Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
My understanding is there is but one race, the human race (of one blood); when the nations were divided we became a variety of peoples; one of the Biblical terms is ethnos, as in "nation [ethnos] shall rise against nation" (Matt 24:7), and God "hath made of one blood all nations [ethnos] of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts 17:26), etc.
Even within one country ethnos may rise against ethnos (people-group against people-group) as we have seen all too often, even in our own day.
The Biblical distinctions pertain not to cultural differences but to differing people-groups. I prefer the Biblical understanding; I am one race with my African, Latin, Asian, Native American etc brethren, though of a different ethnos — and we all are "of one blood".
I realize there are different definitions. I hold the Biblical one to be the true one.
Even within one country ethnos may rise against ethnos (people-group against people-group) as we have seen all too often, even in our own day.
The Biblical distinctions pertain not to cultural differences but to differing people-groups. I prefer the Biblical understanding; I am one race with my African, Latin, Asian, Native American etc brethren, though of a different ethnos — and we all are "of one blood".
I realize there are different definitions. I hold the Biblical one to be the true one.
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