Racism” is an issue that raises its ugly head all over the world. It’s the mud that people sling at each other when they don’t like what the other has said or done. It’s the brick wall they hide behind to shield their own “racist” attitudes. It’s the paint they apply to blame the other person’s colour on the outside.
However, racism, and all its fallacies, is, well, a fallacy! You see, when God created the first pair, He made the beginning of one race, the human race. All the colour, culture, and group distinctions are variations of one race. If we strip off our skin, we are all the same on the inside.
Acts of the Apostles 17:26 NLT
[26] “From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.”
So, what can be clearer than that!
Where does racism originate? I comes from foolish members of this one race who think that the variations in one race equals different races! Since a dachshund differs from a dalmatian, is it not a dog? Since a lion differs from a house cat, is it not a cat?
When Jesus came to rescue the human race from sin, He created another race but on very different grounds. His world was divided into two variations in the human race, but not on the grounds of colour or culture. Their defining difference were spiritual. The Jews were God’s people; the Gentiles, were not. The Jews believed in one God; the Gentiles worshipped many gods.
The hatred between Jew and Gentile was deep and bitter. Their racism would never be solved by negotiation or education. There was no way of ever bringing about “racial” tolerance. It was what it was.
God’s way of ending the enmity was risky and radical but permanent and effective.
Ephesians 2:14-16 NLT
[14] “For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. [15] He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. [16] Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.”
How about that!
No more reason to be at loggerheads with each other. Peace and togetherness at last! A new perspective on racism. It does not exist in God’s family.
Galatians 3:28-29 NLT
[28]”There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.”
Therefore, racism is the artificial distinction created by those who leave God out of their lives.
From God’s perspective, then, there are only two variations in the human race.
1 John 5:11-12 NLT
[11]” And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. [12] Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life.”
All other distinctions are false and mischievous, creating wars that have no grounds to exist.