God didn't create racism, but did He create racial tension?
God didn't create racism, but did He create racial tension?
He has a good sensibility. I've appreciated a good many things he's said.
Another issue regarding this discussion comes from Genesis 11
Genesis 11
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel
[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
In the next chapter, God removes Abraham from his own people in Ur and calls him to a new land away and apart from all peoples. This caused both ethnic and racial tensions and it needs us Christians to discuss what is supposed to be purposeful as well as what is supposed to be (evil) overcome with good. Under the gospel, there is no separation. None at all, but as we look at where we come from, it is from diverse groups and people, who mostly look to their own interests. The problem with a one-world-government is that it can and will drive agenda and the gospel will be little welcome nor can it exist unless 1) all Christians are gone or at the end, when all Christians are under Christ. The separation, it seems is important for the nature of man without God else they'd be unified but against all that really matters and stuck in concerns of this temporal world.
When Christ came, it was not to unite all people, but unite all people who come to/are in Him.
Thoughts?
In Him -Lon