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The Bible's Answer To Racism (The Table of Nations: Are There Many Races, or One?) by Dr. Voddie Baucham (Free MP3)
As usual SWRB does not necessarily agree with every point made in every resource or landing page to which we link -- we only agree with that which is in accord with the what God teaches in the Bible.
Session 4: Origin of 'Races' and the Biblical Answers to Racism by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Comment on SermonAudio: " Greatly Needed in this 'Racial' Age. This sermon needs to be heard by every Christian in every part of the country. If Christians applied these truths, both the Klan and Al Sharpton would be out of business."
Did Darwin Promote Racism? Part 5 (We're All One Race) by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
The Bible's Answer To Racism at Answers in Genesis (Many Free Online Articles)
The Bible's Answer To Racism at Creation.com (Many Free Online Articles)
Excerpts: "How could the horrors of the Holocaust occur in the most civilized country in the world? The sheer enormity of the killings required a huge network of people, so how could so many commit such atrocities? Richard Weikart, professor of modern European history at California State University, Stanislaus, has thoroughly documented the Darwinian roots of many aspects of the Nazi terror in his recent book From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany. He showed that Darwinism provided many of the foundations for Nazi principles. For example, Darwinism undermined the uniqueness of humanity, which in turn undermined the sanctity of innocent life. This by itself is a slippery slope—once society starts down this path of regarding any class of humans as not worthy of life, it is hard to stop this extending to other classes, because the door is already unlocked. Darwinism also undermined a divine foundation for ethics and morality, so moral relativism replaced traditional moral codes. Instead, the notion of evolutionary progress became the highest good (overlooking the contradiction that notions of ‘goodness’ are meaningless when morals become relative). So Christian ideas of compassion for the sick and handicapped were dismissed as weak. They were replaced by notions of the strong dominating the weak, even claiming that it was kind to eliminate the weak. The notion of evolutionary fitness was not only applied to individuals but groups. Weikart points out that pre-Darwinian racist ideas were usually repulsed by the dominant Christian worldview that all people come from Adam and Eve. But the German Darwinian racists dismissed the darker ‘races’ as being closer to the apes than to the ‘superior’ lighter humans. This had horrifying consequences in the Herero genocide in Africa in the early 1900s. ...Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics (a movement wanting to control human reproduction to improve the human species), but also on euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles" (emphases added). Click here or more about the connection between evolution and Hitler.
Evolution and Racism by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Evolution Is Inherently Racist by Tas Walker (Free Online Article)
Excerpts: Darwin considered the Australian Aborigines as primitive and not much evolved from the ‘anthropoid apes’. He prophesied that the ‘wilder races’, as he called them, would become extinct because survival of the fittest meant they would be superseded by the evolutionarily-advanced ‘civilized’ races.1 By advanced he was referring to his own European Caucasoid ‘race’, of course. ... It’s about time evolution was recognized for what it is—a degrading, racist, philosophy that is not supported by the scientific evidence, but by clever artwork. Don’t let them subconsciously turn you into a racist with their subtle evolutionary icons.
Did Darwin Promote Racism? Part 1 (Intro) by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Did Darwin Promote Racism? Part 2 (Genetics) by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Did Darwin Promote Racism? Part 3 (MP3 unavailable on SermonAudio) by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Did Darwin Promote Racism? Part 4 (Are There Racial Differences?) by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Did Darwin Promote Racism? Part 5 (We're All One Race) by Ken Ham (Free MP3)
Negro Slavery Unjustifiable (1802) by Alexander M'Leod (Free Online Text)
Why Did the Reformed Presbyterian Church Oppose Slavery? by Bill Edgar (Free Online Text)
Excerpt: "Slavery as a general category encompasses a huge variety of legal and social relations throughout history. In the Bible, for example, one can find debt slavery, war slavery, inherited slavery, and voluntary slavery; slavery in which the slave has no legal rights and slavery in which he has many; slavery that is temporary and slavery that is permanent. The pressing question in the United States, however, has never been what the Bible teaches about slavery in general. The question before the Civil War, and even today for Americans as we consider our past and deal with contemporary racial issues is, “What does the Bible teach about American slavery?” Long before the Civil War, Reformed Presbyterians answered that both the custom of Christendom and the Bible condemned American Negro slavery as fundamentally wrong and immoral. It was based on manstealing, a sin against the eighth commandment and a capital crime under Mosaic Law. It rested on a racial line of separation that denied the Bible’s teaching that God made all men of “one blood.” And it resulted in saints holding fellow saints in perpetual bondage. It was a system to be denounced, repented of, and turned from. The Reformed Presbyterians and Alexander McLeod were right."
NEGRO SLAVERY UNJUSTIFIABLE HOMEPAGE (Free Online Text)
"A Preacher of the Gospel ought not to be patiently listened to even, who eloquently depicts the blessings of that liberty with which Christ hath made us free, while he holds his fellow-disciple, him to whom he administers the symbols of a Saviour's redeeming love, in a most dreadful and lacerating bondage." - George Bourne, The Book and Slavery Irreconcilable (1816).
A sermon that calls attention to the several lamentable dispensations of providence as provoked by national infidelity and negro slavery.
The Higher Law, or the Law of the Most High (1851) by William Louis Roberts (Free Online Text)
https://www.covenanter.org/reformed/2015/8/14/william-l-roberts-discourse-on-the-higher-law-or-the-law-of-the-most-high
The Higher Law, or the Law of the Most High (1851, Resistance To Tyrants, God Opposed To Beastly Civil Governments, Law of The Most High) by William Louis Roberts (Free SWRB MP3)
PART I. Section V. by David Steele (Free Online Text)
Excerpt: The system of slavery incorporated with organic law in the United States of North America, was perhaps the most potent factor in shaping the policy of the national government for generations. And this wicked system was perhaps no less powerful in its bearing upon ecclesiastical relations. About the beginning of the present century, the Reformed Presbyterian Church prohibited slave-holders from entering her fellowship. In several sections of the slave States, especially in South Carolina, members of this church had effected settlements in the last century. The continuance and increasing influence of the system in the general government, and consequently in the Southern States, rendered the condition of the Covenanters more and more uncomfortable. Many of them in consequence had removed to the Northern States, by courtesy called the "Free States."
More Against Slavery (Free Online Text)
Liberty and Blessing in the Law of Christ by Thomas Manton
ISIS (Islam) Repeats the Atrocities of Muhammad Step by Step
The orthodox churches believe also, and do willingly acknowledge, that every lawful magistrate, being by God himself constituted the keeper and defender of both tables of the law, may and ought first and chiefly to take care of God's glory, and (according to his place, or in his manner and way) to preserve religion when pure, and to restore it when decayed and corrupted: and also to provide a learned and godly ministry, schools also and synods, as likewise to restrain and punish as well atheists, blasphemers, heretics and schismatics, as the violators of justice and civil peace. - George Gillespie (Scottish Commissioner at the Westminster Assembly), Works, 1:1
Dr. Voddie Baucham Reviews and Recommends
the Puritan Hard Drive
Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr., Grace Family Baptist Church
I want you to know that I have enjoyed my Puritan Hard Drive immensely.
I simply could not have imagined such a resource before getting my hands on it!
To have that much information from a consistent, biblical, orthodox, and gospel-centered point of view is simply astonishing.
Anyone who admires the Puritans simply must have the Puritan Hard Drive.
From Pastors to Ph.D. candidates, there is simply nothing else out there that puts so much at your fingertips.
What an amazing tool for pastors... thank you for your work.
Soli Deo Gloria!
A LATER COMMENT:
I actually need to buy another Puritan Hard Drive! I was in Zambia showing it to Conrad Mbewe (the Spurgeon of Africa) and he absolutely fell in love with it. I simply had to leave it there.
It is a valuable tool, and I meant everything I said about it. All of our guys love it. We'll probably start buying them for our interns and leadership/elder training students as well.
Soli Deo Gloria!
- Dr. Voddie Baucham, Reformed Baptist Pastor (Grace Family Baptist Church, Spring, TX, Voddie Baucham Ministries, etc.), Author, Conference Speaker, Seminary Professor, Church Planter, etc. https://www.sermonaudio.com/go/38367 and https://www.gracefamilybaptist.net
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