God is “not wanting anyone to perish” ( 2 Peter 3:9).
#Soulless beings bible verse skin
There is nothing in the Scriptures to indicate that people are excluded from God’s saving grace on the basis of ethnic origin or skin color. God is spirit and does not have “color” in our human and earthly sense. Is the Bible a book by a white God for white people? Of course not. As a white person in a predominantly white country, I also began to gain a better understanding of and a greater appreciation for the black experience in the United States. When I first read about these concepts, they brought tears to my eyes. These ideas, steeped in racial prejudice, were alleged to provide a biblical justification for black slavery and the subjugation of black peoples. They are not the terms we would prefer today, but they are terms that historians, ethnologists and Bible commentators of past centuries, and even the 20th century, have employed to explain their ideas about the origin of blacks. Let me apologize in advance for some of the terms that I will need to use as we discuss this topic. So let’s look at it, and put to rest once and for all this biased and unfair distortion of the Bible. Thankfully, times have changed, but some of the wounds remain. I began to realize that this was a particularly difficult and controversial subject, and it has caused much hurt. I studied intensively for about a year, attending lectures and interviewing scholars. Puzzled, I began to look into the topic more deeply. Many Old Testament scholars, particularly European scholars of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, had written their books and commentaries on the Old Testament from the perspective that there were no people of color mentioned in the Scriptures.ĭifferent nationalities depicted in tomb of Ramses III: As I read the various required textbooks for the course, I saw something I had not noticed before. In 1992, I took a class at Emory University in Atlanta called Introduction to the Old Testament.
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