A Biblical answer for racial, ethnic and social turmoil: a lesson from Israel

News From Jerusalem

by Tom Brennan,

Recent tragic events in America have led many to ask “Why”? Many are exploiting racial, ethnic, economic and social issues for political and personal gain to be sure. But Christians can look to the Bible and Israel for the only real answers.

In Israel every morning people rise and say in one voice” “Shema Yisrael”. This has happened for over 3,500 years without fail. “Hear O Israel thy G-d is One”. The evening closes the same way. Israel is one nation under One G-d. Yes there are sects and a difference; yes there are disagreements and sometimes fights. And yes there is poverty, and some inequality in the way human agencies interpret laws and finances. But each day the faithful rise and declare in one voice that prayer.

Humans have a way of taking a straightforward instruction and spinning it into something they can personalize and use for their own benefit. It’s called marketing or branding in today’s terminology. Churches call it a denomination, a doctrine or other unique term. The early Gnostics saw an opportunity to take the Gospel and create a unique and very marketable version of a basic truth and create their own version of it. We have the “Gospel of Judas” and other spinoffs as proof, all in conflict with the Gospels and Epistles actually transmitted by the Disciples.

Hamas, Hezbollah, ISIS and the Ayatollahs are dividing up the Muslim world, threatening Christians and Jews with extinction. In America a racial agenda has been adopted to divide and conquer the Nation by many sides. Are we meant to be divided and at each other’s throats?

The Bible has a very straightforward solution. There is One G-d. Male and female He created them in His own image and likeness. So we have One G-d, two genders and one race: human. All else is “branding” and marketing to divide what G-d made for the personal gain of the dividers.

We must all look to the Word as given to us in Scripture for the solutions. This is work and will not be done overnight. We must protect and defend our families and faith against the attacks and persecutions that Israel’s and Christians’ enemies are generating. But through prayer and perseverance the enemies will eventually see the absolute sense behind the Bible’s declaration of our being in His image and likeness.

A house divided against itself cannot stand and we must stand with Israel against a world set on exploiting differences and emotions. It’s Biblical, after all.

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