Gentiles and Jews

I never before noticed that in pushing to the Gentiles the elders were to invite them to repent and gather to Zion while they should invite Jews to repent and gather to Jerusalem.

It says much about our respect for law that the church would declare from it’s infancy that where slavery was legal they would not encourage slaves to rebel since doing so would put innocent lives in danger. That does not preclude arguing for an end to slavery but merely prohibits trying to achieve that end through violent means. There is a lesson and pattern in that.