Avoid04 said:
I was reading in the bible, and saw that god meant for races not to be equal. Is this true? I posted what I found out below.
Scripture never says once that the races are not be to be equal, lets have a look at creation shall we?
[bible]Genesis 1:26-27[/bible]
Now it says humans were created in God's image, unto his likeness, not equal with God of course, but nothing implying that any dividing lines should exist among different races.
[bible]Genesis 1:28[/bible]
We are all descended from Adam and Eve, and later on from Noah. The racial divisons are an addition of man, and nowhere in God's plan at all. This is from the begining of time, the first chapter of history.
God deliberately divided people into different races the whites being superior to blacks.
You found this in scripture? You have got to be kidding, it's not there, it doesn't exist, not even a hint of anything like this. The first passage used to validate this blasphemous view is:
[bible]Genesis 11:1-9[/bible]
The problem with using this passge is that race is never mentioned, it is never even implied. In fact everyone obviously spoke the same language, and lived together and intermingled. Their sin, the one that caused the seperation, was pride. Verse 6 is clear, "behold they are ONE people", the seperation that happened here was stictly based on language and nothing else. Race is never mentioned, much less implied. It states clearly that they were one people, nothing more and certainly nothing less!
The next verses commonly used to support this false doctrine are:
[bible]Deuteronomy 7:3[/bible]
[bible]1 Kings 11:2[/bible]
[bible]Nehemiah 13:25[/bible]
Notice how these are all single verses, with no context whatsoever. The first verse is clarified directly afterwards in the next verse in the passage where is states this is concerning turning away from God, it says not one thing about races. This is true of course as lines were drawn muchly according to religion at this time, they were not drawn by skin color.
The second verse clarifies itself, without even looking at other verses in the passage. Again it about turning away from God.
The third verse actually makes you read two whole verses farther to get the context, and suprise, it is again about turning away from God!
Also of note here if you were to look at a map of the time you would see that the people's refered to in all of these chapters were quite likely even the same color. This all takes place in one rather small area, the admonitions in these passages are about nationalities and races. Also of note is that the New Testament supports this reading of these passages:
[bible]2 Corinthians 6:14[/bible]
And finally the third most popular verse used to promote this fallacy is:
[bible]Numbers 12:10[/bible]
I love the irony in this one. But you have to know the history to have the irony. Miriam was Ethiopian, as black as night. When God showed his disapproval he struck her white. Now here is the really funny part, the part that makes me snicker when people try to use this verse. They miss what caused her to be white altogether. It was leprousy. The rest of the passage tells us she was exiled for 7 days and then allowed back into camp. What can we glean from this?
1. God healed her over the course of the seven days, otherwise they wouldn't have let her back in the camp.
2. What would have happened when she was healed? Her skin would no longer be white, because the color is caused by the disease.
So this is nothing to do with race at all, it is much deeper and goes into a single man's refusal to obey God. The irony is where the cursed person in the story is the one that is changed to white!
The Bible says 'There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians--you are one in Christ Jesus. (
The Bible, Galatians chapter 3 verse 28). They said that this means people are only
spiritually equal, not physically equal.
Here is where I start to wonder about your post. You said you found these things while reading the Bible, and here you say "They said...". Who are they? I think I know, but please humor me. Galations 3, in fact most of Galations as well, was dealing with the teachings at the time that the Law was still binding on Christians. Galations states very firmly in many places that we are indeed no longer under the Law. Oddly enough this removes the marriage restrictions that might make a case for seperation.
That South Africas Apartheid laws were Gods will.
How can you support this with scripture? I seriously doubt that Nelson Mandela and South Africa are mentioned in scripture at all. There are many times in scripture where people don't get what God told them his will was for them because they screwed it up. Just because laws are in place does not mean that they are God's will.
Mixed marriages and relationships are discouraged so races remained 'pure'.
I already quoted the scripture that is used to "prove" this argument. It was not so the race remained pure, it was so that the religion remained pure. In fact any people in a counquered nation that would convert were accepted as citizens once their conversion was complete and there were no restricitions on marriage within the nation. This alone disproves this assertion.
God is the 'Great Divider'. Genesis 1 supports this, in that, God divides everything into separate categories - race is divided from race and meant to be separate.
Race is never divided in Genesis 1, in fact MAN is a whole category unto himself. There are no other divisions listed. We are seperated indeed, from the animals, from the angels, and once saved from the world, but never in scripture are we seperated by race!
The doctrines in the OP are directly from the Christian Identity movement. A movement that is decidedly racist and not very Christian. I know, I was once a part of this. This is deadly doctrine and has led to more hate than you can possibly imagine. If anyone would like to know more about it PM me and I will link you to some websties that talk on the teachings of these false teachers.
