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Recovering biblical anthropology and the true meaning of race<\/p>\n
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SUBSCRIBE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.10.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”19px||26px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” width_last_edited=”on|phone” width_phone=”93%” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.5.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Abel|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#e02b20″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” text_text_color_tablet=”” text_text_color_phone=”” text_text_color_last_edited=”on|phone” header_font_size_tablet=”” header_font_size_phone=”28px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Christians have adopted a concept of race that is completely antithetical to God\u2019s definition in Scripture.<\/p>\n The consequences of this redefinition have been devastating to our societies, culture and Christian witness. When those who claim to uphold biblical truths and live by them adopt foreign man-centered definitions and concepts and then import them into their theology, massive worldview implications ensue. Ideas always have consequences and bad ideas have victims.<\/p>\n The Bible is clear, there is only ONE race – the human race.<\/strong><\/p>\n Race, Not Races:<\/strong> Nations – Ethnos:<\/strong> The Christian must understand that the modern concept of race does not find any foundational support in the Bible. \u2018Race\u2019 does not mean different \u2019nations\u2019 or \u2018ethnicities\u2019 as modern Christians might assume. It actually is rooted in the (bad) idea that the human race is made up of many species of humans. We must ask, is that true? And what are the ramifications of a false premise or presupposition? How do meanings of words impact reality and our lives?<\/p>\n The language of the Bible is clear and unifying all humans are of one race. To argue otherwise is to introduce foreign secular sociological and anthropological concepts into biblical theology, sociology, and biblical anthropology. The consequence is that this importation of foreign concepts distort the meaning of the Bible and our worldview. This bad idea ends up creating moral confusion and division among people. We are witnessing this in this cultural moment.<\/a><\/p>\n Races – Samuel Morton, Scientific Racism and Craniometry:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cSamuel George Morton is often thought of as the originator of “American School” ethnography, a school of thought in antebellum American science that claimed the difference between humans was one of species rather than variety and is seen by some as the origin of scientific racism.<\/p>\n Morton argued against the single creation story of the Bible (monogenism) and instead supported a theory of multiple racial creations (polygenism). Morton claimed the Bible supported polygenism, and within working in a biblical framework his theory held that each race had been created separately and each was given specific, irrevocable characteristics.<\/p>\n Morton claimed that he could define the intellectual ability of a race by the skull capacity. A large volume meant a large brain and high intellectual capacity, and a small skull indicated a small brain and decreased intellectual capacity. He was reputed to hold the largest collection of skulls, on which he based his research. He claimed that each race had a separate origin, and that a descending order of intelligence could be discerned that placed Caucasians at the pinnacle and Negroes at the lowest point, with various other race groups in between.” (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMorton was heavily influenced in his thinking by the 19th century practice of phrenology (the now abandoned field of study which used the shape of the skull to determine personality traits) and the theories of hereditarianism (a school of thought that saw heredity playing a major role in determining traits such as intelligence and personality) and polygenism (a school of thought that saw human races as created separately and unequal).\u201d (source)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Morton\u2019s theory had an influence on Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution in \u201cOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.<\/a>\u201d Darwin bought into Morton\u2019s presupposition that some species of humans were superior to others. The ramifications of this type of thinking continues to be seen in our current day.<\/p>\nThe word and concept of \u2018race\u2019 has been distorted over the last 150 years.<\/h1>\n
The Bible is also clear that the one human race takes on a variety of beautiful physical features and expressions. The Bible speaks of tongues, tribes, peoples and nations. It speaks to the prismatic qualities of the individual and the diverse qualities of different people from different places. Like fields of flowers or oceans of fish, the world is full of the human race in all its fullness, variety, and beauty.<\/p>\n
Recovering the language and meaning of the truths rooted in scripture is extremely important. Words and meaning form and shape how we understand and interact with reality. The word \u2019Nations\u2019 in the Bible comes from the Greek, \u201cEthnos\u201d which is where we get the word \u2018ethnicity\u2019 and \u2018ethnicities\u2019. We are ONE race but many nations or ethnicities. That is the language of the Bible!<\/p>\n\n