What Does The Bible Say About Race?

The two start the conversation looking at Revelation and Genesis to show that throughout the Bible, Scriptures speak of multiple ethnic races.

 

Greg is quick to point out that even though much of the Bible focuses on one race (the Israelites), that doesn't mean that these people are "God's favorite nation," because the goal seen in the New Testament is for the people of God to be unified.

 

Greg brings up the first miracle of the Christian church, which is in Acts when the Holy Spirit falls on the people and they all hear their own language. Greg calls this the reversal and anti-tower of Babel.

 

RD and Greg transition to discussing Peter and Paul's issue around food, and how it had become "religious racism" as Greg calls it.

 

In thinking about race and where we are in the US right now, Greg asserts that the most important thing about us is not our race or how we identify socially, it's that we are in Christ; those of us in Christ are one in Him. RD affirms that who we are ethnically or what gender we are is important and purposeful, but states again that the most important thing about you is being in Christ. Both RD and Greg profess that whatever gender, race, or ethnicity you are, God designed you that way for a reason, and you have a voice and a reason to be in the conversation.

 

The two end with a passage from Revelation that effectively sum up the entire conversation.

 

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