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Are we all one human race?
Acts 17:26 And He has made from one blood[a] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
In 2002 it was reported in the Telegraph News that Stanford University had discovered that all humans are 99.9 per cent identical because they all have the same DNA.
The 0.1 per cent is simply due to other factors, e.g. geographical, environmental etc etc
Yes of course! As proven by science, we all come from one human race!
3.2 million years ago, Lucy crossed the Saharan Desert. She is known as the mother of humans! Later generations (her descendants' children) migrated further and further away from Africa, some through Saudi Arabia to the north and some to the east to Asia. So... essentially yes. But don't mix race up with species. And I really mean one race because we are all really African. #IAMNOTRACIST #PUREFACTS
Maybe the one exception would be that human/pig fetus they created recently, but we won't know for sure on that one until it grows up and someone tries to screw it.
A lot depends on English usage. Sometimes race refers to the one human race and sometimes it refers to distinctions between sub-species such as black, white, yellow, red, and so on. We must know the context.
Yes, but you don't need the limited understanding of Bronze Age authors to come to that conclusion. In fact the way that verse reads it almost implies every race is supposed to be in its own time and place, and that's bogus. That's what tribes would say to protect their posessions from other tribes.
WTF, I didn't realize this was a resurrected debate I'd already responded to.
Yes we are. There may be different cultural ethnic groups. However, we are all human beings yes. Skin color does not randomly mean a different race or that the individuals are inferior. It's rather the actions in society that make you who you are; whether you are a man or a woman, or a growing boy or a growing girl. Human life matters.
At one point in history, if you read about the Tower of Babel, yes, all humans were living together. It didn't matter whether they were dark skinned or light skinned or tanned etc. Everything was going fine until.......they screwed up because they thought building a tower as high as the heavens was cool. God then separated all of them because the tower sort of represented one group of human beings above another......and plus they all individually wanted to be God.....Although we have culturally different languages now, we are still all human beings and we should not make war against one another and instead find common ground. This does not mean allowing rape, incest, murder, abortion, pedophiles, drugs etc to be legalized because yes, it's morally wrong.
We, as humanity, are all one species/race with slight phenotypic differences. Being a Trump supporter is a political choice, one you clearly disapprove of. However, it has nothing to do with being part of one unified human race, and invalidates your entire argument.
You're ignoring the fact that the passage you are quoting referring to children born of God is talking about a spiritual birth....it's an adoption, it's being born again, which Jesus spoke of saying "ye must be born again".
You are not a child of God, Dermot.....you're a child of sin, born of Adam and not born of God. God owes you nothing. You owe God everything. Who are you trying to fool when you try to say you are a child of God? God does not owe you one breath of air, not one heartbeat, not one drop of water, nothing. All you are doing is pushing the limits of God's mercy, committing slow suicide...as if death is in your control...sometimes it just boggles my mind how people can be so insane.
Don't worry, dermy, I won't be reading your stuff......I did once, and since you are a human being I do feel sorry for you as I know I deserve to be in Hell where you are going.
Don't think that your clown fascade fooled me into thinking you became good humored intstead of vulgar. I know your intent is evil.
How Christian of you to wish Hell on people. Yeshua was tortured to death so that any willing heart can repent and accept Him as their God. You remind me of a Pharisee.
I do like the way you answered this simply....the detailed answer is given in Romans 3.......
19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: 23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
By giving Himself as the sacrifice for man's sin, God showed He is justified to forgive those who believe on Him. He proved He is justified to keep in eternal damnation of Hell fire all who remain steadfast in opposition to His rule.
"To declare His righteousness for the remission of sins...." (He has the right to forgive those who believe and the right to condemn those who defy His rule)
"To declare his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus."
Justice was fully satisfied in that God Himself died for the sins of His man, the price was paid in full as the Messiah had no sin so His life's blood made full payment on behalf of those who believe on Him, and He is justified to forgive us who have sought His mercy and believed in His atoning blood. God is justified to forgive those who believe and justified to keep in eternal damnation those who refuse to seek His mercy and believe on what He did for them in taking their place in death to conquer death.....in Him we are more than conquerors.
I do like how you told the scoffer that he himself could ask Jesus the question he was trying to trip you up with. Fools don't realize they are not going to be able to face God and ask questions when they are in condemnation as sinners. They can ask those questions in the fire of Hell and get no answer from God.
I don't want anybody to burn in Hell.......most here are on their way to Hell and if they don't realize that they are an offense to God as sinners and deserve to die and burn in Hell, they won't believe on Jesus and they won't be forgiven and they will end up in Hell. They need to be told.......their blood is on their own head after they have been told.
The space cadet you are arguing with is trying to be God for himself.....he thinks he is better than God, smarter than God....thinks that if he can prove fault in God, then he is exonerated in death so he can't end up in Hell. He's playing a loser's game and going to end up in Hell......and by publishing his defiance and efforts here, he is also trying to lead others in his own error, to take others down to Hell with him......there is no call to be nice to people who are acting this way, they are devil minded but dumb, the devil knows he is unrighteous and lost and these fools still think they can prove their righteousness, which is zero, is equal to God's righteousness.
I did not wish Hell on him. To start with, I don't believe in wishing and I clearly said I feel sorry for the guy because I know he is on his way to Hell. You're the one acting like whatever it is you think a "Pharisee" is, by falsely accusing me and acting like you are better than me when you put words in my mouth and accuse me of fault based on your lies which I forgive due to your lack of understanding.
There's scientific proof that races differ in intelligence. It's a fact that Negroes are inferior academically. Proof enough for me is the advancement of African civilization compared to the much superior Caucasian/Asian advances
There's scientific proof that races differ in intelligence.
No there isn't you numbskull. Your claim doesn't even make any sense so let's begin there. Races are not living things so they have no intelligence. Races are a social construct based on small but visible differences in evolutionary development.
But far more important is to illustrate the heinous piece of sophistry upon which your claim is based. That is, if we add up all the IQs (not even all of them, because the stats you make reference to involve sample groups only), and then average them out we get a picture of which race is most intelligent. Just think about how stupid that is. If we added up and then averaged out intelligence based on literally anything we would get different results for different groups. For example, people who fart more on Tuesdays might have a higher average IQ than those who fart on Thursdays. It doesn't mean anything unless you begin with the belief that:-
A) One of those groups is more intelligent.
B) Whatever the difference between the groups happens to be is the very thing which makes them more or less intelligent than one another.
To put it very plainly, claims like you just made exist only as a means to try to justify racism. One has to assume racial differences have an impact on intelligence in order to even assume statistical variations in average IQ scores illustrate this. It's the typical circular reasoning used by bigots and racists, but this particular fallacy is quite difficult to see for what it actually is.
