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Satan is brilliant when it comes to orchestrating deception. He has managed to persuade people to make problems when there need be none. No more effectively has He did this than with "race." Satan has deceived people into making "race" a problem by simply defining it as one. The premise usually goes something like this: "God never intended the mixing of the races." The inference is that there are four distinct races and that being in any group other than one of those distinct four "races" constitutes a genetic and aesthetic disadvantage. A person (influenced by Satan) makes the statement, convinces himself that it represents God's point of view and then connects "imagined" negative consequence to what he despairingly terms "race mixing." Since God is supposedly behind the argument, if we disagree with the premise, we are disagreeing with God! Who would dare disagree with God? Of course the Bible points out that many will come in Christ's name saying Christ is the Christ and deceive many (Matthew 24:4-5). In addition, they will kill you and think they do God a service. Therefore, we had better ask ourselves if these ideas really represent God.

The holder of the argument goes about gathering "data" to support his premise. He usually finds what He is looking for. If evidence does not exist, he can always "define" it into existence. "Look at the 'race' riots. Look at the 'racial' problems that exist all around the world. Blacks kill whites and whites kill blacks. Therefore, there is a race problem." The average non-thinking person usually swallows this argument. However, if it was pointed out that "blacks" kill "blacks" and "whites" kill "whites" that might infer that "race" was not the causative factor. Killing and hatred do not limit themselves to "racial types." Japanese kill Japanese as do Germans kill Germans. Hatred it seems is not the exclusive domain of "race." Cain killed Abel. What did that have to do with "race?"

Satan loves instigating irrational arguments because they can never be resolved. They are a misdiagnosis of the real problem. The "race problem" is a tangent, which, though it seems real, ends up taking one on a trip into infinity. What can anyone possibly do about his or her genetic heritage? They can do nothing! What's more, these arguments often end in hostility and violence.

If Satan can convince you that you have to defend your right to exist, He has given you the makings of one very big inferiority complex. Satan relishes getting men to argue about "nothing." That keeps them from seeing how truly evil he is.

Satan helped put our Savior (his Creator) to death. That sends a strong message to the Being that brought him into existence. Satan hates his Creator and anyone made in His (God's) image.

There is nothing wrong with anybody's existence. When we say God never intended the mixing of the races we are essentially saying that God never intended the "racially mixed" to exist. The "fact" is that "racially mixed" people exist. Well, what do we do about it?

We must tell the "defects" they are defective. People might not think they were defective if someone didn't tell them. None of us Christians is going to go up to a "racially mixed" person and tell that they should not exist. We are a little more subtle than that. We just write illogical inflammatory articles and voice our opinions to let others know that God thinks "racial mixing" is wrong. People can make their own decisions on how to torture themselves over it.

The conclusion that "mixed" people are inferior to others of "purer" heritage is not provable. What is provable is that the genetic process that God designed and put in place works the way it should. Nobody argues that we should not have red, pink, yellow, or orange flowers (or any of the hues in-between). Flower color is a result of the same type of biological function that goes on with people. If we were to say, "God never intended there to be pink flowers," some might think we are crazy. Pink flowers do exist. What is wrong with pink flowers? What are the genetic advantages of being "pure?"

God says He made us of one blood (Acts 17:26). How can there be racially mixed people? Note: The term "racially mixed" is an oxymoron. For, whenever people have children they "racially mix!"

We have arbitrarily "created" a category of people who are inferior because we say they are! Of course, the "true believers" of the argument do not see themselves as "racially mixed." Since they have no personal involvement in their illusion, they never think how their baloney will affect their fellow man. Because they are "pure," they can easily hold their "racial" ideas strongly without any effect on their life (other than giving them the illusion that they are superior by virtue of their purity). Like the Pharisees that they are, they look down their noses at and "graciously" infer that the "half-breeds" can make the best of it. From the ivory tower of their self-defined purity, they see no reason to believe that their premise has flaws. They truly place a heavy burden on the back of their fellow man. The "racially mixed" person can do nothing about his genetic background. He is left (if he believes this non-sense) to endlessly berate himself for not being "pure." Inwardly he may feel inferior and perhaps cheated. If he experiences racial discrimination that only proves the point!

Those that strongly think miscegenation (remember it exists purely by definition) is wickedly wrong are playing into the hands of Satan. Only he could be behind the vocal and hateful criticism of someone made in the image of God. Unfortunately, he has deceived some of God's own people in to pushing his propaganda! Make no mistake; Satan hates humans with a passion. He will stop at nothing to persuade us to destroy each other. Someday the nations will see him for what he is--a hateful evil being. In the meantime those who want to stay deceived can always do as Adolph Hitler did--persuade others to help them exterminate all the "impure defects" and delude themselves into thinking they do God a service. To be sure, people are passionate about "race."

Nevertheless, humans are not animals. Since the Bible says God created man in his image, it is insulting to infer that God's characteristics are comparable to dog (or any other animal for that matter)! We do not selectively "breed" humans! Humans choose their mates by other criteria than just physical characteristics. We do not attribute these non-physical characteristics such as honesty, integrity, humor, and lightheartedness to animals.

Because God runs the universe and not Satan or man, people are exactly what and where He wants them to be. What many define as miscegenation is actually the biological process God set in motion doing its job. When any two people have children, they are "mixing." Man came up with the idea of cloning--not God. God has the variety He wants because He designed it that way.

God may have decided the only way to get blacks to come to America was to enslave them and bring them on ships. He may have let there be a potato famine to bring the Irish over. He may have let the economy of China get bad so many of them came here to survive. We seem to think that we know God's mind. We do not! No human can fathom God!

In the Bible, the One who claims He is God says that the earth is His. The Eternal claims ownership of everything.

"The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." (Psalm 24:1)

In another place He says,

"I am the Alpha and the Omega--the beginning and the end." (Revelation 22:13)

God says that, "It is He who has made us and not we ourselves." (Pay particular attention to the last statement as it contradicts the theory of evolution. Man did not evolve! God says He created us! John the Baptist said that,

"...that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham." (Matthew 3:9).

That is how powerful God is! There can be no fabricated races. Man cannot "mix" what God does not want mixed. God is responsible for man's existence. None of us has to defend our existence! Our existence (creation) is God's responsibility.

Conservatively speaking over a billion people on the earth are "racially mixed" (by definition). Do we honestly think that God made over a billion mistakes? Get real! Do you see why there is no race problem? God created people. It is OK for to be whatever He made you. Any one that thinks that anything can go on this earth and God not approve it has simply stepped out of the teaching of the "word of God." See Job, Daniel and numerous other scriptures. Jesus said to Pilate about his "power" to crucify Him:

"You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above" (John 19:11).

We need to give up this silly man made ideas about race. We need to ask ourselves, what is wrong with a person looking the way they do? What is wrong with a person having the characteristics they have? If you are honest with yourself, you will come to the same conclusion as others: Human beings are miracles--each one of them. There is nothing wrong with them just because they exist. We need to like people because of their infinite variety and more importantly because our wonderful God says to.

Essentially, racism is criticism of God's creativity. If we continue to spread Satan's propaganda about "race" we are going to have answer to God. If you will just stop and think about the things this article says, you will conclude that God is in control of His universe, He knows what He is doing, and there is no "race" problem! The race problem illusion disappears when we realize how powerful God really is and how much of a miracle we all are!