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Christianity and Racism
God loves all of us. Do we acknowledge that?
I chose the painting above for a reason. It’s entitled “Father and Son” and I painted it to celebrate the gifts a father gives his child, and to show how important a father is. However, it can also be entitled “God and Child”.
Some people might object because, at least in the West, God is always featured as a white man. But no where in the Bible does it say this is what God looks like.
When we insist God must look a certain way, are we hewing to Biblical truths, or showing our residual racism?
In Genesis it says God created Adam and Eve. It does not tell us what they looked like. Maybe they were blond haired and blue eyed. Maybe they were Semitic, or black. The thing is, we weren’t there. We don’t know.
What we do know is that God created us in His image. It says that right there, in black and white.
And all of us are in God’s image. Every one of us.
God is the ultimate artist. He is the ultimate creative. Not for Him a cookie cutter. He created, by some estimates, 18,000 species of birds. And who knows how many varieties of plants? Does He not delight, then, in the variety of humanity?
