Race Relations and God’s Design

[426 words] Racism is a problem that is ongoing, not only in America 2022, but has been for thousands of years. Wasn’t it, in part, racism that Pharaoh’s wife accused Joseph of impropriety (Gen. 39:17)? Wasn’t it, in part, racism that kept Jonah from wanting to preach to those horrible Assyrians? Wasn’t it racism that caused the Jews and Gentiles of the early church to look down on or to avoid each other (Gal. 2:11-ff)? Is this really what God wants? As Paul took the gospel to the Gentiles in Athens, he looked around and saw that men who were made in God’s image had made gods everywhere in man’s image. Paul’s sermon focused on the “Unknown God.” Notice some things he said in this sermon (Acts 17:26-27) that have to do with our current issue of racism. We are of one common blood (Acts 17:26). He made from “one…