Faith seeking understanding– without race
The name of Noah’s son Ham has only been interpreted to mean “black” and this black is in a physical sense– not black eyes or black hair but black skin specifically. Ham’s name is said to represent a race, that is socially colored black people. However, J. Daniel Hays provides several meanings to provide a […]
Read More“Racism or the presupposition that one’s own race is superior or better than another is a denial that all people have been created in the image of God.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, p. 50
Read More“Adam and Eve are not Hebrews or Egyptians or Canaanites. It is incorrect for the White Church to view them as White or for the Black Church to view them as Black. Their ‘race’ is not identifiable; they are neither Negroid nor Caucasian, nor even Semitic. They become the mother and father of all peoples. […]
Read More“The Bible does not begin with a special race of people. When the first human is introduced into the story, he is simply called adam, which means humankind.” ~ J. Daniel Hays, From Every People and Nation: A Biblical Theology of Race, 47
Read More“One of the more difficult hurdles for us to overcome in developing and applying biblical theology from the Scriptures is the ever- constant intrusion of ‘cultural pre- understanding’ into our interpretive and applicational process. ‘Cultural pre- understanding’ is the tendency for us to interpret the biblical material through the lenses of our own personal cultural […]
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The Raceless Gospel 