American Glory - Is Interracial Marriage Sinful?

On that note, let's go ahead and begin.

[air whooshing] Many Westerners and even Christians argue that while God created two sexes, he created only one race, the human race.

Now, in one sense, that's true, but scripture is explicit that all humanity shares a common origin and dignity, and we all descend from one man.

That is obviously Adam.

But race is also a biological and historical reality.

Now, the word race is dealing with degrees of ancestral likeness.

That's a very important definition.

Race is the word dealing with degrees of ancestral likeness.

And this matters because we're not Gnostics who divorce the physical from the spiritual and pretend that we're all the same, just with different melanin levels in our skin.

No, God gave us eyes, and he gave us distinct genetic traits and behavior patterns and, uh, phenotypes and skeletal structures.

Now, in the New Testament, the apostle Paul and Stephen explicitly describe the Jewish people as a distinct, uh, as a distinct kinship group, or they actually use the word race.

In Acts 7:19, in the NASB 95 translation, Stephen says, quote, "It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive." End quote.

Now, the word race itself has a deep historical root.

Now, it traces its origin from the old French word race, which is about 1480 when you start to see that, and then it comes from the Italian razza, which is from the 1300s, and that word actually is used to describe breed or lineage or family stock.

Now, the Italian root is actually further tied to the, uh, etymology of the Latin radix, which actually goes all the way back to ancient Rome, about 75 AD, which means root.

So this etymological progression proves that humanity for many generations has possessed a word for this concept that we now call race.

You don't create words for things that don't exist.

And so when these people say, "Oh, there's just one race, the human race," well, why did we have a word for this for the past 2,000 years, and probably longer than that, to describe this concept of race? In other words, race is real.

It's real in scripture, it's real in history, it's real in our experience.

So to deny race is to deny categories of peoplehood and genetic lineages that were created by God.

And I think, again, that word race is a helpful tool to describe those distinctions.

Now, I think of it kinda like the term, uh, colorblind, right? Which was a virtue signaling phrase in the 20-teens that showed people that you don't see any racial distinctions at all.

[laughs] They're all the same, right? And I get the, the heart behind it, right, is that you're not making judgments just on skin color alone.

I get that.

Uh, but it was just a way to say, really for the people that used it, "I'm so superior and progressive and neutral that I see everyone exactly the same," even though there is clearly distinctions between all of these different groups.

On that note, let's go ahead and begin.

[air whooshing] Many Westerners and even Christians argue that while God created two sexes, he created only one race, the human race.

Now, in one sense, that's true, but scripture is explicit that all humanity shares a common origin and dignity, and we all descend from one man.

That is obviously Adam.

But race is also a biological and historical reality.

Now, the word race is dealing with degrees of ancestral likeness.

That's a very important definition.

Race is the word dealing with degrees of ancestral likeness.

And this matters because we're not Gnostics who divorce the physical from the spiritual and pretend that we're all the same, just with different melanin levels in our skin.

No, God gave us eyes, and he gave us distinct genetic traits and behavior patterns and, uh, phenotypes and skeletal structures.

Now, in the New Testament, the apostle Paul and Stephen explicitly describe the Jewish people as a distinct, uh, as a distinct kinship group, or they actually use the word race.

In Acts 7:19, in the NASB 95 translation, Stephen says, quote, "It was he who took shrewd advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers so that they would expose their infants and they would not survive." End quote.

Now, the word race itself has a deep historical root.

Now, it traces its origin from the old French word race, which is about 1480 when you start to see that, and then it comes from the Italian razza, which is from the 1300s, and that word actually is used to describe breed or lineage or family stock.

Now, the Italian root is actually further tied to the, uh, etymology of the Latin radix, which actually goes all the way back to ancient Rome, about 75 AD, which means root.

So this etymological progression proves that humanity for many generations has possessed a word for this concept that we now call race.

You don't create words for things that don't exist.

And so when these people say, "Oh, there's just one race, the human race," well, why did we have a word for this for the past 2,000 years, and probably longer than that, to describe this concept of race? In other words, race is real.

It's real in scripture, it's real in history, it's real in our experience.

So to deny race is to deny categories of peoplehood and genetic lineages that were created by God.

And I think, again, that word race is a helpful tool to describe those distinctions.

Now, I think of it kinda like the term, uh, colorblind, right? Which was a virtue signaling phrase in the 20-teens that showed people that you don't see any racial distinctions at all.

[laughs] They're all the same, right? And I get the, the heart behind it, right, is that you're not making judgments just on skin color alone.

I get that.

Uh, but it was just a way to say, really for the people that used it, "I'm so superior and progressive and neutral that I see everyone exactly the same," even though there is clearly distinctions between all of these different groups.