pre civil war

The second Great Awaking was a time when men’s faith was lead, directed, and altered the American Heritage. It was a battle of words that ultimately lead to the Civil War by diverse interpretations of the Bible, authorities condemnation, and false fallacies.
There are many interpretations and seemingly contradictions in the Bible concerning slavery. In
Lev. 25: 44-46 the passage describes what type of slaves you can have, and that your family will have them forever. In Exodus 21:2-6 the Bible says that a slave can only be a slave for six years and his wife and children are under the rule of the master unless the male slave declares that he loves his master. Another passage in Exodus 21:7-11 describes when the master can have sex with his slaves. On the other side God helped the Hebrews escape the slavery of the Egyptians and their bondage. Many say that slavery in our modern day is based on race, and in biblical times it was based on social debts. There for God is against the racial slavery and discrimination. From text in the Bible there seem to be contradictions and both the North and the South used these text for both supporting and abolishing slavery.
Naturally men and women will respect authority. Many pastures and preachers had their own unique interpretation of the Bible and how it described and decaled with the issue of slavery. Because the pastures and preachers were an authority figure in the cities that they preached at they had an influence on what the people believed. An quote from the www.mrlincolnandfreedom.org website illustrates the authority preachers had in this quote, “At the camp-meeting, Dr. Peter Akers, like Peter Cartwright, a great Bible preacher of his day, then in the fulness of his powers, preached a sermon on 'The Dominion of Jesus Christ.' The object of the sermon was to show that the dominion of Christ could not come in America until American slavery was wiped out, and that the institution of slavery would at last be destroyed by civil war. For three hours the preacher enrolled his argument and even gave graphic pictures of the war that was to come. 'I am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet,' said he, 'but a student of the prophets. As I read prophecy, American slavery will come to an end in some near decade, I think in the sixties."
There were many false fallacies used to develop the civil war by using the bible and preaching methods. The one that I noticed while reading was that preachers would state you are either for slavery or against it. This left the people with the idea that only one choice was correct when in reality there are many dynamic and complex issues with slavery. For example is it supporting slavery to buy sugar made by slaves? Does slavery included child labor? Although someone might be getting paid is it possible for them to still be enslaved? The Missouri Compromise is an example of how the mindset was built that either you were for slavery or against it, but there was no specific definition of what constituted as slavery.