Contours of a Biblical Christian Worldview – WORLDVIEW IN ACTION A Christian worldview requires a thorough understanding of scriptures balanced against the Bible’s message as a whole. The abolition of the slave trade in Britain illustrates how two opposing sides can make use of selective scriptures to argue their case. The following discussion will give a brief background to this historical struggle identifying the beliefs and values of both the pro-slavery lobby and the abolitionists. It will also justify why the abolitionists held a more authentic biblical position. Additionally, it will compare the sex trafficking trade as a current moral dilemma.
Lincoln’s standpoints on the issues of slavery varied throughout the documents but his concern for the well-being of the slaves themselves was constant. In the end Lincoln wanted all men free. In the letter to Horace Greeley, Lincoln writes of saving the Union, and not destroying or saving slavery. Lincoln states "If I
House Divided Speech, June 16th 1858 In this prophetic speech Lincoln foreshadows the deep division that occurred between the northern and southern states in saying A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. He further shows his opposition towards slavery in denouncing the ending of the Missouri Compromise’s ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska and the Dred Scott, which he say as another step in the direction of spreading slavery into Northern territories.
The war did not erupt in 1820 because a compromise was reached. The Missouri Compromise was a deal stuck by both sides of Congress, at this time the clear distinction between North and South had not been so prevalent, but this issue about the expansion of slavery was making bold lines in the sand. The Compromise of 1820 was about the extension of slavery and how it should not pass the 36°30’ north line in the Louisiana Territory, Congress wanted to keep the number of slave
Not because of the morality of it all but because he didn’t want the south to maintain more power. Tallmadge came up with an Amendment called, “The Tallmadge Amendment”in which it stated no slavery allowed to incoming states. This was quickly refuted by Thomas’ plan. Thomas had a different idea for what to do about Missouri. Instead of abolitioing slavery and ultimately giving the north more power, he made a compromise.
Most of the plethora of allusions he used were of divine providence and the Bible. This means that he used the Bible to show the audience what the scriptures had said about the issue on slavery and the war. For example, when Lincoln was talking about the separation of the northerners and southerners, he said,” Both read the same bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against each other.” He wanted to show the people how the bible shows no barrier between different states of a country because God looks at them all the same way; hence why he says that both Northerners and Southerners pray to the same god. Biblical illusions made his view on the whole problem not prosaic. Not only that, but he wanted to remind the people that “The Almighty has his own purposes” (line 36) and if it were not for Him, then He
‘…a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just” (Document 1, Thomas Jefferson Wrestles with Slavery, 1785, 388). They assumed that the ruthless behavior and unholy operations for the practice of slavery would unleash the wrath of the Heavens upon them as a consequence of their inhumane actions. The abolition of slavery occurred as the government abolished laws.
Lincoln ensured that all people including the black and white people, are created equally. He also criticized that people fought the Civil War just to take control of slavery. This idea went against the law of nature, which says that all people are equal. Lincoln pointed out that slavery which would be fixed by the Civil War, was one the biggest mistakes that Americans have. Besides, the quote “now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can
Preferably, it was a war tactic to militarily weaken the South and preserve the Union, add soldiers to the Union cause, and in many opinions please abolitionist northerners. What did Abraham Lincoln do and think when taking in consideration slavery during the Civil War? In Abrahams first Inaugural Address he states” I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the intuition of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. “(pg.
Lincoln points out that he, as well as the rest of the country, did not want to go to war but realized that it was the only way out of the problems arising. He also goes on to say that both sides had the power to stop the war and that was brewing. He makes clear the fact that, if desired, all violence could have been avoided. Lincoln does a great deal of comparisons between the north and the south in his speech. He brings out the flaws in both sides, and ultimately puts the blame on the feuding between the two sides.