Apacallyps, I agree with what you're saying. Races aren't the enemy at all..the enemy is evil action. As far as culture is concerned, I think that some may see culture and wind up separating different cultures according to race. I, on the other hand see good and evil in different cultures. There is good and evil in the black culture, white culture, Hispanic culture and so on. However I think that it would behoove us to try to figure out how we can stop bad culture from taking over entire races. Once we get an idea on how to counter to bad with the good, I think we'll be at least on the right track to greatness...(although no situation and no one is perfect.)
You're right Erica.
The problem is with man. He is evil. The Bible tells us that,
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:
who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
One cannot even trust his own conscience. Only God's Word gives fully
reliable counsel.
Bottom line: There are no races. We all came from Adam and Eve. You
could say we are all cousins and not be wrong about that. I just finished
a book called, "One Bood: The Biblical Answer to Racism". I recommend
everyone read it. Really puts this issue into perspective. Awesome book!
Some people think there must be different "races" of people because there
appear to be major differences between various groups, such as skin color
and eye shape. The truth, though, is that these so-called different "racial"
characteristics are only minor variations among the people groups. Scientists
have found if one were to take any two people from anywhere in the world,
the basic genetic difference between these two people would typically be
around 0.2 percent - even if they came from the same people group. But,
these so-called different "racial" characteristics that many think are major
differences (skin color, eye shape, etc) account for only 6 percent of this
0.2 percent variation, which amounts to a mere 0.012 difference genetically.
In otherwords, the so-called "racial" differences are absolutely trivial.
Overall there is more variation within any group than there is
between one group and another. If a white person is looking for a tissue match
for an organ transplant, for instance, the best match may come from
a black person, and vice versa. The ABC News science page stated,
"What the facts show is that there are difference among us, but they
stem from culture, not race.
According to the Bible, all people on earth today descended from Noah
and his wife, his three sons and their wives, and before that from Adam
and Eve (Genesis 1-11). The Bible tells how the population that descended
from Noah's family had one language and were living together and disobeying
God's command to "fill the earth" (Genesis 9:1, 11:4). God confused their
language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups, which
scattered over the earth (Genesis 11:8-9).
"So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called
Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:
and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth." Genesis 11:8-9
Using modern genetics, they have shown how following such a break-up of
a population, variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few
short generations. And there is good evidence to show that the various
groups of people we have today have
not been seperated for huge
periods of time.
People are the problem. Judeo-Christians are faced with evil people and evil
cultures. Islam is an evil culture, a demonic one. Same with homosexuals and
the agenda the ACLU is pushing, etcetera. People come across un-educated
when they bring in the race card, because this has nothing to do with races.
One Blood: The Biblical Answer to Racismhttp://www.amazon.com/One-Blood-Biblical-Answer-Racism/dp/0890512760I hope that helped. May the Lord bless you.