Tying It All Together As we begin to wrap up this study on race, let’s remember a truth. All people should first seek their identity in God’s Word—not in anthropology, archaeology, or sociology. Only the Bible tells us who we all are by creation as the “sons of Adam.” The Bible assures us that we all come from the same spiritual family tree and therefore we all have the same racial roots. Further, the Bible assures us that through the corruption of the fall, we all equally have the same sinful, rotten roots. As David said in Psalm 51:5, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” Most importantly, only in the revelation of the Bible can we know who we are through Christ. By virtue of our natural birth we are “in Adam.” By virtue of our new birth we are “in Christ.” When we are “in Him” we are a new creation (2
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