What is Sojourner Truth's attitude toward the Bible?

A. She says it's a tool of whites to explain that slavery is morally acceptable.

B. She believes that every word in the Bible is from God.

C. She depends on professional theologians to make sense of it for her.

D. She accepts as true only what's true in her own experience

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Jazmine Bauer

16 August, 17:48

What is Sojourner Truth's attitude toward the Bible?

A. She says it's a tool of whites to explain that slavery is morally acceptable.

B. She believes that every word in the Bible is from God.

C. She depends on professional theologians to make sense of it for her.

D. She accepts as true only what's true in her own experience

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Cael Dennis · Answer 1

The answer is B.

Sojourner Truth, originally known as Isabella, was born a slave in New York in about 1798. In 1826 she escaped with the aid of Quaker Abolitionists, and became a street-corner evangelist and the founder of a shelter for homeless women. When she was travelling, and someone asked her name, she said "Sojourner," meaning that she was a citizen of heaven, and a wanderer on earth. She then gave her surname as "Truth," on the grounds that God was her Father, and His name was Truth.

She spoke at numerous church gatherings, both black and white, quoting the Bible extensively from memory, and speaking against slavery and for an improved legal status for women.

Allisson Sawyer · Answer 2

Sojourner Truth's attitude toward the Bible is that she accepts as true only what's true in her own experience. The correct answer is B. Although she respects what is written in the Holy Book, she doesn't want to believe in those events solely because they are written in the Bible - unless she has proof that those events happened, she won't hold them to be true.