Pastor Gabe's Old Blog

In his sermon at the Areopagus, the Apostle Paul said that God "made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place" (Acts 17:26). Every single human being on earth is descended from one man, Adam. There is only one race—the human race. What we call racism, prejudice against another on the basis of their skin tone, is absurd (as all sin is) since fundamentally there's no such thing as races. There's also no such thing as "red and yellow, black and white," as the Sunday school song goes. Essentially, we're all the same color—just varying shades of brown, depending on how much melanin you have. To pass judgment on another for the tones of our skin is to pass judgment on yourself. What divides people—from each other and most especially from God—is sin. We are all sinners. The problem of sin will persist until God comes to judge the world in righ...

Call me narrow-minded, but I still believe the sins that divide people—any and all hatred whether it be racism, sexism, or otherwise—can be conquered by the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that produces godliness. The Bible says that when we deviate from the gospel, we will fight and quarrel. We read in 1 Timothy 6:3-5, "If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imaging that godliness is a means of gain." Over the last couple days, several have written in expressing disagreement with a WWUTT video I made about Black Lives Matter. I warned that BLM is a race-baiting ide...