Evolutionary Racism

We are struggling to deal with a racist backlash against peoples who look like the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center towers. It is an "us against them" kind of mentality which assumes that because these people don't look like us and live like us, we don't have to show the same level of compassion and understanding towards them as we expect to be shown towards us. They aren't really us, our kind of humans, so we don't have to treat them lovingly like blood relatives.

This racist thinking comes from evolutionary theory, not the Bible. The Bible clearly states that the current generation of mankind are all descended from our original ancestors Adam and Eve through their descendent Noah and his wife and their children. Our genes are derived from their genes, not from the evolution of different gene pools from a common near-human ape ancestor.

The reason the different human "races" look different from each other is because of the loss of the full range of genes from the Noahic gene pool in small, isolated groups who married mates who lived close to them. As some genes were lost from each generation, the children became more genetically uniform until their children closely resembled each other because the genetic pool had become so much smaller than the original pool.

This uniformity in appearance does not make them one bit inferior or superior through evolution to another group whose gene pool lost different genes and thus ended up with a different set of "racial" characteristics. If humans worldwide would marry and have children regardless of the race of the parents, the gene pool would soon reblend to contain the full range of genes. All the children would be as fully human as their ancestors. There are no genetic barriers that prevent humans from different races from producing healthy, fertile children, so there are no different "races" (that is, species) among humans. We are one people of many different families, all as fully human as the other families.

How then do we deal with human cultures which differ from ours? If they didn't evolve along with a different gene pool, they aren't necessarily a culture to be tolerated as a matter of diversity if the culture produces beliefs and thus actions which endanger the rest of the human race. The question then arises, on what basis shall we judge when a culture has produced a toxic belief that will harm mankind as a whole?

The answer is the same basis on which you judge the actions of an individual who is causing harm within his own community. The criminal mindset which allows one individual to murder, steal, or otherwise harm others can occur in any human group. It isn't confined to one particular set of genes as a "racial" characteristic.

The Bible calls this mindset the "sin nature" and states that it is present in every human being. It can be checked to a certain extent by careful childhood training in peace-loving, law-abiding ways. However, children born into a culture which trains them to obey a set of rules which allows them to bring harm to another group will live by the laws of that culture. When this group grows large enough and well-armed enough to exert its power over other groups, we end up with wars and bloodshed where it becomes obvious that this culture has developed toxic beliefs which are at odds with the welfare of all of mankind.

The human race has grown large enough and well-armed enough that we are going to have to insist on a common culture throughout mankind to maintain the peace and not destroy ourselves. What culture will it be? The Bible predicts that mankind will form a one world government with a one world religion to unite us under the leadership of the Antichrist. This culture will not be based on Biblical principles.

Indeed, Christians will be hated as being bigoted and divisive for insisting that their way is the only true way of salvation. It won't matter what well-meaning if imperfect efforts we have made to improve the lot of mankind in the past while spreading the good news of Jesus and the redemption He bought for us. Power will be worshipped more than love for your fellow man, and the embodiment of power, the Antichrist, will be worshipped above all else.

The seeds of this culture are already sown among the various peoples of the world, and the bitter fruits of them are in evidence. The rise in violence and lawlessness come from this antichrist spirit behind the toxic cultures of the world. They are the driving force that will cause all mankind to adopt one culture to try to stop the violence by uniting all countries into one superstate whose will is enforced by whatever means necessary.

The problem is that choosing this culture as your salvation is like exchanging a small dose of poison for a lethal dose. All Hell will actually break loose on Earth when this antichrist culture takes over. Instead of solving the problems of mankind, it will vastly multiply them as dissenting countries war with each other on a scale never seen before. Mankind will literally come close to destroying itself by the very means that it believes will save it.

Please consider this well before you make the choice of which culture you will live or die under. God's ways are the way of love, peace, and harmony with your fellow man. Violence and lawlessness occur to the extent that we depart from them, even in Christian cultures. The Antichrist will rule through fear and the murder of dissenters. This is the way of our adversary Satan, the original terrorist who rules through fear, deception, and murder. When God's principles are completely rejected in favor of the antichrist culture, the proof of which culture is superior will be clearly evident. It won't favor Satan for the vast majority of suffering mankind, only for a few powerful leaders ruling for a brief time before Jesus returns to restore love and peace to mankind.

Please choose which leader and which culture you wish to live under now while you still have a choice. If you choose God and His Son Jesus, please pray this prayer of salvation:

Dear God, I'm sorry for my sins and I ask You to forgive them. Jesus Christ paid the price for my sins to redeem me. Please adopt me into Your heavenly family. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

That's all there is to it. You don't have to do anything else. Jesus took care of it all, no matter what has happened in your life. God loves you and wants you to join His family. Please, make this most important decision of your life now!

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