RACISM IS SIN!

ALL OF US ARE OF ONE FAMILY! 

Genesis 1:26-27; 3:30 - And God said, Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.  So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. . . . And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Acts 17:24, 26 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, . . . and has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth....

IF LOVE FULFILLS THE LAW; HATE BREAKS IT!

Matthew 22:36-40 - Master, which is the great commandment in the Law?  Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets.

Romans 13:8-10 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another:  for he that loves another has fulfilled the Law.  For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  Love workes no ill to his neighbor:  therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law.

Galatians 5:13-14 - For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

JUST AS ALL HUMANS ARE SINNERS;

ALL HUMANS TEND TO BE RACIST!

Romans 3:10, 23; 5:12 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one . . . . For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (short of God's standard of love). . . . Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

SOME PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS!

As a teenager, in the early 1950's, I saw an estimated crowd of 5000 Whites gathered to drive a Black family out of my neighborhood, in Detroit, Michigan!

In 1960, I saw a "all Whites Dime Store" refuse service to Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia!

In 1963, I led a "walk out" of our Navy football team when a bar and grill refused to serve my friend Gary Seavers; it was in Patuxent River, Maryland!

In 1965, as they were being arrested, I called one of three Blacks who physically attacked me, a "Black...."  Even though I did not complete the racist cuss word, I immediately felt shame.

In 1989, I was the only White member of the Baptist Student Fellowship on Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; I joined because the group was known by the entire school, faculty, staff, and student body, as the "Black Student Fellowship!"  At one of our meetings for Bible study, I answered the door, only to be told by a Black student, "I must be in the wrong place!"  After assuring him he was in the right place, he entered and shook everyone's hand but mine; he repeated the disrespectful slight at the end of the meeting.  

RACISM IS EVIL; IT NOT ONLY HURTS OTHERS,

IT IS BASED UPON A FALSE SENSE OF SUPERIORITY!

IT IS TOTALLY INCONSISTENT WITH THE TEACHINGS

OF JESUS CHRIST, THE TRUE CHRISTIAN'S LORD!