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3 Reasons Racial Supremacy Isn't Christian

8/16/2017

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With the tragic and evil events of Charlottesville still firmly implanted in our collective conscience, Christians need to speak with clarity on this topic. One of the first topics on the agenda needs to be drawing a line in the sand between racial supremacy and Christianity. They are mutually exclusive. Here are three reason racial supremacy can’t coexist with biblical Christianity.

1. Racial supremacy is an assault on the imago dei

When God created human beings, he made them distinct from every other life form. He made them in his image and likeness (i.e. imago dei; Gen. 1:26-27). The imago dei carries with it a dignity no other part of creation has. When God decided to create humans beings with this elevated value, he did NOT arbitrarily assign differing values among his image bearers. They ALL possesses equal dignity in the eyes of their Creator.

Racial supremacy is an assault on this truth. It is, as it were, shaking one’s fist at the Creator God to protest the way in which he made us and to prop oneself up as ‘god’. Racial supremacy declares oneself to have autonomy apart from the true God by its nauseating insistence that there exists a superior race.

2. Racial supremacy is a rejection of the gospel

On the cross, Jesus did not discriminate among or between races in whom would be the beneficiaries of his atoning work. He died in the place of human beings from every race so that every race may be joined to him by grace through faith.

Racial supremacy is ultimately a rejection of the gospel itself for it fails to acknowledge that the benefits of the cross-work of Christ are applied across every race and ethnicity.

3. Racial supremacy stands diametrically opposed to the conditions of heaven

To be straightforward: heaven will be racially diverse (Rev. 5:9). To paraphrase another pastor, if you don’t long for racial reconciliation, then heaven isn’t the place for you because that’s exactly one of the glorious conditions of heaven itself.

So as you can see, racial supremacy stands in opposition to at least three of the core tenants of biblical Christianity. That puts it well outside the zip code of biblical Christianity. While racial supremacists can gather in church buildings, make no mistake about it, they aren’t Christians!
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