew and formed the Southern Baptist Convention, which eventually grew to become the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.
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Baptists, Congregationalists, the Free Church, and Slavery
Frederick Douglass
Baptists, Congregationalists, the Free Church, and Slavery:
An Address Delivered in Belfast, Ireland, on December 23, 1845
Belfast News Letter, December 26, 1845 and Belfast Northern Whig, December 25, 1845.
Blassingame, John (et al, eds.). The Frederick Douglass Papers:
Series One -- Speeches, Debates, and Interviews. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Vol. I.
www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1065.htm
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13. I beg now to introduce to your notice a little of the doings of one or two of the Churches of America, and I shall begin with the Baptist Church. (Hear.)
This Church is congregational in its organization and government, but its congregations are united by what is called a Triennial Convention, the object
of which is to spread the Gospel among the heathen. At the last but one of these conventions, in the City of Baltimore, the Rev. Dr. Johnston,
of South Carolina, presided, and he on this occasion asserted the doctrine that when any institution becomes established by law, a Christian man
may innocently engage to uphold it. The President of the Baptist convention is a slaveholder himself. He is a man-stealer. (Hear.) The Secretary
of the convention is another man-stealer, and most of the other office-bearers were manstealers were thieves. During the progress of the
business, there was one man in one of the committees, who was found to be an Abolitionist Elon Galusha. This man is now, I trust, in Heaven.
He dared to say that a slave was a man, and that slavery ought to be abolished. For this, the members of his church cut him off (hear) though
he was a man of talent and of unblemished character, and, as a minister of the gospel, unparalleled. Another great Baptist minister, the Rev. Lucius Bowles,
congratulated his brethren that there was "a pleasing degree of unity among the Baptists through the land, for the southern brethren were all slave-holders.
14. Slave-holders! Oh, my friends, do not rank the slave-holder as a common criminal as no worse than a sheep-stealer or a horse stealer.
The slave-holder is not only a thiever of men, but he is a murderer; not a murderer of the body, but, what is infinitely worse, a murderer of the soul
(hear, hear, hear) as far as a man can murder the soul of his fellow-creature, for he shuts out the light of salvation from his spirit. (Mr. Douglass then
read an advertisement which appeared in the American papers, by the legal representatives of the Rev. Dr. Furman, another eminent Baptist minister,
who, in his lifetime, had asserted that the Scriptures warranted the holding of slaves. The advertisement was to the effect, that, on a certain day,
would be put up to auction the property of the late Dr. Furman, consisting of land to a certain extent, "together with twenty seven negroes some of them
very fine a library chiefly theological two mules and an old waggon!" The reading of this advertisement created considerable merriment.) Mr. Douglass
proceeded Oh, my friends, instead of smiling and laughing at this, we should be sadly weeping to think that such a man ever lived as this Dr. Furman
this "Doctor of Divinity" to think that Christianity should be so degraded by one of its professing ministers! Yet, that man was reckoned among the pious
of the earth, and would have been received among the Baptists here as a good Christian minister. What a shame! but I must hasten.
15. We have here a specimen of the Baptist Church of America in one quarter. I have now to speak of them in the State of Virginia, where men regularly
enter into the raising or breeding of slaves, as a business, (hear), just as cattle are raised for the Smithfield market; and where the marriage institution is
set aside. In some cases it becomes the interest of the slave holder to separate two slaves (male and female) already married. When the question was
proposed to the Baptist Society there, whether parties thus separated might marry again, the answer was, that this separation being tantamount to the
civil death of either of the parties, to forbid the second marriage in either case, would be to expose to Church censure those who did so for disobedience.
(Great sensation.) Here we find a deliberate setting aside of the Marriage Institution, and the deliberate sanction of a wholesale system of adultery and
concubinage; and, yet the persons who authorise and enforce such wickedness calling themselves Christians! (Hear, hear.) I might go on, giving fact
after fact, relative to the doings of the Christian slaveholders in America; but, after what I have said, I wonder who will say in Belfast that a Christian
can innocently associate with these men? (Hear.)
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George Mason 1787 Constitutional Convention quote:
George Mason ('Father of the Bill of Rights'), Virginia delegate, August 22, 1787, in the Constitutional Convention:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgement of heaven upon a country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain
of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
www.adena.com/adena/usa/rv/rv009.htm
www.partyof1776.net/p1776/fathers/Mason%20George/quotes/contents.html
www.christianheritagemins.org/articles/Founding%20Fathers'%20Anti-slavery%20Addresses%20and%20Legislation.htm
The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
by James Madisonwww.constitution.org/dfc/dfc_0822.htm
Spoken prophetically in 1787, the national sin of American Slavery brought National Calamity, at the Hand of God,
in the 1861-1865 War Between Americans (War Between the States, Civil War), killing over 600,000 Americans.
And so it is today, the national sin of Child-Murder/Sacrifice-by-"Abortion" is bringing judgment and calamity upon America now,
and unless repented of, especially by Christians (for the sins of both commission and omission, including failing to do all that is possible
to ESTABLISH JUSTICE and END the killing), will bring National Calamity and destruction of today's America, at the Hand of God
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"As much as I value a union of all the States, I would not admit the Southern States into the Union unless they agree to the discontinuance
of this disgraceful trade [slavery]."
- United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason,
"Elliot's Debates", Vol. III, pp. 452-454, June 15, 1788 www.partyof1776.net/p1776/fathers/Mason%20George/quotes/contents.html
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AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
2 Chronicles 7:14 - God's remedy for America to be healed is for we who are CHRISTIANS to REPENT !
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then
will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
If child-murder-by-abortion were to end today in America, there would still remain the need to REPENT
for all the innocent blood which has already been shed (over 52 Million murdered by surgical abortion alone,
not counting the likely multiple times that number chemically aborted by dual action contraceptive/abortifacient
"birth control" pills, Depo-Provera, etc., ad nauseam).
Numbers 35:33; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-44; 2 Kings 24:1-4 - the shedding of innocent blood
(e.g., child-murder/sacrifice-by-"abortion") incurs the righteous judgment of God upon a nation (KJB).
There is corporate bloodguilt upon the land, and upon we who dwell in America, for the 52+ Million
pre-born human beings slaughtered in their mothers' wombs by surgical abortion, and for perhaps
multiple times that amount destroyed by chemical abortion (including " Birth Control" pills, which act
both contraceptively and abortifaciently).
Genesis 4:10; Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 19:10; Deuteronomy 21:1-9; Proverb 6:16,17;
Jeremiah 26:15; Ezekiel 35:6; Hosea 4:2; Matthew 26:24,25 (KJB).
For those who need to come out of denial about the gruesome nature of child-murder-by-"abortion" - view the video
of the commission of an actual child-murder-by-"abortion" at: http://www.abortionno.org/
- or look at pictures at: www.abortionno.org/index.php/abortion_pictures/
[ CCL Note: The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) is unfortunately also an ecumenical organization,
yoking with followers of the false religion of Rome. ]
"America Repent" (music video)Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlOdkO9jak
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From: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "Events" page:
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC
(since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
Just as the national sin of American slavery brought God's judgment of war upon both the North and the South in 1861,
so is the national sin of child-murder-by-"abortion" bringing war, terrorism, domestic violence, illegal immigration (foreign invasion),
economic hardship (and potential economic catastrophe), national deficits, national debt, tyrannical rulers (Psalm 106:37-44, KJB), etc.,
as divine judgments upon our rebellious, wicked nation today (Psalm 9:17, Proverb 14:34, KJB).
When child-murder-by-"abortion" ends one day in America (when Christian pro-lifers stop following the false leadership (Isa. 3:12, Isa. 9:16, KJB) of the Roman-Catholic-Bishop-founded National Right to Life Committee, in incessantly finding new ways to incrementally "regulate" child-murder, instead
of applying God's requirement for Biblical JUSTICE - i.e., to END abortion), there will still remain the need for the Nation, the States, the Churches,
Families, and Individuals, throughout America, to Repent, because if child-murder-by-"abortion" were to end TODAY (December 1, 2010),
there would still be a need to REPENT for the 52 Million+ already murdered(and this does not count the likely multiple tens of millions
aborted chemically by "Birth Control" pills, Depo-Provera, etc., ad nauseam.
Just as there is the need for the Nation, the States, the Churches, Families, and individuals of both the North and South, to Repent, where
it has not been done already, for the national sin of slavery, which was not ENDED until 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
after Americans fought our most costly war (over 600,000 dead), against each other !!! The 13th Amendment stopped the perpetration of the sin
and crime of American slavery, but that's not the same as repenting, saying we as a nation are sorry, for what had already been done
during 250 years (from colonial Jamestown, VA until 1865) of "unrequited toil," as Lincoln said in his March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address.
The Southern Baptist Convention repented in its 1995 national convention in Atlanta, GA, for slavery and racism.
Resolution On Racial Reconciliation On The 150th Anniversary Of The Southern Baptist Conventionwww.sbc.net/resolutions/amResolution.asp?ID=899
June 1995
Leaders of the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite, women - priests - ordaining, apostate Episcopalapologized "for their ancestors' slave ownership"
in a "solemn repentance service" in Philadelphia, PA in October 2008.
In February 2007, the Virginia state legislature also apologized:
Virginia state lawmakers pass slavery apologywww.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-24-virginia-slavery_x.htm
Child-murder-by-"abortion" is a national sin.
9-11 was a national calamity.
More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America, unless we repent of the national sin of "abortion". If we will not repent of the national sin of "abortion", then the America of today will be destroyed, just as God destroyedthe kingdom of Judah, with successive waves of foreign invasion in 605 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC (2 Kings, chapters 24 and 25).
We've already been attacked on September 11, 2001. Consider the undeclared / unconstitutional wars, calamities, and
other dangers America has suffered since 9-11: War in Afghanistan (2001 to today), War in Iraq (2003 to today), Katrina (2005),
ongoing Illegal Immigration (Foreign) Invasion, Economic "Great Recession" (?).
What will it be next, America ? What will it be next, Church ?
Repentance finally, or further and greater divine judgment ?
Abraham Lincoln, President, March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address:www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
"One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the
Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and
powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war."
"If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence
of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills
to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to
those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine
attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently
do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it
continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of
unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall
be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still
it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." "
In spite of all his failings, Lincoln was right in his March 4, 1865 Second Inaugural Address,when he said God gave "this terrible war" to BOTH North and South for the offense of slavery.
And today, God is bringing (increasing) divine judgment on America in the year 2010,
for our ongoing, unrepented, national sin of child-murder/sacrifice-by-"abortion".
As America considers the twin major national security issues of:
1) Millions of illegal aliens having already entered our country, and
2) The disaster from the undeclared, and therefore unconstitutional, and therefore illegal;
as well as unjustified (no 9-11 connection, no WMD's), and therefore unnecessary (not a "just" war),
and therefore immoral War in Iraq, REMEMBER:
It is God alone Who can bring peace, safety, and security to a land (Leviticus 26:5,6, KJB),
and ... Foreign invasion and War are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4, KJB)...
Child-sacrifice is an offense to God.
God says child-sacrifice defiles His sanctuary, and profanes His Holy Name.
Leviticus 20:3, KJB
What is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in America doing to Establish Justice to END this offense to our Creator ?!
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As has been said, it's now either Christ, or Chaos (and then Tyranny)...
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty."
2 Corinthians 3:17, KJB
Repent, Church ! Repent, America !
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No King but King Jesus! Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions,
and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"Where there is no vision, the people perish: ..." Proverb 29:18, KJB
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,...
seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4:6, KJB
Christ is Ruler of the Nations !
Psalm 2; Psalm 24:1; Psalm 47:7,8; Psalm 50:12; 1 Timothy 6:15, KJB
"For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations."
Psalm 22:28, KJB
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; ..."
Psalm 33:12a, KJB
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah)
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
USA
(803) 794-6273
Columbia Christians for Life
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
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http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
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US Army Reserves, 1982-1993, MAJ, FA
USMA 1977
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