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Michelle Hallmark Powell
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Scripture teaches that God created all human beings in His image. There is no exception. Since we are all made in His image we are each unique and precious to Him. There is no hierarchy of human beings demonstrated throughout Scripture. Jesus came so that we all might be saved.
Racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that your own race is superior. The result is hatred, fear, and inhumane treatment toward someone because of the nation they are from or the color of their skin.
God created humanity in His image, but the Bible teaches there are many nations and ethnicities. God never distinguished between them. They were all a part of God’s human race. It didn’t matter what color they were, where they were from, or what their religion and beliefs were.
Throughout the Bible God talked about Arabs, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Israelites.
God has always had open arms to the entire world. In the life and death of Jesus, we learn of God’s love, compassion, and mercy shown to all people. God sent Jesus to die for the entire world (John 3:16) and instructed the disciples to go in to all nations and share the Gospel so that every nation and generation could have the opportunity for eternal life.
Galatians 3:28
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Evolution
The roots of racism has its foundational belief in “evolution.” Without evolution, racism cannot exist. The idea that some races are superior and others are inferior can only be upheld by the concept that some races are more evolved and advanced than other races.
Here is an example from Wikipedia on racism:
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This is sometimes known as academic racism, such theories first needed to overcome the Church’s resistance to positivist accounts of history and its support of monogenism. You would have to discard the theory that all human beings originated from the same ancestors (Adam and Eve—I Timothy 2:13)
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According to the Bible, we all know God created Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Genesis 2:7). And the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Genesis 2:18).
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The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
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The Church originally opposed evolution because of the Bible account of Creation. Racism is never actually talked about in the Bible. It can not exist in truth, as the Bible teaches that there is only one race...the human race.
The Bible deals with Sin not racism. Racism is a consequence of Sin. Sin does exist and the world tries to replace it with racism, which is pride; hautiness, thinking too highly of one’s self, etc.
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“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets” (Matthew 7:12).
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Racism Abounding Everywhere
Almost every month there is an awful incident occurring where several people are killed. It is always blamed on racism. Someone has been brainwashed in to being anti-semitic which is the same as being racist. The entire political agenda is to insist any incident that may happen is due to racism. And to be frank, they do try to connect it to their racist goals and plans. As time goes by we have been watching the anti-white stuff growing for years and black and white alike are getting fed up with it.
It Really is All About Jesus!
“But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness” (Colossians 3:8-14). 
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