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A Creationist Cannot Be A Race-Hater.

10/20/2021

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A consistent Christian creationist cannot harbor hatred toward other tribes or skin-colors. The Bible is very clear all throughout that all humanity originally springs from one man. God through Moses revealed that the man's name was Adam. We first read about him in Genesis 1-4.

Jesus Christ regarded Adam as a real person. He based some of His teachings about marriage on the marital example of Adam and Eve. The apostle Paul treated Adam as real as well. The Genesis genealogies trace back to Adam.

Adam's historical example carries no moral authority if he was mythological, any more than if I were to base a sermon on Spider-Man. Christ's genealogy in the gospel of Luke starts with Christ and goes all the way back to Adam. If Adam was a myth, then Jesus was a myth; and we know Jesus was not a myth.

This means we all trace our bloodlines back to a single fixed point. First we all trace back to Noah, and then, through Noah, back to Adam. This speaks to our equal, shared humanity. We are all made in God's image. We are also all sinners because Adam disobeyed God, as Paul discusses in Romans chapter 5.

God did not evolve primates up to a certain level then implant a rational soul into them, as C.S. Lewis unfortunately guessed. 

Many efforts have been made by misguided people over the centuries to prove the Bible exalts Caucasians. First, Biblically speaking, as creationists we say there is only one race -- the human race. Some have taught the so-called "curse of Ham", and claimed that curse was black skin. But read the Genesis story. See that the curse was actually on Canaan, Ham's son (some commentators think that the curse passed over Ham because God had blessed him earlier; or God meant "Ham's line" all along, just as Israelites were often called "Jacob").

Canaan's seed were the Canaanites, who lived in and around what we call the land of Israel. God's curse through Noah fell on them in the form of Joshua and the armies of Israel, as they took the Promised Land. The Canaanites were not Blacks.

The same Biblical truth can be applied in all sorts of directions. Caucasians are not "white devils." They're all sinners. Native American Indians are not "red devils." They're all sinners. None of the various continental African tribes are good or the others bad. They're all sinners. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. All must come to God by faith in Christ, to be saved from their own sin and guilt.

God requires of us a fundamental respect for every human being. Even when we don't understand each other, or agree with each other, we are all made in the image of God our mutual Creator. This is why our U.S. Declaration of Independence says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." That is God's Biblical truth. 



    

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