Featured What is the Christian theological response to racism?

In your OP, one of your questions was:

What are some worldly ideas we can correct?

My post, concerning the prophecies that Noah pronounced on his sons, demonstrate the Sovereignty of God and that He has license to do as he sees fit according to His will.

This materialistic and status conscious world pushes the lie that all men are created equal. This lie, which is perpetually pushed, helps sustain a culture of envy and unrealistic expectations.

Romans chapter 9 totally debunks this false narrative. The truth is that we are all born into greatly differing circumstances. Thru Christ, we can and should become content in varying circumstances. Absent Christ, good luck.

Life is not fair but Christ gives us what we need to endure and overcome in this world. Those without Christ are not equipped as we are to endure and overcome. If life was fair then what would there be to overcome.

The answer to all things is Christ. But Christ is not what our politicians, media, and most clergy are promoting.

 

Ultimate sense, its giving forth the Lord Jesus!

 

There is only one race. The human race.

 

Yes they do, but we need to stay focused on Jesus as Lord is what seems to be the main missing point!

 

Acts of the Apostles 17:26.

 

Wow, one blood speaks to a human family. The redeemed are also a family within the family so to speak. Thank you.

 

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His Gleaning In Genesis for me personally is an excellent read and I highly recommend it... Brother Glen

 

I don't condone and I don't think the Bible condones racism or superiority of one race over another. But I have known in my personal experience some people use the curse of Ham in the OT as a basis for saying that blacks are inferior and "cursed" among the races, by pointing back to that story in the Bible.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dmg2/comsalz3 as publ. with additions.pdf

This is a long read but if anyone wants to see where the origin of racism by actual Christians (misguided as they were and still are imo) was found, that's a nice bit of enlightenment.

I think a thread (if there isn't one already) on ancestral curses would be an interesting and worthwhile topic of discussion as they were written about in the Bible. Do I believe people can become cursed by unrepentant sin and turning away from God? Yes, do I think they can pass that on to their offspring? Maybe so. I'd like to see what other people would have to say on that topic, but as far as the racism here goes, it's simply not biblical to think oneself superior over another person based on the color of ones' skin. And that goes both ways, as I know blacks who are racist against whites and would sooner have themselves be over them (as a payback of sorts and revenge) from when there were white slaveholders in the past. Do I think I need to be judged and punished for the sins of my great-grandfathers? No, but you see people feeling those sort of ways to any white person they see. And then of course you have the white people, especially baby boomers, who have racism ingrained in them from when the country did segregate by color. I think racism is a sin everyone should repent of if they have it, whether they realize it or not, and it is really a sin of judging and hatred, aren't we called to love everyone? and to treat others how we ought to be treated?

Thoughts?

 

Now the Democrats are including in their rhetoric that the Confederates were Traitors. Deliberately provocative rhetoric designed to divide the nation even further. The Democrats despise and seek to destroy America. They are doing Satan's bidding.

By their loose and deviant interpretation, All Americans would be Traitors for rebelling against the British. Which is exactly what King George labeled our founding fathers.

 

Know that Joseph Smith and the other Mormon prophets and Apostles saw Blacks cursed by God for this, until God suddenly changed his mind per them 1978!