Greetings
Brethren,
How can you love
and know God when you cry God is Black or White? What are the priorities of the
righteous, love of God or love of race or man? Who are the people that can truly
love their enemies? If there is no love for all humankind there is no love for
God. Can you love your enemies and still distinguish between love and hate?
Peace and Love,
Carl Patton
writing for the FreedomJournal September 16, 2002 in the year of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
RACE AND GOD
(BLACK NOR WHITE)
PART 4: WHITE IMAGES OF JESUS UNGODLY
In the name of Jehovah God, Master of the universe,
Ruler of the earth.
We beseech you brethren
to stay with God. As we give honor to our Father God, His son the Savior of the
world Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit that is our comforter in times of
trouble and peace we again petition all of God's children.
Images of God,
Jesus Christ and the Prophets/Apostles are ungodly. Why? In the Bible images
have a long-standing relationship with idols and idolatry. Idol worship was an
ancient practice among the ancestors of the Israelites (see Joshua 24:2 and
Genesis 31:30).
When we note
that pictures, paintings etc. of Jesus and the Prophets are ungodly we base
this on the definitive qualities of the word image. An image is usually a
visible representation of a person or thing. Exodus 20:4-5. "Thou shalt
not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth
Therefore
beloved idols of wood, stone etc. and images seen in the use of pictures
depicting the Messiah and the Prophets/Apostles are ungodly.
For the record
as you mediate and think on the topic of this discussion dealing with Race and
God we ask that you go with us to determine some of the origins of White images
of Biblical characters. Since race also often denotes color of skin, we will
begin with Jews and race. Especially many of those that ascribe to be Jews
today are White and of European stock. However we preface our comments
regarding Jews and race with the statement that "Judaism/Jews is in
reference to religion. Therefore keep in mind that Hebrew/Israelite is in
reference to race. Thus all Jews are not Hebrews and all Hebrews are not Jews.
Logically then
Judaism is the religion noted in scripture prior to coming of Christ. Many of
the Hebrew race or Israelites practiced this religion. For the record this
religion was supposed to make a transition to Christianity. In fact it did make
the transition assisted by Jesus Christ and carried further by the Apostles.
However many of the Hebrews are Jews failed to make the transition and still
note a racial distinction that is opposed to Christianity and true believers.
Although God
chose the Hebrew people for a reason and a season, many consistently failed to
obey God. This disobedience is seen
before the Exodus to the days of Malachi and the time Jesus Preached and taught
of the blessings of God. Therefore race (for example if one is of Hebrew
extraction) does not bring one favor with God during the days we live in now.
The days of life are now the Christian Dispensation. The Jewish and period of
the Mosaic Law have ended. Those that accept Jesus Christ as their Savior are
now the favorites of God.
So what are you
really saying here FreedomJournal? Are you saying that there were some
precedents noted in scripture that has caused some to think God favors a
particular race over his other children? Yes we are but one has to read the
Bible correctly with your eyes on God and not on man, money, Imperialism,
Colonialism and the other foolish things of a sin sick world.
It is for sure that
there has been an ungodly campaign to confuse believers that God has rendered
Jesus Christ null and void. Therefore
Jews are the chosen people although they reject Christ. Meanwhile, racism has
made his way into the hearts and minds of the confused. With the
Europeanization of the original Hebrews the effort to bring White into
Christianity has received great attention. First of all the record is clear on
the origins of the original Hebrew people. This record also renders a clear
depiction of the ethnic lines of the Prophets and the Apostles. Also one is
guided by the geographic location of the people that are noted throughout the
Bible. Therefore the ungodly distortions of Biblical characters as White people
are similar to the ancient and contemporary efforts to paint the original
Egyptians as non- Black are an African White people.
But the
historical distortions of the Egyptians are small indeed to the distortions of
Biblical characters. But all are exercises in foolhardy intellectual criminals
and False Prophets. Meanwhile all true believers realize that God is not
prejudiced. God is love. God loves all of his creation. This includes Blacks, White people, Asians,
Indians etc. However, Christians are the chosen one's noted in the Christian
Bible. This simply means that the Christian Sacred Text teaches that those that
accept Jesus Christ will see Peace and Paradise for an eternity.
We would be
remiss here if we did not note the White Supremacy doctrine applied to the
White Jesus. First of all did the message of God brought by the Apostles to
Europe cause the Christian church to see the new Babylon? Did Christianity
become tainted with lies, distortions, images, idols and things not of God when
it left the place of its birth? Why did Christianity extend to cults that
worship man and images before God? If man does not understand how to be a
Christian how can he understand the problems of the Middle East and the world?
Are the answers to the world crisis that we confront found in the Bible? Many
say that all answers regarding the existence of humankind are found in the
Bible. If so when will our leaders especially Church leaders use the Bible that
God has so graciously given us?
Cont. Part 5: White Supremacy and White Jesus
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