Biblical Principles about Race: Christ Just like sin and the fall radically and negatively affected every area of our lives, redemption through Christ is to radically and positively affect every area of our lives. Through the fall, man was cast down and broken. Through grace, he was picked up and repaired. The fall made us bad; redemption makes us good, like God originally created us (Genesis 1:31). Through the fall we act like the devil; through redemption we can act like Jesus! Sin confused our racial identity and unity and created insecurity, racism, prejudice, and fear. Racism, then, comes from self-doubt. The person who exemplifies and expresses any form of racial prejudice is only demonstrating their own racial doubt, racial insecurity, and racial fear. Therefore, sin and the fall created feelings of racial inferiority in some, and feelings of racial
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