Sin not Skin One of the things we personally learned during those early days of the Civil Rights Movement was that all of us are prejudiced to one degree or another. By virtue of original sin, we all inherited prejudice through our common human father, Adam. We have prejudice against other humans because of our innate sin and selfishness. Every baby is born with a selfish, self-seeking nature. A baby always wants its way in everything. That’s why King David reflected: “Surely I was sinful at birth” (Psalm 51:5). To one degree or another, all of us are like Cain, who killed his brother Abel. The biblical record of that first murder is succinct: “Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him” (Genesis 4:8). This description is as current as the recent news reports about police officers killing blacks and people killing police officers. Like Cain, some
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