Why "Black Lives Matter," Matters

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Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A deep dive into how Scripture confronts racism and ethnic supremacy, revealing that loving all people—regardless of race or background—is a fundamental expression of following Jesus. Mike Erre reflects on a provocative Atlantic article about why young atheists are abandoning Christianity and responds to a Twitter challenge: “Prove to me the Bible says I must value Black lives.” His answer? A sweeping biblical case for racial equality rooted in the image of God, God's covenant with Abraham, and the reconciling work of Jesus.

Key Takeaways:
• The Church's Role in Creating Atheists – Research shows many young people leave Christianity due to vague messaging, shallow answers to deep questions, and lack of space to wrestle with doubt.
• Why Superficial Faith Falls Short – Offering pat answers to complex subjects like sexuality, science, and suffering drives people—especially teens—away from the church.
• Created in God's Image – A foundational biblical truth: all humans are made in God's likeness and are deserving of dignity, honor, and value—no exceptions.
• The Gospel Is Reconciliation – True salvation reconciles us to God and also to each other, dismantling racial and ethnic divisions to form a diverse, unified new humanity in Christ.
• Virtue Signaling vs. Embodied Love – Social media activism is easy; building cross-cultural friendships, listening to marginalized voices, and loving across ideological divides is where real change happens.

Resources Mentioned:
• Genesis 1 and 9 – The image of God in all people as the basis for human dignity
• Ephesians 2 & Galatians 3 – Paul's teachings on racial reconciliation and one new humanity
• Revelation 5 – A picture of the worshiping multitudes from every tribe and nation
• James 3 & 1 John 4 – The contradiction of worshiping God while hating your brother or sister

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, Mike here. So glad you're tuning in. Thanks for the opportunity to play a small part on your journey.
0:08.0	And again, we're always appreciative of feedback and support and all of those sorts of things.
0:16.0	Particularly, I want to say thank you to those of you who support us financially on Patreon.
0:23.0	That is an incredible gift and for which I am very, very grateful.
0:28.1	Today what we want to do is, and the goal, by the way, of the podcast,
0:32.2	I mean, the reason we do this is we want to help make people curious about Jesus.
0:38.1	So there is an increasing difference between Jesus of Nazareth as he's portrayed in the
0:45.4	gospel accounts and the Christian subculture that claims to represent him and that's grown
0:51.4	up around him over the last, you know, 50 years.
0:55.6	And so what we what we attempt to do is to try to note the differences between
1:01.2	the way Jesus actually was and the way that Jesus is seen and represented in our world today.
1:07.5	I've had an interesting article this week.
1:16.5	It was in the Atlantic on their website, and it was Lessons from Atheists.
1:17.7	And I always found this.
1:21.5	I always, you know, I'm a sucker for those sorts of titles.
1:24.1	But it was really interesting.
1:31.1	So this group had taken it, and I don't remember the details of the article, but this group had formally taken it upon themselves to kind of seek out why it was, particularly younger
1:39.3	atheists had become atheists.
1:42.5	And what was fascinating is some of the feedback they got back.
1:48.4	So they write this article, of course.
1:50.2	And it was just, I just thought, okay, this is,
1:52.8	we're not going to spend a lot of time on this,
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