Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, September 21, 2009 1:59:14 PM
Our problem is not race or ethnicity or gender, nor is it differences in social or economic status, nor is it social injustice because of any of these things. Our problem is the same problem that has faced man from the beginning and that is enmity [Genesis 3:15].
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/09/21/why_were_talking_about_race_-_again
We have come up with all sorts of explanations for our problems. We like to blame objects and our circumstances to the exclusion of the truth; we are natural born truth suppressors and already under wrath. Evil is not inherent in inanimate things; its origin is from man himself…
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man”[Mark 7].
The state is powerless to effect change in the heart of man. Its role is to restrain evil and secure the inalienable rights of life, liberty and property endowed by our Creator. Real change must originate from a change of heart where the enmity lives…
‘For [Christ] is our peace…having abolished in His flesh the enmity…that He might reconcile [us] to God in one body [the church] through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity’ [Ephesians 2].