Biblical Authority

Biblical Authority

Introduction

The religiosity of the people of the United States has great achievements, but also serious challenges for the country's religious communities. There is a fascinating correspondence amongst the social issues and views on biblical authorities of the global South churches and those of the African-American churches (Lincoln & Mamiya, 2000). According to Jenkins, "The socially liberating effects of evangelical religion should come as no surprise to anyone who has traced the enormous influence of biblically based religion throughout African-American history.… When viewed on a global scale, African-American religious styles, long regarded as marginal to mainstream American Christianity, now seem absolutely standard." This paper discusses the African American religion conflict and the emergence of their religious styles and the biblical authority in the global south churches.

Discussion

"Religion in America" ??was practiced even before the colonization of the indigenous people (Indians) and that a large part of the first immigrants to the continent were not voluntary, but in they were sold for slavery (Lumsdaine, 2009). Their descendants developed in this context own African-American forms of religion. Over fifty years ago, the American citizens would have dismissed the Christians conservations in the global South as ascending from an absence of the sophistication of theology and would have regarded the opinions as firmly minimal to the apprehension of the Christians of Western Europe and North America. Christians wouldn't have given a care about the Africans views and opinions. The American Christians thought themselves as superiors and the history narrates the racial discrimination and limitations the African Americans went through (Lincoln & Mamiya, 2000).

The African Americans were looked down upon and were not allowed to enter the churches. In the South, religious freedom of African-Americans was very limited. Often, it was forbidden to slaves by law to adhere to the established churches in the northern states or to establish their own official religious institutions (Jenkins, 2008). It developed a differentiation of religious practice in external adaptation to the demands of slaveholders and inward adherence to independent exercise of religion. The fact that none of the rest dared to join it says neither that the Christians formed an isolated community, or that they are kept away from those who were willing to join them (Lumsdaine, 2009). We can see how eager she missionaries and the church as God enlarged with those who were being saved (Acts 2:47). Among the rest, we need to understand that Jesus did not want to serve with all their lives (Jenkins, 2011). Evangelization and the lives of Christians led the people to decide. There were certainly temporary guests in the community, but not a large number of people who had remained undecided in order to convert perhaps years or decades or practiced until the end of life forms of religion.

Catholicism is a foundational structure of Christianity with its beliefs, scripture, and hierarchy forming the bedrock of a significant form of the Christian religion (Lincoln & Mamiya, 2000). Many immigrants to North America, particularly the Irish, depended on the constancy ...