is the bible racist towards people who is not white?
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Rev 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Rev 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Rev 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Rev 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
John did not see Jesus in His physical appearance but in His heavenly appearance after His resurrection.[/QUOTE]
Brass in a furnace turns so bright that you should use eye protection to look at it.
Rev 1:15 And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Rev 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
Rev 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Rev 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
John did not see Jesus in His physical appearance but in His heavenly appearance after His resurrection.[/QUOTE]
Brass in a furnace turns so bright that you should use eye protection to look at it.
Literal vs symbolic scripture: Examples
Here ALL literal
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; & every eye shall see him, & they also which pierced him: & all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen
Here symbolic
Rev 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
(NOTE: NOT wool or snow or a flame. But, "LIKE wool" "AS snow" "AS a flame". Pay close attention, Context is always Key.
Here ALL literal
Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; & every eye shall see him, & they also which pierced him: & all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen
Here symbolic
Rev 1:14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
(NOTE: NOT wool or snow or a flame. But, "LIKE wool" "AS snow" "AS a flame". Pay close attention, Context is always Key.
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Matthew 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
(NOTE: Jesus refers to the gentile woman from Canaan as a dog)
In Jesus day gentiles were considered to be godless & ceremonially unclean outside of covenant seals. The reference "dog" was a commonly know & used expression throughout the Jewish culture.
Non-Jews were considered so ungodly, even being in their presence could make a person ceremonially unclean
John 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the Passover.
(NOTE: Just entering into the ""Roman/gentile"" judgment hall would make them unclean.)
Acts 10:28 Peter said unto them, Ye know how that it is an "unlawful" thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean
(NOTE: Peter tells Cornelius it's UNLAWFUL for a Jew to keep company with a non-Jew)
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H2526 חָם Cham (chawm) n/l.
1. hot (from the tropical habitat).
2. Cham, a son of Noah.
3. (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country.
Cush
Strong's #3568: Kuwsh (pronounced koosh)
probably of foreign origin; Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite:--Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.
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kûsh
Cush = "black"
1) a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7 (noun proper masculine)
2) the son of Ham and grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in Africa (noun proper masculine)
3) the peoples descended from Cush (noun proper masculine)
4) the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia) (noun proper locative)
God bless!
H2526 חָם Cham (chawm) n/l.
1. hot (from the tropical habitat).
2. Cham, a son of Noah.
3. (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country.
Cush
Strong's #3568: Kuwsh (pronounced koosh)
probably of foreign origin; Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite:--Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.
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kûsh
Cush = "black"
1) a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7 (noun proper masculine)
2) the son of Ham and grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in Africa (noun proper masculine)
3) the peoples descended from Cush (noun proper masculine)
4) the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia) (noun proper locative)
God bless!
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Correct. The Bible says that there is only one race -- the human race -- with many ethnic groups.
Tribalism has always been a human trait, and that has led to racism. Almost every ethnic group believes that it is superior to others, so racism has always been a fact of life. But it should not be so for Christians.
Tribalism has always been a human trait, and that has led to racism. Almost every ethnic group believes that it is superior to others, so racism has always been a fact of life. But it should not be so for Christians.
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He became the father of the Cushites, Ethiopians. This does not mean there is anything inherently racist about the Bible. In fact a little study kind of shows that Noah's three sons are the fathers of the 3 races. Which literally means we are all from the same lineage. Though at times certain lines received curses for their patriarchs' sins there is still reconciliation in Christ Jesus our Lord and savior. Reconciled to God and to each other.
Again how do you know he became the father if the Ethiopians ? is that recorded in the Bible?
Ham was the father of Canaan and Canaanites lived in the area's in and around Israel.. They where not Africans / Ethiopians..
(Genesis 9:22) "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without."
Ham was the father of Canaan and Canaanites lived in the area's in and around Israel.. They where not Africans / Ethiopians..
(Genesis 9:22) "And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without."
The white people are the descendants of Japheth. And the Bible says some pretty bad things about their race too, though it's all true also just like the pronouncements against Ham, the father of the blacks, are grim, but they are also true. Even the other Semites, the Asiatic races, became pagans and the Bible also tells very true things about their wicked races. The thing is is that shortly after the Flood all the races pretty much became evil pagans and the things they did, and still do, are quite evil. Is it racist to call them evil? Maybe it is, but that doesn't mean it's not true. The only racial exception is the Israelites as the man Israel worshipped the only true God in his time. Though in the course of history as the Bible relates the Israelites, and later the jews, would also betray God and reap the curses of his wrath, very often by mingling and mixing with the various races around them and adopting their wicked customs which made them forget about Lord God.
White people didn't become Christian until the days of the apostles of Lord Jesus. The first white man to become a Christian, if I remember correctly, is Cornelius, a centurion of Rome. The apostle Paul in the Bible is the foremost apostle to go out to the Gentiles, namely the whites, and he converted many of the white people early on and this is why Christianity would in later centuries rise in Europe and then subsequently in the isles of the sea that the sons of Japheth were promised to inherit.
White people didn't become Christian until the days of the apostles of Lord Jesus. The first white man to become a Christian, if I remember correctly, is Cornelius, a centurion of Rome. The apostle Paul in the Bible is the foremost apostle to go out to the Gentiles, namely the whites, and he converted many of the white people early on and this is why Christianity would in later centuries rise in Europe and then subsequently in the isles of the sea that the sons of Japheth were promised to inherit.