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What the Bible Teaches about Ethnic Harmony

December 10, 2020 by Andy Naselli

In this new 44-page article, I support eight propositions about ethnicity:

Naselli, Andrew David. “What the Bible Teaches about Ethnic Harmony.” Midwestern Journal of Theology 19.2 (2020): 14–57.

    1. God created every human in his image with equal worth in his sight, so ethnic partiality is sinful.
    2. Humans in the Bible’s storyline are multiethnic.
    3. God’s global plan to save sinners includes people from every ethnic group.
    4. God approves of interethnic marriage.
    5. God’s people must love their neighbors across ethnic lines.
    6. The church—both Jewish and Gentile Christians—must maintain the unity (including ethnic harmony) that Christ powerfully created.
    7. The church should welcome ethnic diversity.
    8. The church should love justice, which entails treating all ethnicities justly and encouraging its members to pursue justice in society.

Update: I helped condense the gist of this article into “Ethnic Harmony Affirmations and Denials,” a statement by the Bethlehem Baptist Church elders on February 6, 2021.

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