Christians and Racial Divisions

We hear about races and racism all the time, and some folks seem to be extremely race conscious — thinking of their race as a priority. They even intertwine their personal identities with their race. It may come as a shock, but races do not exist!

From a biblical standpoint, there is only one race. (Nations, ethnic groups, and other distinguishing characteristics, sure.) Another startling fact is that racism accelerated under Darwinism. The Bearded Buddha hinged his evolution story on his own racism.

Different ethnic hands, Pixabay / Rhythm_In_Life

People who have paid attention to American political news have probably noticed the accusations that Donald Trump is a racist and so are those who voted for him. (How they deal with Blacks for Trump and similar groups is unclear.) Leftist women seek to punish their men who voted for him, and sore losers rail against Trump supporters, sometimes with violence. And yet, none of their accusations have merit. Angry leftists "think" with emotions, believing what they were told to think. Reason need not apply. They have disdain for Scripture.

Christians may think things like "racial reconciliation" and so forth are really swell ideas. Actually, those are politically-motivated secular concepts. Again, evolutionary ideas are rooted in these things. Professing Christians believe wrong notions about race. Instead, Christians need to learn quick-like about what the Bible actually teaches. Then we must get under its authority and take the lead in getting to the root of the problem. Also consider that all are one in Christ Jesus (Gal. 2:38), and those ethnic characteristics some folks treasure will probably be gone in Heaven.

Divisions and abuses among people are serious problems in our world, and Christians need to confront these sins head-on. But we need to do it in a biblical manner and define terms carefully.

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It is satisfying to see that science is catching up to what the Bible has taught for thousands of years. Ample scientific evidence shows that the idea that “race” is a unique characteristic of a human being’s identity is fundamentally flawed. A case in point is a recent National Geographic article titled “There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It’s a Made-Up Label” (April 2018).

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