The
image depicts oneness for the races and ethnicities.
Today,
reply is on responses from Christians and people of color to
increases, and threats of growing support for atheism, disbelief, and
skepticism among Whites in America. Such elements as compassion,
empathy, shared hardship, and shared service continue to operate as a
bonding force among Americans along with ideas of brotherhood and
fellowship that act as a lid preventing any overflow of conflict and
confusion that might arise from plurality. Even where people of
color have suffered discrimination, enslavement, genocide, and other
forms of social injustice, they continue to regard it as contrary to
their own authentic character and heritage as survivors on the earth
to condemn others (no matter how outrageous their offenses) on the
basis of skin-color and racial differences. As with Christian
believers, there are those who prefer to forgive and forget; there
are those who put the needs and well-being of the full community
before their own. To abandon hope that others can receive salvation
confesses despair, magnifies doubt, and promotes the lack of faith
that oneself can be saved. It is written: 1st
Corinthians 12: 12-22, King James Version (KJV): 12 For as the body
is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body: so also is
Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body,
whether we be
Jews or Gentiles, whether we
be bond or free; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one
member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the
hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And
if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body;
is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were
an eye, where were
the hearing? If the whole were
hearing, where were
the smelling? 18 But now hath God set the members every one of them
in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were all one
member, where were
the body? 20
But now are they
many members, yet but one body. 21
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor
again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more
feeble, are necessary: A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public
forum, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality who uses
the ID “Nine thugs made good” (Level 2 with 285 points, a member
since September 07, 2019) posted the following:
Does
it bother people of color knowing more and more white people are
becoming atheists?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing
that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made
with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s
hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life,
and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations
of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That
they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and
find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we
live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets
have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are
the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like
unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s
device. (Acts 17: 24-29, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Why Jesus Comes Back (06/20/2019); A Wall To
Sanctify? (01/16/2019); Will There Be Diversity? (10/22/2017); George
Washington Owned Slaves (08/17/2017); Laws Favoring the Poor?
(03/06/2017); No Less GOD’s
Creation (12/01/2016); The Provision Against Racists? (01/19/2016)
“Nine
thugs made good”, the operations of bias, caste, disbelief, ethnic
arrogance, lawlessness, prejudice, racism, and sin have long been
interwoven and inseparable in the mind of Blacks and other people of
color (e.g., Asians, Native Americans, Island peoples). Even so,
issues of higher priority now exist for Christian believers, and for
many people of color. Included are the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ; the fulfillment of end time prophecies; changes to life on
earth through global warming; and the frequency of catastrophic
weather events. Focusing on our shared needs as the caretakers of
the future has released many from the self-contradiction and
stupidity that accompanies viewing life in the narrow terms of racial
differences. Many are suppressing anger, despair, fear, or
resentment; yet, unprovoked distress and confusion continue to be
fostered such as we presently see when viewing foreign students and
workers. (While in America many
Hispanics and Latinos are
acknowledged as white-skinned; because they may be immigrants and
non-citizens, they also are treated as a minority and non-white.)
In
the same way mature Christians are saddened to see the alarming
number of young people who leave the church before they have become
spiritually adult and mature, people of color recognize that hidden
and unannounced changes are occurring in their shared opportunities
and possibilities among Americans. The response by the church to its
youth must be to become set apart (sanctified), to renew sacred
knowledge, and to impart fresh spiritual resources to neutralize
dysfunction, underdevelopment, and violence. The response of America
to its diverse population also must be to become set apart from the
manipulations of politics, and to renew the commitment to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as one undivided Nation.
No
one is blind or unfeeling regarding increased imbalance and
instability. So to speak, without knowing what to call it, or how to
describe it with words, we all can feel within our gut the difference
between treatment that is righteous, and treatment that is wicked.
Like the poor who are hungry for their own portion, and will use
alternative behaviors to project the strength needed for survival,
people of color around the world will refuse to overreact, and will
continue to advance principles and values for family life, for
lasting relationships, and for achieving prosperity. People of color
will gladly endorse the standards and values of an America that also
acknowledges and conforms to the doctrines and teachings of Christ.
Few men who strive for honor and integrity will quarrel against being
accountable to others, remaining interdependent, and accomplishing
otherwise impossible goals through practices such as team work,
mutual support, unselfish giving, and the patient endurance of
suffering. All of us can correctly understand that cruelty,
exaggerated pride, murder, and selfishness oppose the continued
existence of the nation, of all life on the earth, and of life
throughout the universe. Angry and bitter thrusts intended to
antagonize a single poor man have the profound consequence of also
fostering a return to the chaos, confusion, and streams of motion
without direction that were in place before the founding of heaven
and earth. Consider again the following that uses language from the
Bible, and a presentation from the music ministry of Steve Amerson:
(1.)
2nd Timothy 3: 1-5, King James Version (KJV): 1 This
know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without
natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady,
highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a
form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn
away.
(2.)
Galatians 3: 27-29, KJV: 27 For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor
female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be
Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s
seed, and heirs according to the promise.
(3.)
Colossians 3: 9-14, KJV: 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye
have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new
man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that
created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision
nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but
Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on therefore, as the elect
of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of
mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and
forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even
as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these
things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended (for example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPC0iXFGyJM).
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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