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A SPIRITUAL WORD from david bruce

STORIES ARE ABOUT RELATIONSHIP
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SPIRITUAL THEMES

ON PREJUDICE and RACISM

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
--Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) (attributed)

The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
--Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
--Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), television broadcast, December 31, 1955

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
--Francis Jeffrey (1773 - 1850)

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
--George Aiken

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854

When the judgement's weak,
The prejudice is strong.
--Kane O'Hara

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
--Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)

Genesis 3:20 (Message Bible)
The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Malachi 2:10 (Message Bible)
Don't we all come from one Father? Aren't we all created by the same God? So why can't we get along? Why do we desecrate the covenant of our ancestors that binds us together?

ALL PEOPLE RELATED (ONE BLOOD)

When the Apostle Paul addressed the racist Athenians and said, "God made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation (Acts 17:26)" it came as a blow to Athenian pride. They were sourced in the same original Creation as everyone else!

To buttress his point Paul apparently quoted from Epimenides, the Cretan poet: "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."

Also Paul quoted the poet Aratus, from Paul’s homeland Cilicia:
"We are His offspring."
This second quotation was from Aratus’ work Phainomena. All people —Athenians along with all others— are God’s offspring, not in the sense that all possess an element of deity, but in the sense that they are created by God and receive their very life and breath from Him. The Athenians’ very creation and continued existence depended on this one God whom they did not know! No such claim could ever be made of any of the scores of false gods worshiped by the Greeks.

GOD DELIVERS PETER FROM HIS RACISM
Acts 11:1-18 (Message Bible)

The news traveled fast and in no time the leaders and friends back in Jerusalem heard about it—heard that the non-Jewish "outsiders" were now "in." When Peter got back to Jerusalem, some of his old associates, concerned about circumcision, called him on the carpet: "What do you think you're doing rubbing shoulders with that crowd, eating what is prohibited and ruining our good name?"

So Peter, starting from the beginning, laid it out for them step-by-step: "Recently I was in the town of Joppa praying. I fell into a trance and saw a vision: Something like a huge blanket, lowered by ropes at its four corners, came down out of heaven and settled on the ground in front of me. Milling around on the blanket were farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, birds—you name it, it was there. Fascinated, I took it all in.

"Then I heard a voice: 'Go to it, Peter—kill and eat.' I said, 'Oh, no, Master. I've never so much as tasted food that wasn't kosher.' The voice spoke again: 'If God says it's okay, it's okay.' This happened three times, and then the blanket was pulled back up into the sky.

"Just then three men showed up at the house where I was staying, sent from Caesarea to get me. The Spirit told me to go with them, no questions asked. So I went with them, I and six friends, to the man who had sent for me. He told us how he had seen an angel right in his own house, real as his next-door neighbor, saying, 'Send to Joppa and get Simon, the one they call Peter. He'll tell you something that will save your life—in fact, you and everyone you care for.'

"So I started in, talking. Before I'd spoken half a dozen sentences, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us the first time. I remembered Jesus' words: 'John baptized with water; you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' So I ask you: If God gave the same exact gift to them as to us when we believed in the Master Jesus Christ, how could I object to God?"

Hearing it all laid out like that, they quieted down. And then, as it sank in, they started praising God. "It's really happened! God has broken through to the other nations, opened them up to Life!"


 
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