SENDING HIM BACK TO YOU / PHILEMON 1:12

(KJV) Philemon 1:12

Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

Paul was not giving his approval of slavery, but he did not want to remove the responsibility from Philemon to do what is right. The New Testament did not encourage a direct movement to free the slaves, even Christian slaves, not did it authorize a revolt of slaves against their masters. To initiate such an effort in the socio-political conditions, particularly of the Roman Empire, during New Testament times would have destroyed the church and the cause of Christ. Instead of direct confrontation, guidelines were laid down for both the Christian slave and Christian master that would finally tear away the foundation for slavery from within and lead to its end (Philemon1:10, 12, 14-17, 21; Philemon 1:10; Philemon 1:11; Colossians 3:22, Titus 2:10).

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SENDING HIM BACK TO YOU / PHILEMON 1:12

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Paul was not giving his approval of slavery, but he did not want to remove the responsibility from Philemon to do what is right.

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Margarita Crews

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Guided By Grace

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