SURVEY Says:
A number of surveys done in recent years have shown that Americans who consider themselves to be evangelical christians are more racist than average white Americans.
You would think that christians would know better than to be racist, given that it is obviously against everything JESUS taught in the BIBLE. This points to the underlying problem of mainstream American Christianity; people have accepted a religion that is actually opposed to the BIBLE - and it goes all the way back to the Pilgrims.
So what is racism? - Racism vs Prejudice
“Racism” is a word in the English language. Like all other English words, “racism” has a dictionary definition. That definition is routinely ignored by white American racists when they try to employ projection and “what-about-ism” to claim that blacks are racist too – as if that could ever excuse their own sins in the eyes of GOD.
“Racism” is a word in the English language. Like all other English words, “racism” has a dictionary definition. That definition is routinely ignored by white American racists when they try to employ projection and “what-about-ism” to claim that blacks are racist too – as if that could ever excuse their own sins in the eyes of GOD.
A 1970’s Random House dictionary defines Racism as follows:
1. A belief that human races have distinctive characteristics that determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. A policy enforcing such asserted right.
3. A system of government and society based on it (racism).
Racism is structural and governmental, as well as personal. American racism is a system of government where one race politically and economically oppresses others based on the (sometimes unconscious) belief that it is superior and has the right to do so. Spiritually speaking, racism is the socio-political power to do to others that which you would not have them do to you.
When white Americans project racism onto their traditional victims, it is a refusal to repent – a strategy of the devil that keeps the racist in bondage to a sinful attitude that will take them to hell. That’s all the devil needs, one unrepented sin to take a person to hell forever.
Prejudice is mostly personal. According to the definitions, black Americans don’t have the political power to enforce racism on anyone, but can they be prejudiced? Certainly. You slander GOD by equating an entire race with evil through either prejudice or racism. Of course, that goes for every race against every other race. The victims of racism in the Americas, natives and Africans, are still not allowed to hate the perpetrators of racism – that is what CHRISTIANITY is – forgive in order to be forgiven. Being a victim is not a free pass – unsaved victims are still lost like anyone else.
Scriptural Proof
Racism is so much a part of American culture that most people just seem to accept it as the way things are and don’t think or talk about it in spiritual terms. I get the impression overall, that most Americans – even Black Americans – don’t think of racism as a sin.
According to JESUS’ sermon on the mount, we know that hate is a sin. But what about racism?
Racism is hate so it is most definitely a deadly sin according to the BIBLE because it opposes the main teaching of JESUS; the teaching that JESUS himself called the greatest commandment – LOVE GOD and love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 7:12 I will prove to you that racism is a sin using BIBLE verses – not my opinion. Christians who refuse this simple truth will have to answer for it at the judgement.
Racism is blasphemy
Typically, blasphemy is understood to be speaking disrespectfully about God or making a false accusation against any innocent person. That is, calling someone evil who is not evil. Why is racism blasphemy against GOD? Because GOD created man in his own image. The racist’s attitude toward the race they despise is hate for GOD’s holy image - represented by the saved ones of that race.
Two BIBLE verses, one from the beginning of the BIBLE and one from the end, prove that every race was made in the image of GOD.
According to the BIBLE, all the so-called races are descendants of Noah and therefore directly related to each other. Racists that claim that Africans (or others) are somehow different from or inferior to Europeans, are denying the BIBLE. In the Book of Revelation, an angel shows John all the people who are in heaven, at the end of time:
Rev 7:9 - After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands…”
The original Greek says “every (one and all) nation (éthnos – having a common culture) and all tribes (phylē - descendants of a common ancestor – a race) and peoples and tongues (glōssa - every human language)”. All means all. There is no rational christian argument for one race being superior or more blessed by GOD and another being inferior. In fact, that idea directly contradicts the BIBLE, which shows people of all races being saved. Racism is a creation of Islamic and European imperialism – a self-justification for destroying other people’s lives for the sake of making money. Racism is blasphemous disrespect towards GOD.
Racism is Bearing False Witness
Racists are breaking the 10 commandments every time they decide to justify racism. Exo 20:16 It is bearing false witness when anyone agrees that people deserve mistreatment for being born part of a group that the racist hates. The racist is agreeing to judge an innocent person guilty of whatever stereotypical behavior that that persons’ race is being accused of. Lynching was the most grotesque form of this kind of false witness – carried out for hundreds of years in America - human sacrifice on the altar of white supremacy.
JAS 3:9 …With it (the tongue) we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse (condemn to destruction) men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing….
Racism is Hate and Hate is Murder
In the Sermon on the mount JESUS restated the Ten Commandments for the New Testament covenant. Matt 5-7 JESUS told us that under the new covenant (contract) sinful thoughts and attitudes will carry as much weight as sinful actions at the final judgement.
In Mat 5:21 JESUS tells us that the Old Testament said 'you shall not commit murder' and that murderers will be judged. Then HE goes on to say that under the NT, anyone who is angry with someone for no reason or considers them to be a worthless fool is guilty enough to also be judged and sentenced to hell.
The Greek words for "worthless" and "fool" imply prideful contempt on the part of the person that uses them; the attitude that someone is so far beneath you that they are not even worthy to live. JESUS was talking about prideful people who were arrogantly looking down on others as despicable and sub-human. Racism is the very embodiment of that kind of hatred and contempt. People who hold such attitudes are said by JESUS to be worthy of judgment just like an actual murderer. No murderer can enter heaven:
1 Joh 3:15 - Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Revelation 21:8… But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
1Joh 4:20 If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
If you hate people, people that GOD made in his own image, you hate what GOD has done, you hate what GOD loves. You hate GOD. Therefore, according to the BIBLE, you and your attitude are plainly, simply, and obviously not acceptable in heaven.
1. A belief that human races have distinctive characteristics that determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. A policy enforcing such asserted right.
3. A system of government and society based on it (racism).
Racism is structural and governmental, as well as personal. American racism is a system of government where one race politically and economically oppresses others based on the (sometimes unconscious) belief that it is superior and has the right to do so. Spiritually speaking, racism is the socio-political power to do to others that which you would not have them do to you.
When white Americans project racism onto their traditional victims, it is a refusal to repent – a strategy of the devil that keeps the racist in bondage to a sinful attitude that will take them to hell. That’s all the devil needs, one unrepented sin to take a person to hell forever.
Prejudice is typically defined as a “preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience”.
Prejudice is mostly personal. According to the definitions, black Americans don’t have the political power to enforce racism on anyone, but can they be prejudiced? Certainly. You slander GOD by equating an entire race with evil through either prejudice or racism. Of course, that goes for every race against every other race. The victims of racism in the Americas, natives and Africans, are still not allowed to hate the perpetrators of racism – that is what CHRISTIANITY is – forgive in order to be forgiven. Being a victim is not a free pass – unsaved victims are still lost like anyone else.
Scriptural Proof
Racism is so much a part of American culture that most people just seem to accept it as the way things are and don’t think or talk about it in spiritual terms. I get the impression overall, that most Americans – even Black Americans – don’t think of racism as a sin.
According to JESUS’ sermon on the mount, we know that hate is a sin. But what about racism?
Racism is hate so it is most definitely a deadly sin according to the BIBLE because it opposes the main teaching of JESUS; the teaching that JESUS himself called the greatest commandment – LOVE GOD and love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 7:12 I will prove to you that racism is a sin using BIBLE verses – not my opinion. Christians who refuse this simple truth will have to answer for it at the judgement.
Racism is blasphemy
Typically, blasphemy is understood to be speaking disrespectfully about God or making a false accusation against any innocent person. That is, calling someone evil who is not evil. Why is racism blasphemy against GOD? Because GOD created man in his own image. The racist’s attitude toward the race they despise is hate for GOD’s holy image - represented by the saved ones of that race.
Two BIBLE verses, one from the beginning of the BIBLE and one from the end, prove that every race was made in the image of GOD.
Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
According to the BIBLE, all the so-called races are descendants of Noah and therefore directly related to each other. Racists that claim that Africans (or others) are somehow different from or inferior to Europeans, are denying the BIBLE. In the Book of Revelation, an angel shows John all the people who are in heaven, at the end of time:
Rev 7:9 - After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands…”
The original Greek says “every (one and all) nation (éthnos – having a common culture) and all tribes (phylē - descendants of a common ancestor – a race) and peoples and tongues (glōssa - every human language)”. All means all. There is no rational christian argument for one race being superior or more blessed by GOD and another being inferior. In fact, that idea directly contradicts the BIBLE, which shows people of all races being saved. Racism is a creation of Islamic and European imperialism – a self-justification for destroying other people’s lives for the sake of making money. Racism is blasphemous disrespect towards GOD.
Racism is Bearing False Witness
Racists are breaking the 10 commandments every time they decide to justify racism. Exo 20:16 It is bearing false witness when anyone agrees that people deserve mistreatment for being born part of a group that the racist hates. The racist is agreeing to judge an innocent person guilty of whatever stereotypical behavior that that persons’ race is being accused of. Lynching was the most grotesque form of this kind of false witness – carried out for hundreds of years in America - human sacrifice on the altar of white supremacy.
JAS 3:9 …With it (the tongue) we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse (condemn to destruction) men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing….
Racism is Hate and Hate is Murder
In the Sermon on the mount JESUS restated the Ten Commandments for the New Testament covenant. Matt 5-7 JESUS told us that under the new covenant (contract) sinful thoughts and attitudes will carry as much weight as sinful actions at the final judgement.
In Mat 5:21 JESUS tells us that the Old Testament said 'you shall not commit murder' and that murderers will be judged. Then HE goes on to say that under the NT, anyone who is angry with someone for no reason or considers them to be a worthless fool is guilty enough to also be judged and sentenced to hell.
The Greek words for "worthless" and "fool" imply prideful contempt on the part of the person that uses them; the attitude that someone is so far beneath you that they are not even worthy to live. JESUS was talking about prideful people who were arrogantly looking down on others as despicable and sub-human. Racism is the very embodiment of that kind of hatred and contempt. People who hold such attitudes are said by JESUS to be worthy of judgment just like an actual murderer. No murderer can enter heaven:
1 Joh 3:15 - Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Revelation 21:8… But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
1Joh 4:20 If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
If you hate people, people that GOD made in his own image, you hate what GOD has done, you hate what GOD loves. You hate GOD. Therefore, according to the BIBLE, you and your attitude are plainly, simply, and obviously not acceptable in heaven.
FINAL JUDGEMENT (FOR RACISM)
The final judgement is known in the BIBLE as the Great White Throne Judgement. It is one of the most frightening passages in the BIBLE because it shows people who believe that they are good enough to go to heaven being sentenced to hell instead.
MAT 7:22 and REV 20:11 both refer to this judgement. At the end of time when satan has been destroyed and evil has been conquered, JESUS will judge all the people who were not worthy to make it to heaven in the 1st resurrection, commonly known as the rapture.
In Mat 7:21 Jesus tells us… Not everyone that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day (the final judgement), Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity (sinful christians).
In REV 20:11, these people are thrown in the lake of fire for eternal destruction with satan and his demons.
What does the great white Throne judgement have to do with racism and deception in the American Church?
Add up the verses: hateful attitudes = murder; murderers go to hell. Many seemingly decent people are headed to hell because they don’t fear (respect) GOD enough to repent of pride. They think that their good works, good intentions, and self-justifications cancel out their evil attitudes, their prejudices, their racism, hate, love of money, etc. People really do think they can fool GOD. Of course, JESUS sees right through them and their good works are rejected as meaningless because their hearts are evil. You are saved by your internal Christ-like attitude (the narrow way) – not by your partial actions (broad road christianity of compromise). You can only be saved by claiming the sinlessness of JESUS, by true repentance, prayer and obedience. That is the salvation message of the BIBLE.
You Cannot Be Saved If You Hate
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