What does the Bible say about race and racial equity?

Throughout history many have held beliefs about race, and more so today, racial equity. Some arguments have been very divisive, while others are more inclusive. The point is, how do we manage racial issues and what does the Bible say about race and racial equity?

Can race be found in the Bible?

It is sad to imagine how many acts of racism over the years have been committed by people, including those who claim to be Bible believing Christians. There is a common belief amongst some that what they believed about race was based on Biblical teaching. However, when you look at what is often given as Biblical proof of racial differences, you see a clear truth.

Some claim races started with Cain and Abel

Many have claimed over the years that when sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, race was established after Adam and Eve’s son, Cain, killed his brother Abel. In the Biblical account, we find that after Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden of Eden because of sin, their sons, Cain and Abel, offered sacrifices to God. These sacrifices were different, and God accepted the sacrifices of Able, but not Cain as follows:

Genesis 4:1-5. “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. ² And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. ³ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. ⁴ And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: ⁵ But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.”

Cain, the older brother, was a “tiller of the ground”, or farmer. Abel was a “keeper of the sheep.” Cain brought fruit of the ground, or crops he grew, and sacrificed them. Abel brought newborn lambs and sacrificed them. God respected Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s because Abel’s sacrifice involved blood. We find later that a blood sacrifice represents a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins that can be seen in the law (Exodus 30:1-10).

This caused Cain to become angry and depressed. God spoke to him about it, the danger that his anger could cause, and what happened afterwards as follows:

Genesis 4:5-8. “And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. ⁶ And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷ If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. ⁸ And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”

After God spoke to Cain he talked with his brother, but later when they were alone in the field, he killed his brother. God confronted Him about it, asking him where Abel was, despite God already knowing what happened as follows:

Genesis 4:9-10. “And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? ¹⁰ And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.”

When questioned where Abel was, Cain said he did not know with a snide comment asking God if he was his brother’s keeper. Sadly, some people today when asked a similar question about someone they mislead or harmed will answer with a similar response saying, “It’s not my day to babysit them.”

It was here we see that God cursed Cain for killing his brother and separated, or as many would call it, “segregated” him from the family. God then also put a “mark” upon Cain as a warning that God would bring a seven-fold vengeance upon anyone that tried to kill Cain as follows:

Genesis 4:11-15. “And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; ¹² When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. ¹³ And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ¹⁴ Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me. ¹⁵ And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.”

This mark is what many claim to be black skin. We later see Cain was sent to the “Land of Nod” which is east of Eden. There, he had a family that embraced all sorts of sinful ungodly lifestyles creating a Godless culture. Historians say Nod is in modern day Iran at the northeast shore of the Persian Gulf. However, with the flood that took place with Noah,10 generations after Adam and Eve, the world was reshaped so we do not know exactly where this was. However, Nod is also a Hebrew word (nôd) that means exile or wandering, or vagrancy (1).

The mark of Cain cannot be dark skin color

If we say that the mark of Cain was dark skin, then there would not be anyone with dark skin in the world today. This is because if you track what happened to Cain and his descendants you see a problem. We find that all of Cain’s decendants died about 1665 years later in the worldwide flood in the days of Noah (Genesis 5:25-7:6).

However, Adam and Eve had another son, Seth, that was born to Adam and Eve (Genesis 4:25-26). If we track Seth’s descendants, we see seven generations later that Noah was one of Seth’s descendants. We can compare the lineages of Cain and Seth as follows:

• Cain’s lineage (Genesis 4:16-24): Cain; Enoch; Irad; Mehujael; Methusael; Lamech; and sons Jabel, Jubel, and Tubercain (7 generations)
• Seth’s lineage (Genesis 4:25-5:31): Seth; Enos; Cainan; Mahalaleel; Jared; Enoch; Methuselah; Lamech; Noah; and sons Shem, Ham, and Japeth (10 generations)

If we track each lineage, we find that only survivors of Seth’s lineage, the immediate family of Noah, lived through the flood (Genesis 7:1, 7). Therefore, no one with a “curse of dark skin” from Cain’s lineage would have survived so the idea of dark-skinned people being descendants of Cain cannot be true.

The three sons of Noah repopulated the world

When we read through the lineage to Noah, we find he had three married sons that helped build the ark (Genesis 6:9-9:14). These three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japeth, with their wives and their father Noah, with their mother – his wife, totaled eight people that survived. These survivors totaled eight and that number is confirmed in 1 Peter 3:20.

Upon the end of the flood, God told them to leave the ark along with all the animals. Noah built an altar to the LORD and offered a sacrifice. God blessed them and told them to be fruitful and multiply to “replenish the earth” (Genesis 9:1-29). It was then we see the three sons, also had children and settled in different general locations as follows:

• Genesis 10:2-5. “The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. ³ And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. ⁴ And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. ⁵ By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.”
• Genesis 10:6-20. “And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. ⁷ And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. ⁸ And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth….¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. ²⁰ These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.”
• Genesis 10:21-30. Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born…. ³⁰ And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
• Genesis 10:32. “These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.“

We see from this record that the three sons, built “nations,” or families, in three different areas of the world and spoke the same language:

• Japeth: The Isles of the Gentiles are thought by many commentators over time to be the Mediterranean, Europe and western Asia (2). Eurasia is the area considered today
• Ham: The areas of Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha are in the vicinity of the Dead Sea that sits on the eastern edge of modern Israel (3). The middle east and northern Africa is the area considered today
• Shem: The areas Mesha, Sephar, and a mountain of the east are thought to be in the areas of Arabia and India (4). Southern to eastern Asia is the area considered today

It was not many generations later that they migrated to Babylon and fell into idolatry. God intervened to confuse their language and separate them apart from one another (Genesis 11:1-9). At the same time, they became more established in Europe, Asia, and Africa. It was after this that God called Abram, AKA Abraham, a descendant of Shem, to leave with his family and migrate to what would become Egypt and Israel (Genesis 11:10-Genesis 15).

Biblically, all humans since the flood are descendants of Noah

So, when it comes to knowing what the Bible says about race and racial equity we can see the lineages. We know Biblically there were no descendants of Cain after the flood, and we are told in Scripture that all humans are of one blood. This means we have the same ancestry back to Noah as follows:

Acts 17:22-29. “Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. ²³ For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. ²⁴ God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; ²⁵ Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; ²⁶ And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; ²⁷ That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: ²⁸ For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. ²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.”

An important thing to see here is that while we are of one blood, and we are the offspring of God, referring to humanity as “all nations” is very telling. This is because the word nation, is not a “country.” It is a people group of the same ancestry or birth. This is because the word nation, has “nat” as its root, which is where we get the same word natal, meaning birth. So, while we may have different lineages or births through the sons of Noah, we are born of one blood. We see the origins of the word nation as follows (5):

c. 1300, nacioun, “a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language,” from Old French nacion “birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland” (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) “birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe,” literally “that which has been born,” from natus, past participle of nasci “be born” (Old Latin gnasci), from PIE root *gene- “give birth, beget,” with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups.

We see here that the word race, was originally used in this definition, but not in the same sense as modern day “racists” use when referring to different lines of evolution. We see the origins of the word race as follows (6):

Beliefs in race are Biblically satanic

So, when thinking about what does the Bible say about race and racial equity: how did we even get to believe that we have different races? By refusing to believe what God teaches in His Word and believing satanic lies about humanity. These lies inspire people to create their own satanic theologies about creation and the origins of man to include races. We are told in Genesis 1:26-27 that man was made in God’s image. We also see that God gives these unbelievers over to depraved minds so that they end up destroying themselves, and historically, others as follows:

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4. “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, ² That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12. “And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

1 Corinthians 2:12-16. “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. ¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Modern definitions of race were made famous by Charles Darwin

It can be said that man has a long history of trying to redefine Biblical truths with man-made wisdom. That being said, the argument that black skinned people are descendent of Cain today “does not hold water” when it comes to letting Scripture prove Scripture. It is a factual impossibility and the fact that those of Cain’s lineage embraced being married to more than one wife and the taking of innocent human life shows us what happens when we ignore God’s Word. We also see that those despising God’s Word were destroyed and those that embraced it were saved.

Charles Darwin was no different. Without getting into what beliefs that he was raised with; we know that in the mid 1800s he became famous by writing two “scientific” books. The first is called “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” The second is “The descent of Man.” This made Darwin recognized by most people as the originator of evolutionary biology. Darwin also saw evolution for its psychological aspects as well when he states (7):

“In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.”

There is much more that Darwin said, but overall, in Darwin’s world, the evolutionary biology of man produces the emotional psychological thinking of man and there is no room for the supernatural Spiritual power of God. In God’s world, the supernatural Spiritual power of God produces the biology of man and Spiritual thinking of man and there is no room for the evolutionary psychology of man. In Darwin’s world, all things are possible only if man has the physical and emotional power to try hard enough. In God’s world, all things are definitely possible when man trusts Christ for the physical and Spiritual power and there are no ifs!

Matthew 19:23-26. “Then said Jesus unto his disciples…It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. ²⁵ When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? ²⁶ But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”

Darwin’s beliefs about races

Darwin’s “science” totally contradicts God’s creation of man made in the image of God as a physical, emotional, and Spiritual beings. Darwin believed there were three main races that evolved: Caucasians (Whites); Mongoloids (Asians), and Negros (Blacks). While one could argue that each were decendants of Shem, Ham, and Japeth and lived in different areas, Darwin claimed they were three different evolutionary lines of humans. This where he got the term “race” as these three lines “race” for survival in life. He even questioned their ability to interbreed and how it might weaken their racial survivability.

If you notice the subtitle of his book, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, we find that the subtitle is “the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” When you study his books, he claims that Caucasians were the highest evolved or “favoured” race; Mongolians or Asians were second; and blacks or Negroes were the lowest. Darwin also tells of differing opinions as to the origins of each race being from one ancestor or separate ones like variations of a similar stock of animals.

This led Darwin to rationalize the belief that European whites were the highest “evolved” race based on civilizations, birth rates, and life expectancy. Racists, the world over seized upon this “proof” to justify racist policies and laws. Of course, this is a major reason why Adolph Hitler was an admirer of Darwin as well as many famous educators in the late 1800s.

When it came to interbreeding, Darwin said that “Europeans differ but little from Jews, who belong to the Semitic stock” and interbreeding would result in “Aryan branches having been largely crossed by indigenous tribes during their wide diffusion” (8). Hitler was also notorious for blaming Germany’s problems on the Jews, making the blonde haired-blue eyed German “master race” victims of lower races. Hitler’s solution was to eliminate the problem, over 6 million of them.

Darwin’s opinion about racial interbreeding

Considering all that Darwin claimed about racial superiority, it is no wonder that there were movements in the world and the United States to prevent the interbreeding of races. With this in mind, the term “sexual selection” was coined by Darwin as a major factor in racial superiority much in the same way as interbreeding livestock to product better herds.

Darwin went to great lengths to document the demise of different members of tribes of different races of history due to interbreeding with outsiders and the decrease in births of purebred children. In comparison, he equated extinction of several groups because of decreased birth rates, lawlessness, disease susceptibility, and climate adaptations. In addition, he added cultural religious lifestyles also as having an adverse effect. Given all of these things, he was of the opinion that blacks would become extinct in the next century. (9)(10)

Darwin tied racial survival to increased births, racial purity, and advances in civilization. Given Darwin’s release of all of this historically linked social information, there was a massive movement to prevent interracial relationships, marriages, and childbearing. This led to political leaders labeling blacks as inferior and a threat to whites and civilization if allowed to have relationships involving each other. (10)

Despite slavery ending in other societies and in the 1860’s in America, an anti-Christ thinking created a movement to force sterilizations and establish abortion practitioners in the black communities in an effort to “hasten their demise.” Laws were passed that created segregation, unfunded schools, minimized healthcare, and established a racist cultural norm legally, socially, and professionally. In simple terms, the adoption of evolutionary beliefs, led to humanistic, and ungodly interactions that segregated society.

How do we eliminate racism and assure racial equity?

We must acknowledge God says we are of one blood

The first thing we must realize is that what does the Bible say about race and racial equity is that there is no such thing Biblically as races. While we may have different personal branches of ancestries, we are all born of the lineage of Noah. We saw that earlier in Acts 17:22-29, where we are told we are of one blood. Therefore, we must acknowledge that while we are the same biologically, we may have different cultures and people groups as follows:

Acts 17:25-26. “Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; ²⁶ And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;”

Romans 10:12-13. “For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. ¹³ For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

We must realize there are no genetic biological races

So, while we may have culturally different people groups, we must also realize there is no biological test for race. We may even trace our ancestries through popular ancestry websites and labs, but there is no test for what “race” we are. In other words, there is no test for if we are black, white, or Asian. Even if you get test results back that say a large percentage of your ancestors come from a certain area of the world, that does not define a modern day “race” as people groups migrate. Many studies have confirmed this and many have been shocked by the findings when they have taken DNA tests. There are many scientific reports and articles about this, but a few are listed as follows:

Race and genetics versus ‘race’ in genetics

Corrigendum to: “Race and genetics vs. ‘race’ in genetics: A systematic review of the use of African ancestry in genetic studies

People’s racial and ethnic identities don’t reflect their genetic ancestry

Race is Not Biology

We must love God and our neighbor as ourselves

Jesus said there were two commandments: to love God first and love our neighbor as ourselves as follows:

Mark 12:28-31. “And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all? ²⁹ And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: ³⁰ And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.”

It is this love of God, when we trust Christ as our Savior and receive His Holy Spirit in us, that gives us the ability to love our neighbor as ourselves. This means we can sacrificially put their needs above our own out of love and appreciation for what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross to pay for our sins. It is this motivation that enables us to do all things through Christ, to love our neighbor no matter what color, gender, heritage, or even cultural values as children of God as follows:

Galatians 3:26-29. “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹ And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Colossians 3:1-4, 8-11, 12-17. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. ² Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. ³ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴ When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory…. ⁸ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. ⁹ Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; ¹⁰ And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: ¹¹ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³ Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. ¹⁴ And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. ¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

Love enables us to act with equity

Many people today interpret equity as providing opportunities for people no matter what their qualifications. However, there is a fine line between equity and equality. Originally equality describes something as an adjective of two or more things as being “physically” equal in form and substance. Equity, however, is a noun of something that is “relationally” equal, fair, or impartial to all concerned as follows:

Biblically, we see something being “equal” as in the case of when someone tries to compare themselves with being equal in substance or the same with God, angels, or something else as follows:

Luke 20:35-36. “But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: ³⁶ Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Philippians 2:5-7. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Revelation 21:16. “And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.“

Biblically, we see “equity” as in the case of relationally providing judgment and justice with fairness, impartiality, and without corruption.

Psalms 98:9. “Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.“

Proverbs 1:1-3. “The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel. ² To know wisdom and instruction;
to perceive the words of understanding; ³ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Micah 3:9-10. “Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

Malachi 2:6. “The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

Equity and equality go hand in hand

So, when considering what does the Bible say about race and racial equity, when it comes to acting with equity, our focus is treating everyone the same way relationally as we would with Jesus. This means that no matter who they are or where they come from, we love and respect them with the same love of Christ. On the other hand, we also know that when there is a measurable standard, our focus then becomes on what can meet that standard. Examples are as follows:

1. If we are giving a written test to a room full of people, there is a standard established that defines what is a correct or incorrect answer on the test and a mathematical standard of grading that is the same or equal for defining a pass or fail score. In this case, the test and how grades are given are “equal” in every identical case, so the focus is on the measurable equality of the test.
2. If we are giving the same written test to a room full of people and every person that is eligible to take the test have met the same standards of eligibility to take it, time to take the test, and the test is scored the same way no matter who takes it, then the focus is on being equitable to every person that takes the test no matter who they are.
3. Olympic athletes compete in an “equal” playing field or event, and are “equitably” judged the same way as to who wins, what place they were in, and no matter what country they are from.

We see here that performance is equally measured, but the standards applied to who is performing is equitable.

Final Thoughts

As Christians, when it comes to race and racial equality, we are called to follow the example how God treats us as citizens of the world as follows:

John 3:16-17. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

God so loved everybody in the world with equity; that He gave his only begotten Son, Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God in quality; that whosoever with equity, believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life in quality. For more about knowing this, check out our Got Jesus page.

We are called to treat others the same way in equity no matter how they identify in quality or how they identify as follows:

1 Corinthians 10:32. “Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God…”

Psalms 119:165. “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”

May God bless us in this endeavor to look beyond so-called race or how others self-identify without being offensive or offended.

(1) https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/strongs-number-H5113/

(2) https://biblehub.com/commentaries/genesis/10-5.htm

(3) https://www.bibleistrue.com/qna/pqna34.htm

(4) https://biblehub.com/commentaries/genesis/10-30.htm

(5) https://www.etymonline.com/word/nation

(6) https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=race

(7) Darwin, Charles, Origin of the Species, p. 488.

(8) Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man: ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE RACES OF MAN

(9) Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man: ON THE FORMATION OF THE RACES OF MAN

(10) Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man, various passages

(11) https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=equal

(12) https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=equitable

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