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The Christian and Racism

• What Does the Bible Say?

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Racism in the World Today

• A person can be racist and be white (KKK,
  Neo-Nazis) or black (Black Panthers)
• A person can be racist without being a member of
  a racist organization
• A Christian can have racist attitudes (see
  articles by some preachers in the Gospel Guardian
  in the 1960s)

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Racism in the World Today

• Racism is not
• When a police officer of one color makes an
  arrest of someone of another color
• When an employer of one color hires someone of
  the same color based solely on qualifications
• When a Christian says that a non-Christian
  (Muslim) must convert in order to be saved, or
  that a homosexual must repent in order to be saved

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Definition of Racism

• Racism A belief that race is the primary
  determinant of human traits and capacities and
  that racial differences produce an inherent
  superiority of a particular race. (Websters New
  Collegiate Dictionary)
• Racism the belief that one race is superior to
  another one race is more pure than another

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Causes of Racism

• Ignorance and fear (Gen. 415? 925? 1032?
  111-9? black people are cursed? theory of
  evolution?)
• Pride and prejudiced (Prov. 1618 Gal. 63
  Phil. 22-3 2 Tim. 31-4)
• Hatred (hate crimes Mt. 543-45 Gal. 519-20
  Eph. 431 Col. 38 Tit. 33 1 Jn. 29-11
  420-21)

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Results of Racism

• Segregation, discrimination, slavery, violence
  (equal but separate? Jn. 44,9 848 1828
  Gal. 211-16 Acts 1028 113 Jas. 21-9
  1950-60s segregation)
• Stereotyping (Jn. 146)
• No inter-marriage (racial or religious grounds?
  Deut. 73? see 2110-13 Josh. 2312? Ezra
  912 1010-11? Neh. 1323-27? Num. 121? Mt.
  15?)
• Genocide (Ex. 115-17 Esther 36 Jewish
  holocaust South African apartheid ethnic
  cleansing in Crotia)

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Prevention of Racism

• All people in the world (1) come from one
  original couple and (2) are made in Gods image
  (Gen. 126-27 320 Acts 1726-28
  Jas. 39)
• God is no respecter of persons (Deut. 1017-19
  2 Chron. 197 Acts 1034-35 Gal.
  26 Eph. 69 Col. 325 1 Pet. 117)
• God saves all people the same way (Lk. 1329
  Jn. 316 Mk. 1615-16 Rom. 1012 Gal.
  328 Tit. 211 Rev. 59 79 146)

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Prevention of Racism

• God is concerned about the inward man, not the
  outward (skin color) of man (1 Sam. 167
  Mk. 720-23 Rom. 228-29)
• Love and good deeds for all people regardless of
  racial background (Deut. 1019 Mt. 2239
  Rom. 139-10 Jas. 210)
• True unity and equality regardless of racial
  background (Eph. 216)

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The Christian and Racism

• Racism (in and out of the Lords church) will be
  solved by transforming ones mind to the will of
  God, by not civil policies alone, forced
  integration, etc.
• God will not judge us on the color of our skin,
  but on the content of our character (Rom. 26-11)