We All Come From The Same African Parents

I came across this very insightfull article in all places The Conservative Voice about we as humans being different variations in color and ethnicity coming from the same ancestral parent.

Here's an excerpt:

by Babu Ranganathan

The Racist German Shepard And Bull Dog

As I was walking down the road the other day I overheard a German Shepherd talking to a bull dog. I over-heard the German Shepherd saying to the bull dog "You can't possibly be a dog because you don't look like me! Why, just look at your flat nose and jaw, your round head, your stumpy neck, and short legs. You look more like a cat than you do a dog! Hey, is that your nose or your mouth? Hahahaha! Do you grow the ugly nappy hair that poodles have? How can anything that looks like you have the soul, intelligence, and feelings of a dog? Who gave you the right to be called a dog? Get out of my sight you ugly looking thing!"

I mention the above illustration to make a point to those who harbor racism. I hope that you will repent of your sin of racism, which is a great sin against God Who created all men in His image and has commanded all men to love one another, and that you will receive the love and forgiveness of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior Who paid the penalty for all our sins through His death and shedding of His blood on the Cross of Calvary and Who rose again from the dead to give us eternal life.

Here's another excerpt....

Young people, and even adults, often wonder how all the varieties or "races" of people could come from the same original human ancestors. Well, in principle, that's no different than asking how children with different color hair ( i.e., blond, brunette, brown, red ) can come from the same parents who both have black hair.

Just as some individuals today carry genes to produce descendants with different color hair and eyes, humanity's first parents, Adam and Eve, possessed genes to produce all the variety and races of men. You and I today may not carry the genes to produce every variety or race of humans, but humanity's first parents did possess such genes.

All varieties of humans carry genes for the same basic traits, but not all humans carry every possible variation of those genes. For example, one person may be carrying several variations of the gene for eye color ( i.e., brown, green, blue ) , but someone else may be carrying only one variation of the gene for eye color ( i.e., brown ). Thus, both will have different abilities to affect the eye color of their offspring.

Some parents with black hair, for example, are capable of producing children with blond hair, but their blond children (because they inherit only recessive genes) will not have the ability to produce children with black hair unless they mate with someone else who has black hair. If the blond descendants only mate with other blondes then the entire line and population will only be blond even though the original ancestor was black-haired.

In reality there is only one race - the human race - within which exists myriad variations and permutations. Just as you can get a pure bred from a mutt but not a mutt from a pure bred, so too all varieties of humans were able to come from Adam and Eve our first parents.

All varieties of humans belong to one natural species since all varieties of human beings are inter-fertile, and this is biological proof that we are all descendants of a common human ancestor. This is why the Bible says that God "hath made of one all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth ..." (Acts 17:26, KJV). The Bible clearly teaches that God created all human beings in His image. Therefore, as one of my former pastors, Dr. Carl E. Abrahamsen, Jr., so truthfully and eloquently stated, to hate a fellow human being who has been created in the image of God because of the way he or she looks is a great and serious sin and offense against God which needs to be confessed and repented of before the Almighty.

Here is a link to the full artice. It is well worth a read and a comment:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/30518.html

Comments

[Chrystal Whicker]

This was a email that was sent to me directly that I think is well worth posting because the sender seems to think that this site is racist.

Mr. Johnson,

I am one who admires the good and the honorable in all races. But I'm wondering about what appears to be a contradiction and hypocrisy. On the one hand, I can agree with you that God is the creator of all men of all races, and that all are created in His image, that skin color doesn't matter when it comes to human rights. So, why does it matter when it comes to the color of Jesus' skin?
ANY TIME YOU MAKE SKIN COLOR AN ISSUE, REGARDING ANY MATTER, YOU ARE DEMONSTRATING RACISM. In my experience, the blacks tend to me more racist against whites than the other way around.

Sincerely,
Chrystal Whicker

Chrystal thanks for sharing your opinion.
The aim of this site is to get at the truth.
I again post this question to you. If the
color of Jesus doesn't matter, why is he alway portrayed as white, blond and blue eyed when scientific proof shows otherwise. I agree, racism is wrong no matter who it comes from.

As for Blacks being more racists, if and when it does occur, since we only represent
12% of the US population, it doesn't prevent whites from gaining employment, housing,a quality education,loans or fair legal representation. Racism causes Blacks to be victims of all the aformentioned.

[Cyia Slappy]

In a perfect world, race would not matter. But let's face it: none of us are in heaven yet. Most of us who happen to be of African descent don't walk around with a superiority complex, in an effort to "blackwash" the world. Instead, we only seek to find our equal place in it. That said, the truth is not always what everyone wants to hear. I'm speaking specifically about the "color of Jesus" issue.

When a white person has been raised from childhood to believe that his or her race is superior to others, of course then, they believe, the Saviour of mankind MUST be white as well. Geneologies in the Bible are there for a reason, and I believe one of the reasons is to let everyone know that Jesus had all kinds and colors of people in His family tree.

White Christians accept that Rahab the prostitute, Boaz the heathen, David the adulterer were in Christ's earthly bloodline, but when one points out that many of his ancestors hailed from places primarily inhabited by people of color, there's that internal gasp and defiant disbelief. Then you have those who do acknowledge this, but the thought is so contrary to their lily white image of Him that they dismiss it quickly with "His color doesn't matter, anyway."

Spiritually speaking, that statement is correct, but in this world, especially in America where people of African descent have suffered centuries of hatred and abuse based soley on race, you better believe it matters to us!

Still at the end of the day, I'm so glad that God in His wisdom, deemed it appropriate that Jesus was born in the middle East of multi-racial bloodline. However, when I pray, I don't pray to the Father through Jesus Christ because He's black or white, but because of the red blood he shed for my salvation.