Racism: A Counter-Theology Analysis

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As previously stated, non-Christian worldviews are also struggling with the issue of diversity and are contributing sorely ineffective, even pernicious explanations. One of these pernicious approaches to the issue of diversity is racism. Racism is a topic that is not new and that we can’t seem to get rid of. This suggests that humans have perpetual differences that must be examined throughout a cycle of superiority and inferiority. Racism is one of the primary human sins and one of the most difficult to expunge. It is very different from the gospel of Jesus Christ and all that Christians should believe, teach, and live.
Radical individualism is another approach to the issue of diversity. Radical individualism develops the notion that we [humans] …show more content…
To do this is to uncover a counter-narrative to the stories the world is telling and the stories that are dividing the world right before our eyes. This counter-narrative is not only helpful but it is real. What we need is a biblical theology in service to the gospel and a coherent proclamation of the gospel as the key to our biblical theology. In order to get here, we must consider of the most neglected passages in Scripture: Genesis 10. Here we find what is typically referred to as the Table of the …show more content…
The root of all of us in Adam and Eve, we share a common descent. Genesis only makes sense and we can only correctly understand the gospel if those for whom Christ died are all sons of Adam. When considering the Table of Nations in Genesis 10, it is important to remember that these nations are scattering for a reason, which is provided is Genesis 11. The Tower of Babel, “Now the whole earth had one language and the same words” (Genesis 11:1). Not only do we shared ancestor in Adam, but we all shared the same language at one point.
As Moses continues in Genesis 11:2-9, the repetition of the word “come” is distinct. The word appears three times in the text. The first two times the word appears, it is spoken by the inhabitants of the city of Babel: “Come, let us make bricks,” “Come let us build a city.” They are calling one another to collude and rebel against the Lord. Still, the Lord mimics them when he says, “Come, let us go down, and see this thing which they have done.” As expected, the Lord did not just go down and see the thing they they had done, he went down and undoes the thing that they had
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