In the New Testament,Jesus Did Not Condemn Slavery

question 106

Multiple Choice

In the New Testament,Jesus did not condemn slavery.What did this mean to southern slaveholders?

• A) The Bible was not good for defending slavery.
• B) The New Testament could be used to endorse slavery.
• C) Jesus was a slaveholder.
• D) Slavery did not exist in the ancient Middle East.
• E) Jesus left the freeing of slaves to Moses.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

The hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.

Statistically Significant

A term indicating that the observed effect or relationship in data is unlikely to be due to chance, based on a predetermined significance level.

Null Hypothesis

An initial assumption which posits that no meaningful variance or impact exists, serving as the basis for beginning statistical analysis.

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis in a statistical test when it is actually true, commonly denoted as alpha (α) and used as a threshold for determining statistical significance.