More than a few of those who attended college in recent decades were told by professors, guest speakers, textbooks and other assigned readings that “the Bible supported slavery.”
What wasn’t disclosed was the fact the modern abolitionist movement was inspired by the same Bible, as with William Wilberforce who succeeded in outlawing the Slave Trade. How can these two claims simultaneously both be true? They can’t.
Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace makes that point about Wilberforce, the great British Parliamentarian, and much more in the following video that makes it clear the critics got this one wrong, too:
