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A Christian is saved from his sins at the moment he comes out of the baptismal water for the removal of his sins. But that does not mean he has conquered all the distorted areas of his life that his old self had learned. All of that has to now be retrained, so a Christian who may be a racist MAY simply not have seen or addressed that area of his life yet. Racism is from Darwin evolution thinking, not from God because Christ died for all, which makes us equal. A Christian needs to be growing or he will slip back into his old life and loose his salvation.
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Jesus provided for us what one of the identifying marks of a true Christian would be at John 13:34,35
I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are my disciples—if you have love among yourselves.”
A true Christian would love others no matter what the color of their skin is.
God doesn't view people differently based on their physical appearance
Acts 10:34,35
Now I truly understand that God is not partial, 35 but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.
Sadly, many who claim to be Christian are in actuality false Christians. They claim to be followers of Jesus but their actions prove otherwise.
Jesus said this would occur. That is why he provided the identifying marks of his true followers. Another is they would follow his example in preaching about God's Kingdom(Matthew 28:19,20, Luke 4:43, John 14:12)
Nandan_Mallick
Thirty years after the heyday of the Civil Rights movement, racial issues in the US remain sensitive. Racial quotas in the workplace and academia continue to be controversial. Prominent corporations are accused of racist practices. Certain supremacy groups promote the Bible, God and the white race. Race and politics interact in ways that carry both national and international significance.
A few years back, the Southern Baptist Convention made headlines for renouncing racism, condemning slavery and apologizing for the church’s intolerant past. That laudable contrition raised a deeper question: Why would Christianity ever be associated with racial oppression in the first place? How did the faith whose founder told people to “love one another” ever become linked with human bondage and social apartheid?
African-American theologian James Cone notes that “In the old slavery days, the Church preached that slavery was a divine decree, and it used the Bible as the basis of its authority.”{1}
“Not only did Christianity fail to offer the … [Black] hope of freedom in the world, but the manner in which Christianity was communicated to him tended to degrade him. The … [Black] was taught that his enslavement was due to the fact that he had been cursed by God. … Parts of the Bible were carefully selected to prove that God had intended that the…[Black] should be the servant of the white man….”{2}
As a white baby boomer growing up in the South, I experienced segregated schools, restrooms, drinking fountains and beaches. My parents taught and modeled equality, so the injustice I saw saddened me deeply. I was appalled that the Ku Klux Klan used the Bible and the cross in its rituals.
During college, a friend brought an African-American student to a church I attended in North Carolina. The next Sunday, the pastor announced that because of “last week’s racial incident” (the attendance of a Black), church leaders had voted to maintain their longstanding policy of racial segregation. Thereafter, any Blacks attending would be handed a note explaining the policy and asking that they not return. I was outraged and left the church. (Postscript: A few years ago I learned that that white church had folded and that an African-American church came to use the same facility. Maybe God has a sense of humor.)
Anonymous
No, since it teaches all human descent from Adam, or Noah.
Those who doesn't adopt this teach had a bigger chance to ignore racism, if not agree racism
Haeo
"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
Galatians 3:28
"a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all."
Colossians 3:11
"Opening his mouth, Peter said: "I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him."
Acts 10:34-35
Any racist "christian" has to ignore these verses in order to continue in his racism.