If a Calvinist Preached on the Gospel from your Pulpit

So true!

Plus he went on to serve under Selina Hastings, foundress of The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion:

Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

 

I may be wrong, but I recall that Whitfield’s views of slavery were more that it was not anti- Scriptural. Yet, he did hold that inhumane treatment would bring God’s judgment. He campaigned for slavery (as an economic necessity) but also promoted humane treatment and established educational institutions that the life of the slave would be lifted above that estate.

Here is a short article about his own conflicted thinking: (Slaveholding Evangelist)

Slavery in Whitfield’s time was very different then that which turned very ugly with the invention of the Cotten gin. Just a few years prior, some southern state legislatures were considering some manner of ending it, but cotton became king and the demand for cheep labor was about to reap the judgment Whitfield predicted.

For those wanting more in-depth Cambridge University Press has this available:

George Whitefield on Slavery: Some New Evidence on JSTOR

 

Does it? Exactly how?

 

Do you feel an obligation to mention the error of ALL theologians and figures in church history that you quote?

 

He didn't mention that John L. Dagg was a slavery apologist. Dagg was a Baptist theologian; he's a favorite of the Founders faction.

 

Stonewall would gather as many children of slaves together as he could and hold Sunday school. He and Lee both were not in the war because of slavery, but because of the northern aggression. Typical of the Southerner, they put great authority into local and state rights and considered the congress of the US a hindrance.

But isn’t that what much of the problem is in this day?

Perhaps, Paul”s declaration, that believers are to support those who rule, show that same condition in his time, too.

 

Correct. The war was not about slavery. The war was about economics and Federal control of economics. Slavery was simply one of the many pieces of that economic puzzle.

 

And it carried the image to the northern population of recovering what was righteousness and placing human aspects upon the issue rather than things.

We see that appeal regularly in the media and even in churches.

 

I wonder if there are aspects of reformed thinking that are more highlighted in the South and others more in the north?

I would consider that cultural divides would also be shown in how one considers aspects of important theology.

 

The pre-war slavery in some areas was brutal, however the north was actually just as much at fault for the treatment as the south.

Rather then establishing just laws based upon Scriptural treatment for all which would have certainly aided the Asians, the native Americans, the Irish, ... there was huge atrociousness done both pre and post war to folks that could have been resolved with righteous laws and no civil war.

The US has never recovered from the Civil War, and such is reflected in the typical unrest of the modern groupings.

Right laws could have brought balance and brought correct thinking, that wars never can produce.

 

The gospel is the message the Apostles carried.

I don't see that message being perverted in a Calvinistic presentation of the Scriptures, for such place all authority in the hands of God, and at the same time call for repentance and belief.

What I do see is the opposite most often propagated among the non-cal.

That in some manner it comes down to humans taking the action in which results are salvation.

Start with humans, ends with failure.

Start with God, ends in victory.

 

In fairness, slavery in that time period was worldwide. Europe had freed most of its slaves, but they had only recently done it. Was slavery wrong? Sure it was wrong, but it was not unique to the USA.

 

My pastor may be a Calvinist, for all I know. He certainly does enjoy reading Spurgeon. But when we have time to sit down and converse, we seem to spend much more time discussing practical matters. Who needs assistance, or a visitation, how can we reach more people in our community...that sort of thing.