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From Babel to Pentecost, October 4th, 2023, you're Gavin.

Thanks for your last letter.

Clearly, it is time for us to get into the ethnic issues, or at least to start on them.

You will notice right at the front end that I much prefer to use the term ethnic as opposed

to racial.

These are ethnic issues, not racial issues.

In the biblical worldview, there's only one race, that one race being the human race.

We are all of us descended from Noah and his wife.

We are not all descended from Ham, Sham, or Japheth.

But we are all nevertheless still cousins.

We are cousins because of Ham, Sham, and Japheth.

Quote.

And I have made of one blood, all nations have been, for to dwell on all the face of the

earth, and had determined the times before pointed, and the bounds of their habitation.

Acts 1726.

You should notice a few important things about this passage.

The overarching reality is that God is the sovereign, over all ethnic differentiation.

He is in charge of who lives where, who goes where, and who looks like what.

Whatever rivers, mountain ranges, or oceans contributed to the genetic isolation of, and

selection possibilities for, a particular people group, such that distinct ethnic tribes

consequently developed, while those boundaries were established by God himself.

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