One Race, One Blood- Division
With the shooting deaths last week in Charleston, South Carolina combined with the previous deaths in Ferguson and Baltimore, I have grown increasingly concerned with the issues of race relations in this country. For some reason we can have tolerance for almost anything except someone of another ethnic group. This must stop. We must recognize that we are all given our skin tones by our Creator God. If we can root for a person with a darker color than ours on our favorite sports team, than we must stop the nonsense.
Growing up and going to public schools in the 1970’s and 80’s, I did not witness segregation. As far back as I can remember, I attended school with many children of different backgrounds. We had no choice or control as to what color our skin was or our religious affiliation. We had no say in our socio-economic condition either. Some children were taught to have a dislike for other skin colors. My parents did not believe in having that same dislike. We were not taught to hate or fear another human being based on the amount of melanin in their skin. That is not to say that we never had disagreements with those of another skin tone. Only to say that those disagreements were not based on racism or hatred.
During my senior year of high school, I had a friend who had a disagreement with another young man. They were of different descent, but this disagreement was not based on color. They simply didn’t like each other. Unfortunately, what was a disagreement turned into what could have been a racial incident that neither of them expected, wanted or sought out. One night as my friend and I were riding around, the two of them spotted each other. This led to some words, but not racial slurs. Within a matter of minutes, we were on our way to a standoff with two clearly distinct sides. There were a group of us, made up of rednecks, skateboarders and just white guys in general. The other side was made up of African- Americans guys, some of whom were sports athletes at our school. Why did this dislike turn so quickly into an issue of race? Maybe because we tend to associate with those who are similar to us. Maybe because of the neighborhood makeup in which we live. Either way, it could have escalated to more than just a standoff. Thankfully it did not.
As I entered the classroom the next day at school, my friend’s disliked foe came in and preceded to have words with me. Being a passive person, but not one who liked to be backed into a corner, I felt that I had to stand my ground. This led to talk of going outside into the hallway. As I stood my ground, I do not remember having any dislike for this guy, other than the fact that he had gotten into my face. As the teacher came in, we were quickly reprimanded and sent to the principal’s office. So because I was there the night before for the incident, I was quickly absorbed into their conflict. We went to the principal’s office and were talked to and let go. As far as I was concerned, I was done with it. The school year proceeded and the two of them, still had not resolved their issues. To this day, I cannot remember what the problem was between them, but as far as I could tell, it was not about race.
With the shooting last week in Charleston, South Carolina, we can clearly see that there are those who have issues with people of another skin tone. From skinheads to the KKK, there are those who believe certain things about another group of people that are clearly irrational. They have at the least a dislike for another set of people if not an all-out hatred for them. What this is based on can go back for many generations, but ultimately ends back in the Garden of Eden. As logical as their beliefs are to them, they are interpreting things in a way that was not originally intended. With a home life that may very well have perpetuated this hatred, and even for generations, it is no wonder they believe what they do. They have not been taught any better and in fact have been taught one of the worst things imaginable.
From the very beginning, Satan has hated us humans because we are God’s creation. He has wanted us to serve him instead and do his bidding. We see people carry out atrocities and can recognize it as his handiwork. He hates God and hates us and the Bible says that he wants to kill and destroy us. He has a place prepared for him and his demons and wants to take as many of us with him as he can. If he can get us to hate each other because of our differences, than he has succeeded at exactly what he wanted to do. He whispered into Cain’s ear and Cain slew his brother Abel. From there, his hatred has penetrated many hearts through the centuries and used those people to do his bidding.
Continue to Part Two…
One Race, One Blood- Part Two- Rooted in Evolution
In one of the worst examples of interpretation in all of history, Charles Darwin observed the world around him and Satan whispered to him and used him to cause much of the hatred that has plagued us for almost two centuries. Darwin’s encounter with death, the death of his daughter Annie at the age of 10, caused him to look at life and God in a way that was destructive and hopeless. He could not reconcile a loving God with a world of death and suffering and so began his downward spiral into a humanistic way of thinking. The end result became known as the Theory of Evolution. He observed the things around him, started from there and said that man must be improving. If we are getting better there is no evidence of this. His original book, with the full title of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, clearly suggests that he believed some groups of people superior to others. This gave rise to the belief that slavery was OK, as well as Christians who believed that since slavery was in the Bible it was OK. So, his theory of evolution did not contradict the belief that certain people groups were greater than others but propagated this belief.
As a result, “by 1925, multitudes of students in America were being taught that the Caucasians were the highest race. What do you think that did to generations of young people as they grew up to become leaders in the community and the Church? Can you see how the seeds of this kind of thought would have taken root in the minds of those who would eventually join the Ku Klux Klan or the Christian Identity Movement?” Simply because of a false belief about the origin of man, millions have been bought, sold and slaughtered. Millions more have been killed in fighting wars that were caused by one people group hating another. The rise of eugenics (a phrase coined by Francis Galton, father of eugenics and cousin of Charles Darwin) in America and the belief of what were considered society’s “undesirables”, people who were poor or mentally challenged being forced into sterilization. The funding of these programs were provided by rich and profitable men such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Kellogg. This gave rise to Hitler’s belief and consequential round up of the Jews. Hitler’s understanding of the history of life, and that of Marx, Stalin and Mao, was not devised by a German, Russian or Chinese. It was shaped by an Englishman named Charles Darwin. Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859), laid the groundwork for their worldviews. They each applied the principle of “survival of the fittest” to their own situation.
For Marx and Stalin it was class struggle; for Hitler it was racial struggle. And because Darwinism undermined the authority of the Bible on origins, it meant that, logically, there was no accountability to God for the mass murder they used to implement their ideas. In fact, such tactics could be justified by Darwinism. Without an absolute standard of right and wrong, those in power are not accountable to any standard. So “might” becomes “right”.
As Darwin’s evolutionary thinking became widely welcomed and absorbed by society, it not only convinced leaders like Marx and Hitler, but it became a “scientific” framework justifying the public acceptance of their actions for the “benefit” of all humanity. Interestingly, Charles Darwin has for a final resting place, a burial plot at Westminster Abbey.
To further this rationale, the Bible itself has been used to justify continued hatred, segregation and separation. Various Christian groups still claim that the Bible supports white superiority and segregation. Extreme examples include the Ku Klux Klan and the Kingdom Identity.
The homepage for the Ku Klux Klan says that it is a U.S. Supreme Court recognized and protected Christian organization that received a charter from U.S. Congress because of their great moral and good Christian behavior. It states, “We come in the name of THE LORD God JESUS CHRIST, Amen.” Their doctrinal statement of beliefs includes this statement:
WE BELIEVE the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God’s true, literal Children of Israel. Only this race fulfills every detail of Biblical Prophecy and World History concerning Israel and continues in these latter days to be heirs and possessors of the Covenants, Prophecies, Promises and Blessings YHVH God made to Israel. This chosen seedline making up the “Christian Nations” (Gen. 35:11; Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26) of the earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God’s servant race (Isa. 41:8, 44:21; Luke 1:54). Only these descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel scattered abroad (James 1:1; Deut. 4:27; Jer. 31:10; John 11:52) have carried God’s Word, the Bible, throughout the world (Gen. 28:14; Isa. 43:10–12, 59:21), have used His Laws in the establishment of their civil governments and are the “Christians” opposed by the Satanic Anti-Christ forces of this world who do not recognize the true and living God (John 5:23, 8:19, 16:2–3).
Julian Bond, an African-American civil rights leader, said, “For many years the KKK quite literally could get away with murder. The Ku Klux Klan was an instrument of fear, and black people, Jews, and even ‘white’ civil rights workers knew that the fear was intended to control us, to keep things as they had been in the South through slavery, and after that ended, through Jim Crow. This fear of the Klan was very real, because for a long time the Klan had the power of Southern society on their side.”
While the laws of the land have changed, the heart of the Klan has not, and it continues to misuse the Holy Word of God to support its claims.
The Christian Identity Movement is a white supremacist and religious group that shares much of the Ku Klux Klan ideology. In the doctrinal statement of the Kingdom Identity Ministries (which sounds very fundamental/evangelical), the group affirms the authority of Scripture, the Trinity, salvation by grace, and other theological points. A closer look, however, reveals a deadly virus when the group addresses the issue of race:
We believe the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God’s true, literal Children of Israel. . . . This chosen seedline making up the “Christian Nations” (Gen. 35:11; Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26) of the earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God’s servant race (Isa. 41:8; 44:21; Luke 1:54).
We believe that the Man Adam . . . is father of the White race only. .
Their use of the Bible and Christian terms weaves a deceptive web that binds many into racist attitudes and segregationist actions.
Please continue to Part Three....
One Race, One Blood- Part Three – The Danger
Unfortunately, all of this has crept into our churches. Society as a whole has bought into the Evolutionary Theory and so has the church. Instead of interpreting our surroundings through the Word of God, we have interpreted Scripture by our surroundings. To believe that an ape and an African- American are closely related is dead wrong and not found in Scripture. To believe that because curses were pronounced on certain people in the Bible and that they resulted in different skin tones, is dead wrong and not found in Scripture. Also, to believe that slavery in the way in which we think of it (Slave ships, whipping posts, merciless masters) was acceptable to God and the same as what we find in the Bible is wrong. (The laws concerning slavery in the Old Testament appear to function to moderate a practice that worked as a means of loaning money for Jewish people to one another or for handling the problem of the prisoners of war. Nowhere was the institution of slavery as such condemned; but then, neither did it have anything like the connotations it grew to have during the days of those who traded human life as if it were a mere commodity for sale. . . . In all cases the institution was closely watched and divine judgment was declared by the prophets and others for all abuses they spotted.)
Any way you slice it, the issue of race and race relations is made clear in the words of Jesus, Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40 NLT
Obviously, if we are Loving God and loving our neighbors, there is no room for racism. Jesus also declared, “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” Matthew 19:4 NLT In doing so, He did not distinguish between colors and thus, discards the theory that any inferior or superior race exists. In the book of Acts we read that Paul was speaking to the people of Athens and included this statement: 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. Acts 17:26 (NLT). In fact, when the Bible speaks of any distinctions, it speaks of cultural differences not differences in color.
The Bible does not even use the word race in reference to people, but it does describe all human beings as being of “one blood” (Acts 17:26). This of course emphasizes that we are all related, as all humans are descendants of the first man, Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), who was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–27). The Last Adam, Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:45) also became a descendant of Adam. Any descendant of Adam can be saved because our mutual relative by blood (Jesus Christ) died and rose again. This is why the gospel can (and should) be preached to all tribes and nations. Since we are all of one race, the Human Race, we should have no problem with the command to love God and love others. For a follower of Christ to believe that we need to preserve our bloodlines, brings them dangerously close to the belief system of the KKK, whose membership requirements state:
1. You must be a free white male or female of European descent, at least 18 years of age. (We do verify age)
2. You must be a Protestant able to profess faith in Jesus Christ as personal Savior
3. You must not be married to or date people of other races, nor have mixed race dependents, this includes adopted children.
4. You must agree to conform to the rules of this order, and be willing to swear you will NOT conspire to commit any crime while an associate.
5. You must not join us with mercenary intent, or under secret evasion of any sort.
6. Under NO circumstances will we accept for associate ship: homosexuals, atheists, or those who have been found mentally insane. We will not accept candidates that have been convicted of treason, or espionage against the United States of America.
7. You must be a U.S. citizen and have a U.S. address. we do not accept foreign nationals, or have foreign associates.
8. You must not be on probation or parole. (Those on probation or parole are NOT free men).
And that one of the things deemed as unworthy racial or Klan conduct: "Being responsible for the polluting of Caucasian blood through miscegenation, or the commission of any act unworthy of a Klansman." White men must not mix their blood with that of colored or other inferior races.
For anyone claiming to have the Love of Christ in their heart, it should not be found in them a hint of racial disharmony. For we are all of One Blood and One Race. Sadly, there are some Christian homes where the parents are more concerned about their children not marrying someone from another “race” than whether or not they are marrying a Christian. When Christians marry non-Christians, it negates the spiritual (not the physical) oneness in marriage, resulting in negative consequences for the couple and their children.
The Bible tells us that when we are in error, that we must repent and confess that sin to Him in seeking His forgiveness. This includes any opinions, beliefs or actions that are not supported by His Word. To harbor any hatred in our hearts to those of another color, culture or faith is always wrong and needs to be repented of. Let us continue to look to God’s Word as the Final Authority for all of our core beliefs. Let us make sure that we do not “lean on our own understanding” Proverbs 3:5-6 and buy into the Lie that Satan whispers to us through things prevalent and rampant in our culture. For “There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 NLT
For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all. Ephesians 4:4-6 NLT
With the shooting deaths last week in Charleston, South Carolina combined with the previous deaths in Ferguson and Baltimore, I have grown increasingly concerned with the issues of race relations in this country. For some reason we can have tolerance for almost anything except someone of another ethnic group. This must stop. We must recognize that we are all given our skin tones by our Creator God. If we can root for a person with a darker color than ours on our favorite sports team, than we must stop the nonsense.
Growing up and going to public schools in the 1970’s and 80’s, I did not witness segregation. As far back as I can remember, I attended school with many children of different backgrounds. We had no choice or control as to what color our skin was or our religious affiliation. We had no say in our socio-economic condition either. Some children were taught to have a dislike for other skin colors. My parents did not believe in having that same dislike. We were not taught to hate or fear another human being based on the amount of melanin in their skin. That is not to say that we never had disagreements with those of another skin tone. Only to say that those disagreements were not based on racism or hatred.
During my senior year of high school, I had a friend who had a disagreement with another young man. They were of different descent, but this disagreement was not based on color. They simply didn’t like each other. Unfortunately, what was a disagreement turned into what could have been a racial incident that neither of them expected, wanted or sought out. One night as my friend and I were riding around, the two of them spotted each other. This led to some words, but not racial slurs. Within a matter of minutes, we were on our way to a standoff with two clearly distinct sides. There were a group of us, made up of rednecks, skateboarders and just white guys in general. The other side was made up of African- Americans guys, some of whom were sports athletes at our school. Why did this dislike turn so quickly into an issue of race? Maybe because we tend to associate with those who are similar to us. Maybe because of the neighborhood makeup in which we live. Either way, it could have escalated to more than just a standoff. Thankfully it did not.
As I entered the classroom the next day at school, my friend’s disliked foe came in and preceded to have words with me. Being a passive person, but not one who liked to be backed into a corner, I felt that I had to stand my ground. This led to talk of going outside into the hallway. As I stood my ground, I do not remember having any dislike for this guy, other than the fact that he had gotten into my face. As the teacher came in, we were quickly reprimanded and sent to the principal’s office. So because I was there the night before for the incident, I was quickly absorbed into their conflict. We went to the principal’s office and were talked to and let go. As far as I was concerned, I was done with it. The school year proceeded and the two of them, still had not resolved their issues. To this day, I cannot remember what the problem was between them, but as far as I could tell, it was not about race.
With the shooting last week in Charleston, South Carolina, we can clearly see that there are those who have issues with people of another skin tone. From skinheads to the KKK, there are those who believe certain things about another group of people that are clearly irrational. They have at the least a dislike for another set of people if not an all-out hatred for them. What this is based on can go back for many generations, but ultimately ends back in the Garden of Eden. As logical as their beliefs are to them, they are interpreting things in a way that was not originally intended. With a home life that may very well have perpetuated this hatred, and even for generations, it is no wonder they believe what they do. They have not been taught any better and in fact have been taught one of the worst things imaginable.
From the very beginning, Satan has hated us humans because we are God’s creation. He has wanted us to serve him instead and do his bidding. We see people carry out atrocities and can recognize it as his handiwork. He hates God and hates us and the Bible says that he wants to kill and destroy us. He has a place prepared for him and his demons and wants to take as many of us with him as he can. If he can get us to hate each other because of our differences, than he has succeeded at exactly what he wanted to do. He whispered into Cain’s ear and Cain slew his brother Abel. From there, his hatred has penetrated many hearts through the centuries and used those people to do his bidding.
Continue to Part Two…
One Race, One Blood- Part Two- Rooted in Evolution
In one of the worst examples of interpretation in all of history, Charles Darwin observed the world around him and Satan whispered to him and used him to cause much of the hatred that has plagued us for almost two centuries. Darwin’s encounter with death, the death of his daughter Annie at the age of 10, caused him to look at life and God in a way that was destructive and hopeless. He could not reconcile a loving God with a world of death and suffering and so began his downward spiral into a humanistic way of thinking. The end result became known as the Theory of Evolution. He observed the things around him, started from there and said that man must be improving. If we are getting better there is no evidence of this. His original book, with the full title of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, clearly suggests that he believed some groups of people superior to others. This gave rise to the belief that slavery was OK, as well as Christians who believed that since slavery was in the Bible it was OK. So, his theory of evolution did not contradict the belief that certain people groups were greater than others but propagated this belief.
As a result, “by 1925, multitudes of students in America were being taught that the Caucasians were the highest race. What do you think that did to generations of young people as they grew up to become leaders in the community and the Church? Can you see how the seeds of this kind of thought would have taken root in the minds of those who would eventually join the Ku Klux Klan or the Christian Identity Movement?” Simply because of a false belief about the origin of man, millions have been bought, sold and slaughtered. Millions more have been killed in fighting wars that were caused by one people group hating another. The rise of eugenics (a phrase coined by Francis Galton, father of eugenics and cousin of Charles Darwin) in America and the belief of what were considered society’s “undesirables”, people who were poor or mentally challenged being forced into sterilization. The funding of these programs were provided by rich and profitable men such as Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Kellogg. This gave rise to Hitler’s belief and consequential round up of the Jews. Hitler’s understanding of the history of life, and that of Marx, Stalin and Mao, was not devised by a German, Russian or Chinese. It was shaped by an Englishman named Charles Darwin. Darwin’s book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1859), laid the groundwork for their worldviews. They each applied the principle of “survival of the fittest” to their own situation.
For Marx and Stalin it was class struggle; for Hitler it was racial struggle. And because Darwinism undermined the authority of the Bible on origins, it meant that, logically, there was no accountability to God for the mass murder they used to implement their ideas. In fact, such tactics could be justified by Darwinism. Without an absolute standard of right and wrong, those in power are not accountable to any standard. So “might” becomes “right”.
As Darwin’s evolutionary thinking became widely welcomed and absorbed by society, it not only convinced leaders like Marx and Hitler, but it became a “scientific” framework justifying the public acceptance of their actions for the “benefit” of all humanity. Interestingly, Charles Darwin has for a final resting place, a burial plot at Westminster Abbey.
To further this rationale, the Bible itself has been used to justify continued hatred, segregation and separation. Various Christian groups still claim that the Bible supports white superiority and segregation. Extreme examples include the Ku Klux Klan and the Kingdom Identity.
The homepage for the Ku Klux Klan says that it is a U.S. Supreme Court recognized and protected Christian organization that received a charter from U.S. Congress because of their great moral and good Christian behavior. It states, “We come in the name of THE LORD God JESUS CHRIST, Amen.” Their doctrinal statement of beliefs includes this statement:
WE BELIEVE the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God’s true, literal Children of Israel. Only this race fulfills every detail of Biblical Prophecy and World History concerning Israel and continues in these latter days to be heirs and possessors of the Covenants, Prophecies, Promises and Blessings YHVH God made to Israel. This chosen seedline making up the “Christian Nations” (Gen. 35:11; Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26) of the earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God’s servant race (Isa. 41:8, 44:21; Luke 1:54). Only these descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel scattered abroad (James 1:1; Deut. 4:27; Jer. 31:10; John 11:52) have carried God’s Word, the Bible, throughout the world (Gen. 28:14; Isa. 43:10–12, 59:21), have used His Laws in the establishment of their civil governments and are the “Christians” opposed by the Satanic Anti-Christ forces of this world who do not recognize the true and living God (John 5:23, 8:19, 16:2–3).
Julian Bond, an African-American civil rights leader, said, “For many years the KKK quite literally could get away with murder. The Ku Klux Klan was an instrument of fear, and black people, Jews, and even ‘white’ civil rights workers knew that the fear was intended to control us, to keep things as they had been in the South through slavery, and after that ended, through Jim Crow. This fear of the Klan was very real, because for a long time the Klan had the power of Southern society on their side.”
While the laws of the land have changed, the heart of the Klan has not, and it continues to misuse the Holy Word of God to support its claims.
The Christian Identity Movement is a white supremacist and religious group that shares much of the Ku Klux Klan ideology. In the doctrinal statement of the Kingdom Identity Ministries (which sounds very fundamental/evangelical), the group affirms the authority of Scripture, the Trinity, salvation by grace, and other theological points. A closer look, however, reveals a deadly virus when the group addresses the issue of race:
We believe the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God’s true, literal Children of Israel. . . . This chosen seedline making up the “Christian Nations” (Gen. 35:11; Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26) of the earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God’s servant race (Isa. 41:8; 44:21; Luke 1:54).
We believe that the Man Adam . . . is father of the White race only. .
Their use of the Bible and Christian terms weaves a deceptive web that binds many into racist attitudes and segregationist actions.
Please continue to Part Three....
One Race, One Blood- Part Three – The Danger
Unfortunately, all of this has crept into our churches. Society as a whole has bought into the Evolutionary Theory and so has the church. Instead of interpreting our surroundings through the Word of God, we have interpreted Scripture by our surroundings. To believe that an ape and an African- American are closely related is dead wrong and not found in Scripture. To believe that because curses were pronounced on certain people in the Bible and that they resulted in different skin tones, is dead wrong and not found in Scripture. Also, to believe that slavery in the way in which we think of it (Slave ships, whipping posts, merciless masters) was acceptable to God and the same as what we find in the Bible is wrong. (The laws concerning slavery in the Old Testament appear to function to moderate a practice that worked as a means of loaning money for Jewish people to one another or for handling the problem of the prisoners of war. Nowhere was the institution of slavery as such condemned; but then, neither did it have anything like the connotations it grew to have during the days of those who traded human life as if it were a mere commodity for sale. . . . In all cases the institution was closely watched and divine judgment was declared by the prophets and others for all abuses they spotted.)
Any way you slice it, the issue of race and race relations is made clear in the words of Jesus, Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40 NLT
Obviously, if we are Loving God and loving our neighbors, there is no room for racism. Jesus also declared, “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” Matthew 19:4 NLT In doing so, He did not distinguish between colors and thus, discards the theory that any inferior or superior race exists. In the book of Acts we read that Paul was speaking to the people of Athens and included this statement: 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. Acts 17:26 (NLT). In fact, when the Bible speaks of any distinctions, it speaks of cultural differences not differences in color.
The Bible does not even use the word race in reference to people, but it does describe all human beings as being of “one blood” (Acts 17:26). This of course emphasizes that we are all related, as all humans are descendants of the first man, Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45), who was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–27). The Last Adam, Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 15:45) also became a descendant of Adam. Any descendant of Adam can be saved because our mutual relative by blood (Jesus Christ) died and rose again. This is why the gospel can (and should) be preached to all tribes and nations. Since we are all of one race, the Human Race, we should have no problem with the command to love God and love others. For a follower of Christ to believe that we need to preserve our bloodlines, brings them dangerously close to the belief system of the KKK, whose membership requirements state:
1. You must be a free white male or female of European descent, at least 18 years of age. (We do verify age)
2. You must be a Protestant able to profess faith in Jesus Christ as personal Savior
3. You must not be married to or date people of other races, nor have mixed race dependents, this includes adopted children.
4. You must agree to conform to the rules of this order, and be willing to swear you will NOT conspire to commit any crime while an associate.
5. You must not join us with mercenary intent, or under secret evasion of any sort.
6. Under NO circumstances will we accept for associate ship: homosexuals, atheists, or those who have been found mentally insane. We will not accept candidates that have been convicted of treason, or espionage against the United States of America.
7. You must be a U.S. citizen and have a U.S. address. we do not accept foreign nationals, or have foreign associates.
8. You must not be on probation or parole. (Those on probation or parole are NOT free men).
And that one of the things deemed as unworthy racial or Klan conduct: "Being responsible for the polluting of Caucasian blood through miscegenation, or the commission of any act unworthy of a Klansman." White men must not mix their blood with that of colored or other inferior races.
For anyone claiming to have the Love of Christ in their heart, it should not be found in them a hint of racial disharmony. For we are all of One Blood and One Race. Sadly, there are some Christian homes where the parents are more concerned about their children not marrying someone from another “race” than whether or not they are marrying a Christian. When Christians marry non-Christians, it negates the spiritual (not the physical) oneness in marriage, resulting in negative consequences for the couple and their children.
The Bible tells us that when we are in error, that we must repent and confess that sin to Him in seeking His forgiveness. This includes any opinions, beliefs or actions that are not supported by His Word. To harbor any hatred in our hearts to those of another color, culture or faith is always wrong and needs to be repented of. Let us continue to look to God’s Word as the Final Authority for all of our core beliefs. Let us make sure that we do not “lean on our own understanding” Proverbs 3:5-6 and buy into the Lie that Satan whispers to us through things prevalent and rampant in our culture. For “There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 NLT
For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all. Ephesians 4:4-6 NLT
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