Comments on: Does the Bible Support or Dismantle Racism? https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/10/12/does-the-bible-support-or-dismantle-racism/ Exploring New Testament Scholarship, Anglicanism, and the Black Experience Fri, 17 May 2019 07:13:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeff Young https://esaumccaulley.com/2017/10/12/does-the-bible-support-or-dismantle-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:34:19 +0000 http://esaumccaulley.com/?p=1762#comment-355 Thanks for this, Esau. I came across your blog and this particular essay via Richard Middleton’s blog. This was very good. I’m also a big Frederick Douglass fan. Obviously, there’s an abundance of other places to turn in both the OT and NT that argue against any sort of racism. Gal. 3:26-28. Eph. 2:11-22 (I particularly like how the cross – and cruciformity – is the means to racial/nationalistic reconciliation, 2:14-18). I am also fond of Isa. 49:5-7 (“… it is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth. …”). And, as Middleton argues in A New Heaven and a New Earth, Jesus is also inclusive of all in Luke 4:16-30 and the rejection of Jesus by the Jews at Nazareth in that scene is, in effect, a sign of how human beings cling to ungodly tribalism, but also illustrates God’s rejection of exclusivism of any particular race or nationality. Blessings!

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