What did Jesus say about RACISM?
Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2024 7:52 pm
We've all no doubt have heard of various people claiming that Christianity is "the White man's religion" or that it is somehow prejudiced or is designed to marginalize certain people, races or groups. Well, what did Jesus Himself say about such things? What does the Bible say over and over about WHO, inclusively - and HOW God wants us to love ALL other people?
See what apologist and pastor Cliffe Knechtle has to say about it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5efMEavtLhI
And perhaps nowhere else in the Bible is God's view of how we are to treat others that are of different racial and ethnic background's than how Jesus illustrated it in His famous Parable of the Good Samaritan: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=ESV
Note the key characters in the Good Samaritan Parable, of those who encountered a robbed, severely beaten man lying alongside the road:
The Lawyer: A hypocritical, self-serving legalist, desiring to justify who all, inclusively, he is to love - as well as those he didn't want to love.
A priest: Well-respected in Jewish society - but shows no love to beaten, half-dead man.
A Levite: Also highly respected, of the priestly tribe - who, likewise, continues on and ignores the beaten man.
A Samaritan: A mixed-race man, of a people group highly despised across Jewish society, as they had inter-married with non-Jews and did not keep the Jewish laws of the Old Testament. And yet, the Samaritan is THE example Jesus intentionally uses to illustrate loving ALL others as He wants us to, in how he showed great compassion and concern for another suffering human being - as he paid no regard whatsoever as to the victim''s race or how society might have viewed him.[/u]
Other verses across the Bible showing God sees ALL men the same, and has NO partiality to any persons of ANY background!
"For God shows no partiality." (Romans 2:11)
"So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality," (Acts 10:34)
Also see: Deuteronomy 10:17; Galatians 2:6, 2 Chronicles 19:7, Job 34:18-19, Colossians 3:25, Deuteronomy 16:19, Ephesians 6:9, Matthew 22:16, Luke 20:21, 1 Peter 1:17, Proverbs 24:23-24, James 2:8-9
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