The Human Race

 The recent events of these last 2 or 3 years have caused "us" to not care or see each other as we should. This has been going on for a while, really since the beginning of time. It started with Cain and Able.

Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. Genesis 4:8

In my world view through the glasses of Christianity, God created one race. The human race, man, and formed him out of the dust of the earth and breathed life into him. That man, Adam, had all the genetic factors and coding for every skin color, every eye color and all the various hair colors. 

then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. Genesis 2:7

The Hebrew (Yiddish) word for mankind is Mensch and the Greek word is Ántrōpos. These words are used throughout the Bible to speak truth about who we are in this world and in the eyes of God. 

Unfortunately, as man continued to sin and wreak havoc throughout the world God decided to do something about it. He sent a flood and saved Noah and his family in an ark. When the flood waters dried up and the ark was opened these are the words God said... 

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Genesis 9:1

Noah and his sons contained all  of the genetic coding and factors needed to make people as different as the grains of  dust used to create the first man, Adam. They began to repopulate the earth. But because man is fallen and can not live a "perfect" life things again started going down hill. 

All people had the same language and the same cultures. They wanted to build a tower to the heavens and make a name for "themselves". So God, wanted them to love and serve him not themselves so he confounded their language and spread them throughout the earth. 

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:1-9

I reviewed all of this backstory to show that it wasn't until the "Tower of Babel" that distinctive difference were seen in man and cultures. God created one race, one people, one man, who had all of what was needed to cause the beauty that is in the faces and lives of the people of the earth today. 

We are not supposed to care whether someone is brown, black, yellow, red, or white. Whether their hair is kinky, wavy, or straight. If they have eyes that can see or not see, are yellow, blue, green, gray, brown, black, green, or hazel. None of these things should matter in the grand scheme of this world we live in. We are not supposed to be a respecter of persons. We are to care for everyone equally. 

I have been doing a Bible Study by Priscilla Shirer called "Elijah". This is where I learned of the word Ántrōpos. I had heard similar words but that night in that lesson this word stuck out, and touched my heart.  I have been mulling it over for a few weeks. 

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. James 5:17

In this verse the word Ántrōpos is used for man. If you know the accounts of Elijah's life you know he did great things for God. So great in fact that he didn't die, God carried him away in a fiery chariot. He was described as a hairy man or a man with a hair garment, and a leather belt around his waist.

They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a [wide] leather band bound around his loins.” And Ahaziah said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite. 2 Kings 1:8 (Amplified Bible)

God uses all kinds of people, John the Baptist looked like Elijah and acted like him so much that he was thought to be him. That should not matter to us. It shouldn't matter is someone is rich or poor, black or white, educated or uneducated. We are not to care for those things. We are to be like God and he is NOT a respecter of people. He takes people like they are. 

For God shows no partiality. Romans 2:11

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. Acts 10:34-35

Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the Lord our God, or partiality or taking bribes. 2 Chronicles 19:7

We are to be the same if we are Christians, being examples to the world around us. 

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.... But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. James 2:1,9

We are suppose to love all people. No matter their color or creed. We as Christians can not serve God and hate people. 

So at the beginning, I spoke of the way the world has been in recent years. I hear people who "claim" to be Christian get upset with "blacks," "Jews," and people with all kinds of different life choices from us. It is NOT our job to spew hate, it is our job to love and admonish. The Bible teaches that... 

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. 1 John 2:10-11

For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers,[c] that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3: 11-18

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 John 4: 19-21

I have pounded this enough I think. I love my God, I can say there is no one in this world that I do not love! In an earlier post I said there are people I don't like, but it is never because of their color or their culture. I wish we could all Love each other and put away all our petty differences. We are Human Beings.... the only Race God see!

Thanks for reading and I pray that God will bless you!