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Equals in Christ

I normally don't comment much about stuff on Facebook. Typically I only use it to observe the goings on and to keep up with friends. Occasionally, I'll post stuff or share something I think is funny to my page. However, today I saw a comment that really broke my heart, and after much prayer and thought I felt that I needed to say something. Please know that I truly value the idea of freedom of speech and a diversity of opinions and this is in no way an attack on that right or those who use it.

Context:
The comment was a reply to another comment on a post about everything that has been going on with the Charlottesville violence and the President's comments.

The comment:

"Christianity was founded on White Supremacy."

History and research have shown us that Jesus Christ, the founder of the Christian faith, was most likely not a Caucasian male as he is mostly portrayed in today's culture. On the contrary, he probably looked just like the people who live in the Middle East today, sun tanned, olive complexion.

White Supremacy is defined as thinking the white race is better than the other and should rule over the others. However, Christianity is the exact opposite. The main idea behind the faith is based on the idea that Jesus, who already ruled it all, gave up his place of power, gave up his comfortable life in heaven to come to earth where he died a very gruesome death on the cross, and sealed the redeeming power of his sacrifice by raising from the dead three days later.

Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
Philippians 2:5-8 (MSG)

He didn't have to come, he didn't have to die, he CHOSE to come, he CHOSE the cross because he loves us. And the best part is, it doesn't matter what race you are, your gender, social status, or even what's in your bank account (if you're like me, prob not very much ;)) Jesus came for YOU!

Romans 3:23 says "For ALL have fallen short of the glory of God."  Notice it says ALL not some, not just people who have a certain skin color, ALL!

Romans 6:23 tells us what the penalty of sin is, "For the wages of sin is death,” So we've all sinned, we all have the same fate. But, later in the same verse, "But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."

Jesus himself said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that WHOEVER, believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16. Again notice he said WHOEVER. Webster's dictionary defines whoever as "whatever person: no matter who” So with that in mind, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever (whatever person: no matter who) believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

Friends, Jesus came for ALL people! It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are, what color you are, what gender you are, or even what you’ve done in this life, you can come to Jesus, he longs to meet you.
Unfortunately, the message of Christianity has become twisted and turned into something it isn’t over the centuries. Because just like Jesus is the hero of mankind, there is an enemy. This enemy’s sole job is to take what is good, holy and precious and twist it into something unrecognizable. Jesus even warned us about him.
“The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” John 10:10. Under the influence of the “thief”, the message of Christianity has become one of rules and requirements. It’s become more about what you can’t do and what you’re doing wrong rather than the love of Jesus.


“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28

Christ brought us together through his death on the cross. The Cross got us to embrace, and that was the end of the hostility. Christ came and preached peace to you outsiders and peace to us insiders. He treated us as equals, and so made us equals. Through him we both share the same Spirit and have equal access to the Father.
Ephesians 2:16-18 (MSG)
 









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