Re: Racism & the Bible

Paul Arveson (arveson@oasys.dt.navy.mil)
Fri, 29 Mar 96 15:23:05 EST

> Bill Dozier wrote
>
> Biologically, it's pretty unlikely that any pure-blooded "spiritual" or
> "non-spiritual" folks would be around now. However, the spiritual
> implications were what I was after. One of those implications might be
> that people who have not put their trust in Christ -- regardless of what
> their ancestors did or didn't do -- are no different from animals
> spiritually. To put it in Calvinistic terms, one might claim that those
> who are not Elect are no different from animals spiritually. _That_ is the
> implication that scares me. I don't consider that view supportable,
> because Scripture maintains that men are responsible for their sins. But
> it certainly would be a dangerous view in the hands of a Christian Identity
> group.
>

There is NO justification in the Bible, or in Calvinism, for claiming that any
child of Adam is "no different from animals", or is spiritually superior.

Genesis 1: 26-27: "Let us make man [mankind] in our image ..."

Acts 17:26: "And he made from ONE every nation of men to live on all the face
of the earth..."

Mankind is ONE species, ONE original family, ONE genetic stock. Both the Bible
and modern science agree on this. I know you weren't implying otherwise, but I
want to get this out on the net loud and clear. There is no need to be scared
of racial implications in Christianity.

As for being spiritually superior, read Romans 2.

Also, just for the record, Internet world, we recognize that Jesus, our only
Lord and Savior, was Jewish, that he was not "Western" or "Eastern" either. He
came from the Middle East. He had black hair and dark brown skin and eyes like
every other man of that time and place.

Paul Arveson, Research Physicist
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