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The Healing of a Paralytic
Jesus ssaid to the paralytic, “Child, your sins are forgiven.” Now some of the scribes were sitting there asking themselves, “Why does this man speak that way?* He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?” Jesus immediately knew in his mind what they were thinking to themselves, so he said, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?
>slave morality would be Jesus telling the religious authorities: Yes Sir, you're right, I'm sorry. But the whole Gospel is the opposite of this. If you love literature about someone going around and sticking it to the religious establishment and religious leaders and their laws, you'll love the Gospel. Slave morality would be the opposite: Jesus going around in obedience to all the religious authorities, treating them as the master and respecting all their laws

The Call of Levi
He said to him, “Follow me.”
slave morality isn't asking people to follow you
Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?
>Jesus again rebukes the religious establishment and the relgious leaders, the whole Gospel is him doing this. Opposite of slave morality

The Question About Fasting
“Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus rebukes the laws of the religious establishment. Opposite of slave morality

The Disciples and the Sabbath
As he was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
>Jesus again rebukes the religious establisment and their laws

We are only two chapters in to the first and shortest book of the Gospel, all the Gospels go on like this.

Later in the Gospel (Mark 6, Matthew 10; Luke 6 and 9) Jesus endows his disciples with authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction and sends them out to go do the same thing Jesus was doing ("proclaim the kingdom of God"). He told them "And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

Later, he tells them he's going to send them the Holy Spirit (which happens on Pentecost), and we all have the Holy Spirit, which is God, we all have the same prophetic, priestly, and kingly calling that Jesus had
>opposite of slave morality

If Christians were taught slave morality you wouldn't have all these martyrs throughout history