RACISM & SLAVERY...
There's a lot of criticism of The Bible being the reason for justifying slavery, especially in the Civil War era of the United States... Mormonism especially promoting the belief that the Negro race were black because they were accursed by God... This is far from the truth though. Many of the African and Native American Indian races, as well as some Asians, see Christianity as a Caucasian Religion...
Africans and Native Indians believe their race should go back to Paganism and Asian believe their race should go back to Buddhism or any of the Eastern Philosophies, but when we look at the Bible and see that Christianity isn't a religion for the Caucasians, but for every race...
Yes, I am a Caucasian woman, and even though my race has gotten the stereotype of being the most racist, mainly because of the Ku Klux Klan who claim to be basing their beliefs off the Bible... This is nothing more but a false doctrine and stereotype... I HATE racism and wish everyone would realize that racists come from all races. Africans kept white slaves, too, but we fail to study that. Don't play the race card, racism goes both ways.
In fact, I am in an interracial marriage, I am married to a Filipino (Asian) man... And he will agree with me that our relationship has received more scorn from the Asian race than the Caucasian race... It doesn't matter though, for we all descend from Adam and Eve... We're all brothers and sisters... If you got your DNA tested to see what Ethnic group is in your bloodline... You'd be surprise what you would find, possibly a race in your bloodline you are racist towards...
I haven't gotten this DNA test done yet, but my husband and I do plan to. Good examples for now are these two men, one a racist himself, another a Pastor who gives a good sermon on racism.
First, Craig Cobb is a White Supremacist who wants to have an all Caucasian town in North Dakota. He is most racist towards blacks. His DNA was tested and the results came in that he was 14% Sub-Saharan African. Shocked and disgusted by these results he was embarrassed and in denial.
Second, Pastor Steven Anderson, I do not agree completely with him doctrinally, but he has made some good documentaries debunking false doctrines that I will recommend. He had his DNA tested —This man looking Caucasian as can be — turned out to have a lot of African on dad's side and a lot of Asian on mom's side. Caucasian parents didn't see that coming! He had a lot of Egyptian and Arabic as well in his DNA. He was never told he had ancestors from Egypt... He was told he was Swedish, Irish, etc... No, Swedish or Irish in the test results... His Caucasian skin comes from Polish and Russian. Was never told that. I recommend watching his sermon on YouTube titled, "Interracial Marriage" by Steven Anderson or his YouTube account is Sanderson1611.
If you're a racist... You hate a certain race, go get DNA tested and I bet you have what race you hate in your test results. I have been told I am Irish, French and Native Indian... But I won't be surprised I could have Asian or African in my bloodline. Let's go to a Biblical explanation for all this now...
Galatians 3:28 - "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
So whether you are a Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female... You can be saved! We are all one, because we all come from Adam and Eve. We have one racist Chinese man that always criticizes my Asian husband for Evangelizing with Caucasians... He says whites should be friends with whites, Asians friends with Asians, blacks friends with blacks... He tries to use The Bible to convince my husband that only the Israelite race, Jews, will be saved. But then how do we explain how the New Testament preaches whether Jew or Gentile... You can be saved... Whatever race, social status, gender... As long as you accept Jesus as Savior, you can be saved. The ones who call themselves Jews, Israeli are not necessarily saved...
Revelation 2:9 - "I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and [I know] the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but [are] the synagogue of Satan."
Galatians 4:22-31 - "22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he [who was] of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman [was] by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written, Rejoice, [thou] barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, even so [it is] now. 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free."
Many take this is the literal/physical sense... Saying that, "Children who are born from slave mothers are despised. This verse doesn't recognize children born from slave mothers as normal sons because they are not allowed to inherit. This verse doesn't recognize slaves as equal to normal human beings. This verse agrees fully 100% with slavery and enslaving people."
Far from the truth... Hagar/Agar was an Egyptian slave to Sarah the free-woman... Both of these women bore Abraham a son... Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, who is the father to the Arabic Race and Sarah, the mother of Isaac, the father to the Israelite race... This doesn't mean that only the Israelite race is saved, and the rest are slaves... Yes, the other races such as the Arabic fell into worshipping Pagan gods and then Islam, as well as the Caucasian Europeans were as well Pagan and created the Roman Catholic Church which is a Pagan-Christian hybrid... Everyone outside the Monotheist Israelite race, all the other tribes fell into Polytheist beliefs... Even the Israelites fell into Pagan practices and the Jews to this day refuse to accept Jesus as their prophesied Messiah.
When God told the Israelites not to intermarry, it wasn't about skin color, it was the gods the other tribes were worshipping and Lord Jesus didn't want the Israelites being influenced by the Pagans.
Deuteronomy 7:3-4 - "3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you."
What does this all mean? It means, no matter what your ancestry, you as a Jew or Gentile can be saved if you convert... Let's look back at a few verses before...
Galatians 4:5-9 - "5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. 8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?"
What this verse is saying is... Whether you are a Jew that clings to the Law or a Gentile that clings to your Pagan gods... You can be adopted into the spiritual family of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who lived by faith and were saved by Grace through faith. You can be adopted into this family whoever you are if you accept Jesus Christ! Why do you not accept and still turn to and insist to cling to the Law (Jews) or cling to your gods (Pagans or Gentiles) that are not true gods?
Acts 11:18 - "When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."
Gentile... A gentile is a non-Jewish person, so this idea that only the promised Israelite people will be saved is heretical. By now we all have Jewish DNA in our own bloodline. We all come from Adam and Eve, Noah and his children, Shem, Japheth and Ham. Before I go into explaining the creation of different races, let me point out a few more verses to further my point...
Acts 13:36 - "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles."
So, Paul and Barnabas were sick of the the snobby Jews and Pharisees denying Jesus as God the Messiah, denying eternal life, so even though these Jews were direct bloodline descendants of Abraham and Isaac, they had become arrogant and self-righteous, so Paul pretty much said, "Goodbye! See ya! We're going to preach to people who will hear the Word of The Lord since the Gentiles are more receptive and willing to accept Lord Jesus."
Acts 14:27 - "And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles."
Opened the door of faith to the Gentiles, so if you are a Gentile, a non-Jew you still can be saved IF you have faith in Lord Jesus.
Acts 18:6 - "And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook [his] raiment, and said unto them, Your blood [be] upon your own heads; I [am] clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles."
Paul getting annoyed by the Jews again, notice how he quotes what is said in Ezekiel3:18-19. If Salvation was only for the Jews, then why throughout the New Testament the Apostles are going to preach unto the Gentiles? Even The Lord Jesus at the earthly age of 12 preached and prophesied that the Gentiles would be preached to and saved...
Luke 2:32 - "A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel."
Paul fulfilled this prophesy and quotes the words of his Lord...
Acts 13:47 - "For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth."
So all I can say to you, even if you are a slave in the physical, do not be a slave in the spiritual, but be saved and freed from your sin by Lord Jesus!
1 Corinthians 7:23 - "You were bought with a price. Do not become slaves of men."
The Old Testament said slaves may be kept in Leviticus 25 and other chapters, but many take this out of context as well as the Israelites of that time. They did not treat their slaves the way God commanded them to be treated...
Leviticus 25:53 - [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him."
So the slave shall be as a hired worker and shall not be treated harshly. How is this any different than hiring a maid or a babysitter in your home?
Exodus 21:26-27 -"26 If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake."
If you beat your slave you are to set your slave free, so everything the Confederate States said was Biblical was in truth, heresy. They were NOT to treat their black slaves harshly, but treat them with respect and give them money or goods for their service. Since even Israel was not following God's commandments how to treat their slaves, The Lord commanded Israel to let their slaves go free...
Jeremiah 34:8-10 - "8 [This is] the word that came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which [were] at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, [being] an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let [them] go."
The Lord says here that you shall not enslave your brother or sister, and we are all brothers and sisters... We all come from Adam and Eve, we are all to treat each other with love and respect. I am a Caucasian woman, I have Native American blood in my veins and maybe other races that would surprise me... I am married to a Filipino... Our children will be Filipino-American... Half-breed... But aren't we all "mutts" by now? After these thousands of years of being on Earth?
To my knowledge I'm Irish, French, Native and my husband is Filipino (originally a Negro race), Chinese, Spanish, possibly Indian... How much more ethnic groups are in our DNA that we are unaware of? So our children will be... Irish, French, Spanish, Chinese, Native American... Filipino-Americans? And you know what? Our children will be BEAUTIFUL, a God given gift like every child is, no matter how much they'll be picked on for being a "half-breed", no matter how much racism they'll get for looking different and unique. We all have red blood running through our veins no matter what skin color covers the blood inside.
Jesus shed His blood for us, so I don't care what color Jesus' flesh was... He died for all of us. Maybe He was black since King Solomon was black, or rather brown-skinned who tanned (brown people tan dark if left out in the sun, I know, I have a Filipino husband) and Jesus came from that family line of Solomon... Song of Solomon 1:6. But, IT DOESN'T MATTER. He died for you, love Jesus for what He did, not for what He looked like. All we know is He didn't have long hair, looking like Cesare Borgia. 1 Corinthians 11:14.
Isaiah 53:2 - "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him."
John 7:24 - "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
Judge someone according to their character! Not by their appearance! Don't judge someone by their outwardly beauty, but their inwardly beauty.
Now let me go into explaining the different races... Coming all from Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth... Genesis 7:13.
Ham was the father of Cush who was the father of Nimrod who we already learned was the King of Babylon (Babel), married to Semiramis who indoctrinated the world into Paganism. Genesis 10:6-10. All Ham's descendants were various Canaanite tribes, Pagans.
Shem was the great, great, great, great, great, great, great-grandfather of Abraham. Genesis 11:11-26. And from Abraham on we know the Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. So Jesus comes from the line of Noah's son, Shem.
Japheth was the father to the Gentiles! Genesis 10:2-5... So how can Gentiles not be saved and only the Jews when an Israelite, Noah's son, Japheth is the father to the Gentiles. And this verse, which I believe is a fulfillment of prophecy...
Genesis 9:26-27 - "26 He also said, "Worthy of praise is the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem! 27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
So the followers of faith, who were Jesus' ancestors and the future descendants of Japheth father of the Gentiles are to be saved, but the descendants of Ham went off to serve false gods in Babylon. To save the people from their wickedness in Babel (Babylon) God created many different languages and spread people out into the world. Genesis 11:1-9.
To say that these three sons are directly responsible for whites, blacks and brown races is a fraud. They had to intermarry with each other and they're not going to marry sister, going to prefer to marry a cousin. From the time of The Flood to the generation of Peleg was about 100 years of living in unity and intermarrying together before Babel, we know it was in Peleg's generating things changed. Genesis 10:25. So the idea of a purebred race is a MYTH. They were already interbreeding, all of Noah's grandchildren were interbreeding! Chosen people is not about race.
If a black man marries a white woman and they have "halfbreed" children and then those children marry black partners and their children all marry black partners... You're not going to see just by looking at them that they had a great grandmother who was white. Forgotten. Vise versa if white man marries black or Asian woman, etc. Can weed out the differences with majority ethnicity brought into family.
So, yes, it is possible that the majority of Japheth's decedents had less melanin in the gene pool and Ham's decedents had more, but we still all have interbred, there is no "pure" race. We've already interbred so much in these thousands of years on Earth together. So if you are a person who believes in God, the Genesis story you have no excuse to be racist because we all come from Adam and Eve. The Evolutionist is more likely to be racist, but that doesn't seem like a evolved mindset. It leads to Eugenics, and weeding out non-desirable races as Adolf Hitler did in creating his, "Aryan Race", Hitler's ideals were influenced by Darwinism!
We're all of the same blood and same family. We are not different races, we are one race, a Human Race! We can see different varieties in our human race... Mongoloid, Negroid, Caucasoid... But we're all still human. A dog is still a dig whether a Great Dane or Chihuahua, both come from Wolves, just because there is differences doesn't mean isn't from a line. A canine is a canine and a human is a human and we've all interbred to create different varieties.
We know that all humans on earth today are descended from Noah and his wife, his three sons, Shem, Japheth, Ham and their wives, and before that from Adam and Eve. Noah and his family were probably mid-brown, with genes for both dark and light skin, because a medium skin color would seem to be the most generally suitable — Dark enough to protect against the sun, yet light enough to allow vitamin D production. So all these factors for skin color were present in Adam and Eve, they would most likely have been mid-brown as well, but have dark skin and light skin in their genes even though they themselves were brown people with brown eyes and brown or black hair. In fact, most of the world's population today is still mid-brown.
We all learn this in biology, A representing mother and B representing father... capital M for lots of melanin, lower-case m for little melanin. If we have a black mother and white father... MAMA and mBmB produces a brown child, MAmB. Look at a Punnet square for more examples.
If people with MAMAMBMB, who are “pure” black, were to intermarry and migrate to a place where their offspring could not marry other people of lighter color, all their descendants would be black because of isolation. If people with mAmAmBmB, who are "pure" white people were to marry only other whites and migrate to a place where their offspring could not marry people with darker skin, their race would stay white due to isolation. Same goes for brown people, MAMAmBmB or mAmAMBMB.
Why we have different races is due to isolating a certain set of genes. If all the people on earth were to intermarry freely, let's take one interracial example, every black and Asian couple producing babies with black skin and almond eyes and then to isolate these babies to only produce with other black and Asian children... We would have the creation of a new race. So this is how the creation of the other skin colors came about... From Genesis 11, we see people were forced to scatter to the North, East and South. So all the people races... Black Africans, Indo-Europeans, Mongolians, and others have come into existence since Babel.
It is unlikely that each small group would carry the same broad range of skin colors as the original, larger group. One group might have more dark genes, on average, while another might have more light genes. As these groups migrated away from Babel, they encountered new and different climate zones. This would also have affected the balance of inherited factors in the population.
A group of people who migrated to the North, the dark-skinned members with more melanin in their genes would not be able to produce enough vitamin D, and thus would be less healthy and have fewer children. So, in time, the light-skinned members would predominate. Vise versa for light-skinned people who migrated South, they would be burned and develop skin cancer, so the people with lots of melanin predominating in their genes would predominate in this region of the world. This is Natural Selection, weeding out characteristics that are already present, not creating new genes.
But what about the brown-skinned Native Americans in North America? The Inuit, Eskimos in Alaska? Why is their skin darker if are living in places with little to no sun? Or Native South Americans not having black skin? Why? Well... They are brown, their genetic makeup being, MAMAmBmB. They are suited to live in hot or cold temperatures, not as comfortably as black or white people, but they nonetheless can survive, as I said in the start of this explanation, brown people are dark enough to protect against the sun, yet light enough to allow vitamin D production. How they got to America was by migrating, so they're not really that Native... "Native" Americans migrated across the Bering Straight from Asia, so the Native Indians are a Mongoloid race.
So my husband is a Mongoloid, even though he hates that term because it is means retarded. He's very smart though! Nonetheless, I'm a Caucasoid and my husband is a Mongoloid... If you want to rebuke me for an interracial marriage, go ahead! Just make sure your Biblical though before you get embarrassed... Israelites are not just about the state of Israel, you become an Israelite if you worship the God of the Israelites.
Moses was married to a Cushite, (Ethiopian) woman. Numbers 12:1-16. And God was angry with Aaron and Miriam for criticizing that marriage. So here we have Moses, brown man, Egyptian looking with a black woman. Others... Rahab and Ruth, Gentile women... They were both accepted into the community of believers. They are even in the genealogical line of Lord Jesus Christ! Matthew 1:5. As well as King David's wife, Bathsheba who was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, so most likely she was a foreigner, a Hittite. God doesn't care about your skin color, He cares about the contents of your heart. God bless.
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