Identity: modern terms and their parallels in scripture 1. Race Common definition: A classification of people into groups based on shared physical traits (commonly skin color, facial features), often treated as if biologically fixed. Scriptural parallel: Scripture doesn’t classify humanity by phenotype. The closest structural analogue is the “Table of Nations” (Genesis 10), which sorts humanity by descent, language, clan, and land - genealogical and geographic, not skin color. ...
Imagine that you board a plane and fly to India, when you arrive you catch a train out of the city towards the more rural regions, then you hop on a bus and finally arrive at a small mountain village. The people stare at you strangely, wondering what a foreigner is doing in their village. You then proceed to share the Gospel in fluent English, a perfect articulation of 2 ways to live… The villagers continue to stare. You’d be crazy right? To share the gospel with those people you’d need to speak in their language, you’d need to communicate with them. ...