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Racism

Racism. “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another” (Titus 3:3). Racism A definition of the Term.

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Racism

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  1. Racism “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another”(Titus 3:3)

  2. RacismA definition of the Term • “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.” (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary) • Note: “traits and capacities” determined by race • “inherent superiority of a particular race”

  3. RacismExamples of Racism • Jews attitude toward the Gentile in Biblical times.

  4. Jews Attitude Toward the Gentiles ISBE, Vol. II, Page 1215 (During Old Testament Times) “…The Gentile stranger enjoyed the hospitality of the Israelite who was commanded to love him (Dt. 10:19), to sympathize with him, “For ye know the heart of the stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Ex. 23:9 AV)… “"Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Deut. 10:19).

  5. Jews Attitude Toward the Gentiles ISBE, Vol. II, Page 1215 “But as we approach the Christian era the attitude of the Jews toward the Gentiles changes, until we find, in NT times, the most extreme aversion, scorn and hatred. They were regarded as unclean, with whom it was unlawful to have any friendly intercourse. They were the enemies of God and His people, to whom the knowledge of God was denied unless they became proselytes, and even then they could not, as in ancient times, be admitted to full fellowship...”

  6. Jews Attitude Toward the Gentiles ISBE, Vol. II, Page 1215 “…Jews were forbidden to counsel them, and if they asked about Divine things they were to be cursed. All children born of mixed marriages were [illegitimate]. That is what caused the Jews to be so hated by Greeks and Romans, as we have abundant evidence in the writings of Cicero, Seneca and Tacitus. Something of this is reflected in the NT (Jn. 18:28; Acts 10:28; 11:3).”

  7. John 18:28 “Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.” Pilate came out to them (cf. vs. 29), because they would not enter the Roman complex

  8. Acts 10:28 “Then he said to them, ‘You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.’”

  9. Acts 11:1-3 “Now the apostles and brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. 2 And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, 3 saying, ‘You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!’”

  10. RacismExamples of Racism • Jews attitude toward the Gentile in Biblical times. • African Slavery in America

  11. African Slavery in AmericaInstitute Research Paper #7 (Inst. In a Box) “As nations sought to expand their wealth through overseas exploration, conquest, plunder and colonial exploitation, the concept of race and nation became irretrievably fused to the domination, conquest and exploitation of not just ‘inferior peoples’, but ‘inferior peoples’ of color. As African slavery spread to meet the labor needs of the Americas, the wider the spread of the concept of race…

  12. African Slavery in AmericaInstitute Research Paper #7 (Inst. In a Box) “These ideas were used to facilitate the control and exploitation of both whites and blacks. The early colonial ruling class, fearful of rebellion and unity by white indentured servants and black slaves extended privileges to whites while at the same time tightening slave codes and passing laws that kept the two groups separated…

  13. African Slavery in AmericaInstitute Research Paper #7 (Inst. In a Box) “The ideas of race were increasingly consolidated after the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, which allowed for the expansion in cotton production and required more land in cotton and more slaves to work that land. "Scientific" views arose to justify this expansion of slavery and the consolidation of the slave system. These same views sought to justify US imperialist expansion under the banner of "Manifest Destiny" and to justify the poverty of poor whites. Legal, political, social and religious institutions were built upon and further developed to protect the system of slavery and the ruling class that benefited from it.”

  14. RacismExamples of Racism • Jews attitude toward the Gentile in Biblical times. • African Slavery in America • The Jewish Holocaust in WW II

  15. The Jewish Holocaust in WW IIYad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority “In the 1930s, large segments of the German populace consented to live in a society based on the tenets of hatred, ethnic utopianism, and violence. They went to war to redress every wrong and every perceived wrong perpetrated against them over the previous 200 years, and to create their version of a better world. A central belief in the system by which they lived was that the Jews (or "The Jew") represented everything diametrically opposed to them and, for this reason, had to be removed…

  16. The Jewish Holocaust in WW IIYad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority “…This belief was closely connected to a racial worldview, shared by many, which defined the Germans as members of a master race - the Nordic Aryans - and the Jews as an "anti"-race befouled by destructive physical characteristics. The utopia toward which these Germans strove would be unattainable if the Jews remained. When the geographical removal of the Jews proved infeasible, they resorted to the most radical of solutions: a Final Solution.”

  17. RacismExamples of Racism • Jews attitude toward the Gentile in Biblical times. • African Slavery in America • The Jewish Holocaust in WW II • Present Day Racist attitudes which exist • Hatred of Semitic peoples after 9-11 • Continuing distrust between races, whether Black, White, Latino, Asian, etc. • Most segregated institution in society? Church!

  18. RacismWhy Racism is Wrong! • Hatred Is Sinful. • Matthew 5:43-45; Titus 3:3; 1 John 2:9-11

  19. Matthew 5:43-45 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”

  20. Titus 3:3 “For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.”

  21. 1 John 2:9-11 “He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

  22. RacismWhy Racism is Wrong! • Hatred Is Sinful. • Matthew 5:43-45; Titus 3:3; 1 John 2:9-11 • Racism is flawed thinking • All are created by God (Acts 17: 26-28)

  23. Acts 17:26-28 “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’”

  24. RacismWhy Racism is Wrong! • Hatred Is Sinful. • Matthew 5:43-45; Titus 3:3; 1 John 2:9-11 • Racism is flawed thinking • All are created by God (Acts 17: 26-28) • All are one in Jesus (Galatians 3:26-29)

  25. Galatians 3:26-29 “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

  26. RacismWhy Racism is Wrong! • Hatred Is Sinful. • Matthew 5:43-45; Titus 3:3; 1 John 2:9-11 • Racism is flawed thinking • All are created by God (Acts 17: 26-28) • All are one in Jesus (Galatians 3:26-29) • Spiritually, no difference in souls (Matt. 16:26-27)

  27. Matthew 16:26-27 “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. 28 Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

  28. RacismWhy Racism is Wrong! • Hatred Is Sinful. • Matthew 5:43-45; Titus 3:3; 1 John 2:9-11 • Racism is flawed thinking • All are created by God (Acts 17: 26-28) • All are one in Jesus (Galatians 3:26-29) • Spiritually, no difference in souls (Matt. 16:26-27) • James 2 Condemns Partiality (vss. 1-9)

  29. James 2:1-9 “My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. 2 For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ and say to the poor man, ‘You stand there,’ or, ‘Sit here at my footstool,’ 4 have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?…

  30. James 2:1-9, cont. “Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? 7 Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? 8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you do well; 9 but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.”

  31. Conclusion It is an bankrupt morality which would show preference to one race over another. There is no inherent superiority in any race, as God has made all nations from one blood. Racism has at its root hatred! Racism is Sinful before God!

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