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Aug 7, 2020 · With eyes wide open to the colorfulness of distinction, we can see the full beauty of humanity. It is often suggested (usually by white brothers and sisters in Christ) that the good news of Jesus ...
Sep 25, 2015 · The most important color to God, if any, is red—the red that flowed from Christ’s veins and now covers his redeemed people; we are a new, supernatural “race” being renewed (1 Peter 2:9; also, Eph. 2:15). Likewise, in the church, Christians should strive to love and think of all humans as equal image bearers created by God.
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In addressing the concept of colorblindness, Christian apologist Neil Shenvi makes a helpful distinction between two definitions of the term: 1. Free from racial prejudice (something to which we should all aspire) 2. Ignoring race, or “not seeing” race (illustrated by Newbell’s example above) Because there is near universal agreement that Christian...
In his letter to the Galatian church, the Apostle Paul writes the following: “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” The first thing to note is the complete absence of any mention of skin color. Instead, Paul addresses three specific categories: Jews and Gentiles...
Relying on Galatians 3:28 to promote colorblindness also reveals a faulty hermeneutic. When interpreting various Scripture passages, our exegesis errs if we fail to recognize the difference between justification and sanctification. To confuse the two is to confuse the very nature of salvation, as well as our relationship with God. Part of the confu...
If Galatians 3:28legitimately endorses the act of ignoring another’s skin color, it endorses much more than a proponent of colorblindness would care to admit. As proof, let us briefly evaluate each of the three pairs of distinctions Paul addresses in this verse. 1. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile” If Paul is teaching us to ignore differences betw...
If by “colorblind” proponents mean simply “Free from racial prejudice,” there are numerous biblical passages that would speak, even if only indirectly, to the goal of being prejudice-free. In that sense, one could say the Bible doespromote colorblindness. However, there is a lack of Scriptural support for “ignoring or not seeing race.” And if passa...
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Have you ever heard someone say, “I don’t see race. I’m colorblind.”? In a time when our country is dealing with increasing racial tensions, how Christians view the issue of race, color, and ethnicity is continuing to grow in importance. While identifying as colorblind is usually well-intended by those who use that label, does ...
To identify someone by skin color would have been wildly inaccurate; it was just one more physical characteristic, and had little to do with language, custom or tradition. To them, our modern racial distinctions about skin color would have been as irrelevant as talking about people with large thumbs, or bald people.
Dec 20, 2021 · His book, The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era parses the theories and practices animating white evangelical thinking on race since 1960. He shows that, over three decades, “Colorblind Christianity” went from a Civil Rights call-to-arms to a rearguard action in defense of whiteness.
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Nov 18, 2014 · The following case study utilizes in-depth qualitative interviews and participant observation data in order to examine how color-blindness operates in a diverse Christian fraternity.
