Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel – Race/Ethnicity | Rapp Report Daily 0148 | Striving for Eternity

Race and Ethnicity in the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel

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The statement on social justice in the gospel is available at statementonsocialjustice .com, article number 7, race and ethnicity. We affirm that God made all people from one man. Though people can often be distinguished by different ethnicities and nationalities, they are ontologically equals before God in both creation and redemption.

Race is not a biblical category, but rather a social construct that often has been used to classify groups of people in terms of inferior or superior. All that is good, honest, just, and beautiful in various ethnic backgrounds and experiences can be celebrated as fruit of God's grace.

All sinful actions and their results, including evils perpetrated between and upon one ethnic group by others, are to be classified as sinful, repented of, and repudiated. We deny that Christians should segregate themselves into racial groups or regard racial identity above or even equal to their identity in Christ.

We deny that any divisions between people groups, from an understated attitude of superiority or to an overt spirit of resentment, have any legitimate place in the fellowship of the redeemed. We reject any teaching that encourages racial groups to view themselves as privileged oppressors or entitled victims of oppression.

While we are to weep with those who weep, we deny that a person's feelings of offense or opposition necessarily prove that someone else is guilty of sinful behaviors, oppression, or prejudice.

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