It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
God cares about people regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, and social status (Deuteronomy 10:17-19).
"God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right" (Acts 10:34-35).
"We were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
I see some confusion of race and religion though. We have the same problems in modern times when we talk about both the peoples who live in Israel and Muslims.
Yes, you are correct in that I saw the same after I posted. Was it Joseph's religion that kept him from eating with the Egyptians or was it his race? But are not both so intertwined that they cannot be separated? An example of this is when a man would ask to be accepted into Judaism, and go through all the hoops of becoming a Jew, he would still be an outsider of the tabernacle because he still had no tribe of the twelve to claim. He had no standard to claim nor blood to present even though he was accepted as being a candidate for the bundle of life. By today's standards would that be racist?
edit on 19-9-2017 by Seede because: (no reason given)edit on 19-9-2017 by Seede because: malfunction in sending
I see some confusion of race and religion though. We have the same problems in modern times when we talk about both the peoples who live in Israel and Muslims.
a reply to: Seede Many religions have a "chosen" people. Everyone else is damned. I think the Bible is the word of man used as propaganda to manipulate the people in accepting war and killing the non-chosen people without any moral complaints. Just look at the way this Christian nation treats Muslims. The first step in all war propaganda is to demonize your so called "enemy". All wars are for profit and power.
Text I'd say no. Racism is a human construct. God loves everyone equally.
Deut 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
God cares about people regardless of their ethnicity, nationality, and social status (Deuteronomy 10:17-19).
Acts 10:34 ¶ Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
"God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right" (Acts 10:34-35).
1Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
"We were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink” (1 Corinthians 12:13).
Oh a Pandora's Box that has been open. Hi ya Seede, how are ya brother?