The Biblical Case Against Racism

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The Biblical Case Against
Racism
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Racism Defined

• Any explicit or implicit belief or practice
  that qualitatively distinguishes or values one
  race over other races.
• Any sinful action or attitude elevating the
  superiority of ones race over another in such a
  way as to cause a lack of love.
• Can be expressed in attitudes,
  thoughts, and/or actions.
• Can be individual or institutional

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The Biblical Case Against
Racism

• Ten Reasons Why Racism is Sin

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Racism denies all were created in Gods image.

• Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in
  our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
  the sea and the birds of the air, over the
  livestock, over all the earth, and over all the
  creatures that move along the ground.
• Genesis 126

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Racism is a form of murder.

• "You shall not murder.
• Exodus 2013
• cf. Jesus exposition
  Matthew 521-26

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Racism is a form of lying, of bearing
false witness.

• You shall not give false testimony against
  your neighbor.
• Genesis 2016

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God does not show partiality - and neither should
we.

• For the LORD your God is God of gods and
  Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome,
  who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. He
  defends the cause of the fatherless and the
  widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and
  clothing. And you are to love those who are
  aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 1017-19

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A NT Example of How the Impartiality Principle
Works

• Then Peter began to speak "I now realize
  how true it is that God does not show favoritism
  but accepts men from every nation who fear him
  and do what is right.
• Acts 1034-35

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God is just in all His dealings expects us to
practice justice.

• But let justice roll on like a river,
  righteousness like a never-failing stream!
• Amos 524

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Racism rejects the unity of the
human race.

• From one man he made every nation of men,
  that they should inhabit the whole earth and he
  determined the times set for them and the exact
  places where they should live.
• Acts 1726

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Love demands we see others as worthy of
preferential treatment.

• Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain
  conceit, but in humility consider esteem
  others better than yourselves.
• Philippians 23

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Christians are to be distinguished by love for
all other believers regardless of
ethnicity or color.

• A new command I give you Love one another. As I
  have loved you, so you must love one another. By
  this all men will know that you are my disciples,
  if you love one another.
• John 1334-35

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Racism is a rejection of the
doctrine of redemption.

• There is no difference, for all have sinned and
  fall short of the glory of God Romans
  322-23
• But I, when I am lifted up from the earth,
  will draw all men to myself. John 1232

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Racism is a rejection of the
doctrine of redemption.

• But now in Christ Jesus you who once were
  far away have been brought near through the blood
  of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has
  made the two one and has destroyed the barrier,
  the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in
  his flesh the law with its commandments and
  regulations. His purpose was to create in himself
  one new man out of the two, thus making peace,
  and in this one body to reconcile both of them to
  God through the cross, by which he put to death
  their hostility.
• Ephesians 213-16

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Our unity in Christ transcends all ethnic, social
sexual distinctions.

• You are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized
  into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,
  male nor female, for you are all one in Christ
  Jesus.
• Galatians 326-28

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The Body of Christ is to reflect unity in
diversity.

• The body is a unit, though it is made up of
  many parts and though all its parts are many,
  they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we
  were all baptized by one Spirit into one
  bodywhether Jews or Greeks, slave or freeand we
  were all given the one Spirit to drink. Now the
  body is not made up of one part but of many.
• 1 Corinthians 1212-14

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In heaven all believers will love each other
worship together!

• And they sang a new song Worthy are you to
  take the scroll and to open its seals, for you
  were slain, and with your blood you ransomed
  people for God from every tribe and language and
  people and nation. And you have made us kings and
  priests to serve our God, and we will reign on
  the earth.
• Revelation 59-10 (NKJV)

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How Should We Respond?

• God calls us . . .
• To prayer
• To self-examination confession
• To repent of sins of our past/history
• To intentionally pursue racial reconciliation
• To develop cross-cultural ministries plant
  ethnic multiethnic churches

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