Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel – Race/Ethnicity | Rapp Report Daily 0148 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. The statement on social justice and the gospel is available at statementonsocialjustice .com
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- Article number 7, race and ethnicity. We affirm that God made all people from one man.
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- Though people can often be distinguished by different ethnicities and nationalities, they are ontologically equals before God in both creation and redemption.
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- 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.
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- All that is good, honest, just, and beautiful in various ethnic backgrounds and experiences can be celebrated as fruit of God's grace.
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- 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.
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- We deny that Christians should segregate themselves into racial groups or regard racial identity above or even equal to their identity in Christ.
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- 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.
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- We reject any teaching that encourages racial groups to view themselves as privileged oppressors or entitled victims of oppression.
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- 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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