Racism
and Christianity are fundamentally at odds with each other. Racism evaluates
people on the basis of genetics while Christianity evaluates people on the
basis of the attitudes of their hearts.
Racism teaches that the quality of a person's life is unchangeable while
Christianity teaches that the quality of a person's life can be changed by
divine grace. Racism believes that biological father determines a person's
worth, while Christianity believes that all men are of equal worth before God
and other men. There can be no room for racist attitude among those who claim
to be followers of Christ. Cultural patterns may be different, but in the body
of Christ, we must be open and sensitive to one another. The things that
divided us before should no longer divide us now.
Paul
indicated that Jesus Christ, the son of God came into this world just like
everyone else. He was born of a woman so that He can identify with us. Jesus
was born under the Mosaic law and delivered us from the curse of the Law,
making us God's adopted children. This privilege allows us to receive the Holy
spirit and the spirit of Christ in us cries out ''Abba Father''. The result of
sonship is that we are no longer slaves f the law, but full heirs with God.
Paul's
letter to the Galatians was written to correct the judaizers who wanted to put
the people back under the law by compelling them to be circumcised. In order to
convince them of their error, Paul used their own weapon against them. He
appealed to the law to demonstrate that
the law could not justify. Those who follow the law can never be heirs with the
children of promise. Our life of faith subjects us to pressures from both right
and left. Those from the left ridicule us for our life of obedience and those
from the right want us to adopt more rules and regulations to control our
lives.
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