Bible Discussion Thread

This Scripture addresses the heart of what racism is. Hatred for another human being period whether you are the same skin color or culture or a different culture and ideology combines hatred with murder and racism. This ALL started with the first racist murderer Cain who killed his brother Abel at the start. In history slavery started in the Middle East and Africa which carried on the legacy of Cain. The same thing occurred in the Americas with white slave owners who murdered black slaves. NOW today in the 21st there is the seed of Cain in ALL forms of racist hatred and murder between white, black, brown and tan as America is going into the 2020 meltdown. Systematic racism and murder is ONLY cured by Faith in Christ alone. This social engineering of Marxism and destroying history is a cover up for humanity's need of a savior to deliver us from the deadly systematic sin of racist hatred and murder in our hearts.

Paul, your spiritual definition of racism is correct, that its root is found in man's hatred of another & that based on his race or culture & ideology. I could even add, that man's sin of believing he is of greater worth than another, would also lead to his view & treatment of others. Fortunately, most of us endeavour to treat everyone equally, but this sin of superiority permeates every area of society, with its seed in each of us. However, I don't see that Cain was the first racist murderer: he & Abel were of the same race, culture & ideology, but that Abel's offering was respected by God & Cain's was not seems to be the motive.

I can't seem to ascertain the 'first racial murder' except to think of God's command to the Israelites to drive out & destroy the Anakim & other nations ( Deut 9:1-3) but that was based on the nations' wickedness & for the possession of those lands for Israel. So, in a sense, Israel was commanded to seek & destroy based on another's race & religion.

Slavery, we discern, started with Abraham ( Gen 12:16) & when the Law came ( Lev 25:44-46). Further direction was given as to the treatment of slaves ( Ex 21). Admittedly, slavery then would have been quite different in many respects to what we term as 'modern slavery', where slaves legally had a better life & protections & on the whole were treated as part of the family community (especially when a slave turned to Judaism).

Every government which has laws in place that afford their citizens equality & freedom to practise their faith, culture, language, etc., must also ensure that those laws are respected & applied in every area of society. What we're seeing now is that failure in policing those laws & indeed, turning a blind eye to the 'minorities' in society & possibly even harbouring those racist tendencies within their own walls.

Seems like the media pushes all the blame for racism on whites.

Why do they hate whites who printed Bibles and built churches? Europe and the USA did

Bible book Song of Solomon 5:10 - My beloved is WHITE white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

Bible book Lamentations 4:7 - Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were WHITER whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

Revelation 1:14 - His [Jesus] HEAD head and his hairs were WHITE white like wool, as WHITE white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 And his feet like unto fine brass,

[Brass is made of copper which is REDDISH GOLDEN, not black] as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

I am curious if the Lord made a mistake when he put whites in Europe and blacks in Africa?

Deuteronomy 32:8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

Your point is accepted and well taken since you stick with scripture by itself. We must NOT let the culture social engineer our understanding of the BIBLE. ONLY the Lord himself by His Spirit is to give us the proper and corrected understanding of scripture. Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.