What Does the Bible Say About Reparations?
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- Are reparations biblical? Absolutely! To pay reparations means to make amends for a wrong that was done.
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- Another word for this is restitution and the law required the person responsible to restore more than what was lost.
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- For example, in Exodus 22 it says, if a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
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- In Leviticus 6 an offender had to repay what was lost plus extra, plus take a sacrifice to the priest to atone for sins.
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- In Luke 19, Jesus went to the house of a tax collector named Zacchaeus who said, the half of my goods
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- I give to the poor and if I have defrauded anyone of anything I restore it fourfold.
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- And Jesus said, today salvation has come to this house. In view of Christ, Zacchaeus made reparations.
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- But how about reparations for slavery? In Deuteronomy 15 it says, when a master freed his slave he was supposed to load him up.
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- But anyone who was not a slave is not entitled to compensation and anyone who did not own slaves is not required to make restitution.
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- In Ezekiel 18, the Lord said that if a man fathers a son who sees the sins of his father and does not do likewise, he shall not bear the penalty for his father's iniquity.
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- The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself and the wickedness of the wicked upon himself. All have sinned against God and owe a debt so great we could not pay it.
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- But by faith in Jesus we are forgiven our debts. So we must forgive our debtors when we understand the text.