Genesis: One Blood, One Race

Pam comes and gives us his final message yes it is morning in Australia so that's all very good I am a little disappointed about one thing because I have all these students and others come and talk to me and they still don't talk Australian they still sound like they're from the South well as I said the students on Monday I have a deep southern accent way down deep south it has been a great honor and privilege to be here at Bob Jones University as I said three of our children graduated from Bob Jones and tremendous education and I'm just so thrilled at what is happening here so few institutions that have such high academic excellence but teach a biblical worldview and take an unwavering stand on God's Word and the book of Genesis starting right there and the first 11 chapters and that's why I encourage parents to seriously consider a place like Bob Jones University you know the answers in Genesis ministry is an apologetics ministry and that's what we do through the Creation Museum and through the Creation Museum we walk through that's what we call the seven C's of history creation corruption catastrophe confusion Christ's cross consummation and the forth see confusion is what we're going to concentrate on here tonight and we actually deal with that aspect at the ark and also at the Creation Museum and again I urge you to come and visit our facilities what I want to talk to you tonight is is a topic that well I got so interested in when I was a teacher and I'm entitled what I'm doing tonight one race one blood because one of the questions I've been asked a lot as I've traveled around the world is oh if you believe the Bible and you believe in Adam and Eve how do you explain how all the races came into be but I'll never forget when I was a teacher and one of my first science classes I was talking about the fact that we're all one family because we all go back to Adam and Eve in public school I was teaching there and because the Tower of Babel there are different people groups and afterwards I really just so distinctly remember this so three Aboriginal girls Australian Aboriginal girls very very dark-skinned and they came up to me afterwards and they said so please tell us more and then I realized because did you know the Australian Aborigines were considered by Darwin basically the missing links between ape-like creatures and man did you know that people from England and Germany scientists sent people to Australia to hunt down the Aborigines they paid property owners hunted them into swamps and over cliffs and had instructions and how to skin them and how to boil up their skulls as specimens for museums for evolution and I was telling them that they were special that they were made an image of God and they were my relatives and they won to hear more and so I get started get interested in this topic of races you know I must admit I was I was shocked when I first came to America because I thought America I I mean I thought of America is so Christian being an Australian and as I came over here I was shocked at the amount of racism that I saw even in the church and so I developed a message is dealing with that and I want to share that with you tonight and you know what I always tell people is look judge what I'm saying against God's Word now we can use observational science in the present that's true but the judge everything I say against the Word of God and I challenge people there may be some long-held cherished ideas that some of us have to maybe change modify maybe give up you know Darwin taught that there were different races of people had evolved at different levels and there some are closer to the ape-like creatures than others I'd bill nye in the Ark recently and he said something that shocked all the young people as we walk through the Ark and that was videoed for two hours all these young people that were there there was some number teenagers in groups and they followed us around and I think they were shocked when they heard Bill Nye say this you find these shark patterns and and minerals from ours so it is not crazy it's extraordinary but not crazy to suggest that Mars was hit with an impact or from what's generally called a home in orbit in orbit where it goes false towards the Sun but ends up on the earth you and I are descendants of Martians okay and that's not great that's not crazy is it crazy that you and I are descendants of Adam and Eve we are descendants of a common ancestor but is it crazy there's a crazy that God made the first man and woman we're the center so for me there's no evidence of it so is that crazy I wouldn't use that word what would you say it's say you're betraying your intellect you're not using your head so it so you're saying it is crazy it's frustrating but you're saying they're descendants of Martians and that's not crazy I say it is not crazy it's extraordinary not crazy okay okay so it's crazy to believe we're descendants of Adam and Eve but it is not crazy to believe way descendants of Martians I tell you I have people often ask me do you believe there's intelligent life in outer space watch the news I don't think there's much on earth so are there different races evolved from ape-like creatures or are we descendants of Martians you know we have a book called the Bible which claims to be and I believe to be the revealed Word of God God who knows everything has always been there who's outside of time has given us a history book to tell us who we are where we came from he says he created the first man Adam the first woman Eve we're all descendants of Adam and Eve you know this is important because think about it and at a university like this you're being trained so that you can go out and present the gospel to who to every tribe and nation why because we're all one family were all descendants of Adam we're all sinners only descendants of Adam can be saved so they can't be different races it's only Adam's race that can be saved and God's sons stepped into history to be a member of Adam's race now as soon as I say that the people that say to me of in fact one of the most asked questions that I've received over the years the most asked question is well where to Cain get his wife I've been asked that question five million three hundred and twenty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-one times approximately actually once we open the Creation Museum I found it was no longer the most asked question then the most asked question was where the restrooms in fact I have answered the question of where to Cain get his wife so many times over the years I actually have talked more about Cain's wife than my own oh I can see her sitting back there I'll talk about you later so where did Cain get his wife okay we're gonna do a little test I mean here we are University so I'm going to give you a examination very technical examination okay question can you marry your relation yes no probably only after counseling now when I'll say question there are people who say to me you can't marry your relative okay I want you to think about this if you don't marry your relative you don't marry a human then you have another problem do you know that my wife was related to me before we got married of course she was you know when my hair was a little darker and my beard was a little darker I walked down the street sometimes and people would stop me and say you know he looked like Abraham Lincoln and I'd say well he was one of my relatives you're related Abraham Lincoln yeah goes back to Noah back to Adam you know gave me an opportunity to talk about the Bible the gospel you see we don't think they show you things clearly we've got this idea you can't marry a relative but you do marry a relative it's just today it's best not to marry a close relative now Adam and Eve had Kane Abel and Seth the Bible says Adam was the first man 1 Corinthians 15 Genesis 3 he was given that name and because they literally read she was to become the mother of all the living when Paul was talking to the Greeks in acts 17 he made of one blood we're all related he was helping them understand the gospel so well okay one man one woman and we read Cain Abel and Seth so where he can get his wife I was in a restaurant in London a number of years ago and the chef heard that we were doing a seminar nearby on the Bible and he came over and he said to us you people believe the Bible I said yeah we believe the Bible he said oh I don't believe the Bible said why not well he says the Bible says God made Adam and Eve and they had Cain and Abel where'd all the people come from then I said I'll Genesis 5-4 says Adam had sons and daughters he looked at me and said oh I didn't read that part and you know that's a problem a lot of people they don't read that far they don't read far enough now get rid of all outside influences for a moment God made Adam and Eve they had sons and daughters the doctrine of marriage would already talk out this week when Jesus in Matthew 19 was asked about marriage have you not read he which made the beginning made them male and female you become one because your one flesh it's one man and one woman Bible makes it very clear based on the history right there in Genesis so if marriage is one man and one woman there was only Adam and Eve they had sons and daughters originally brothers had to marry who you don't want to say it do you brothers had to marry sisters now as soon as you say that say well wait a minute can't do that and and you know I talk talking about this on radio number times and once it was an atheist had called up and and he says if you believe that he said I'm an atheist he said but that's immoral I said you're an atheist you can't call me immoral and besides which what do you believe that may and evolve from ape-like creatures and anyone made it with any who what whatever whenever whatever doesn't matter you think we got a problem when we say marriage is a man a woman I'm sorry so you're the one with the problem see get rid of all outside influences just take the Bible with its history because people think the Bible doesn't answer these questions the problem is we're influenced by outside ideas and we're not thinking correctly and we're not interpreting Scripture with Scripture God made Adam and Eve sons and daughters marriage is a man and a woman originally brothers had to marry sisters Abraham was married to his half-sister it wasn't a problem it wasn't until Leviticus 18 that God brought in the clothes that the laws against clothes in a marriage in regard to the Israelites see look let's understand this why is it that close relations could marry back in history but close relations shouldn't marry today because people say wait a minute relations marry today there there can be deformities and problems in the offspring and that's true but you got to understand history when God made Adam and Eve everything was very good it's perfect their genes were perfect but Adam sinned and because of sin what happens now when when when genes are copied from one generation to the next there's copying mistakes and mutations and then they get copied to the next generation there's more mistakes and next generation more mistakes until six thousand years later what a mess look around the room do you realize how many mistakes we have we carried that genetic load it's quite incredible it's quite enormous actually it's evidence against evolution because you do you realize when you actually were the mutation rates from an evolutionary perspective you couldn't even get to the stage of having man evolve from ape-like creatures the life would have been wiped out now you need to be thankful that you have two sets of genes and and and that that they get together so to speak I always talking is this in very technical terms to help people understand it that's why I advertise the kids books to adults because they tell me we love the children kids books we can understand them but you see look let's think about it this way here's the problem if close relatives were to marry today it's more likely to have all the same mistakes inherited from your parents sperm fertilizes egg those mistakes get together there's increased likelihood deformities in the offspring that's why it's better to marry someone further away in relationship from you so one has a badge in the others are good and the good gene masks the badging in fact if you're going to look in the mirror you'll know I mean I can see it from here people whose nose is a crook of their chins out of whack their eyes will all upside adi is up can you imagine if you were constructed from one set of your genes you don't want to imagine that but see it's it's because of sin change things and so if you go back to Adam and Eve their genes were perfect at their children would have had hardly any mistakes brother and sister could marry provided it's one man for one woman and was the problem by the time of Moses those mistakes that accumulated so much now there's a law against its clothes in a marriage and different countries doing in different ways but it's best not to marry someone closely related to you but people you do marry someone related to you and so you see if you understand biblical history the effects of sin you understand who we are understand we're all one race it's very easy to answer where Cain got his wife you know and people miss read the bug they don't read the Bible carefully now if they say well Bible says Cain went out to the Land of Nod and got his wife no it does not say that it says Cain went out to the Land of Nod and knew his wife it was already married the implication is there well it says he was frightened two people who was he frightened up do you realize by the time Cain killed Abel there could have been hundreds of people and he was frightened of his family because he killed one of them see these things are easy to understand so then people say okay but then how do you get all the different races in the world to it women how can they be different races we'll go back to Adam and Eve there can only be one race the human race Adam's race what I want to do is take God's Word and build our thinking on God's Word and I want to use observational science and show you how observational science even helps us understand things even further by observational science I mean using your five senses in the present things we can test and repeat the science that build our technology and so to start off with we need to do a little course in genetics now I know there are some of you that say I've never studied genetics I don't know anything about genetics look if your Marron had kids you study genetics let's do a little basic course in genetics now for those of you who study genetics and and for their science profs here you will know that what I'm going to do is is just an overview big picture it is so much more technical and complicated and all sorts of issues but you know we have a PhD in molecular genetics who uses the same slides I do to get across to you the big picture it it's important to have people who know their field to do the research for us but you don't have to be a PhD in all the different fields to understand the big picture that's what I want to do for us help us understand the big picture Bible tells us that God made kinds of animals and plants after their kind total of ten times in Genesis one each kind produces its own kind now Bill Nye believes that we all evolved from ape-like creatures and that we all are related we're all related to animal actually do you realize Bill Nye evolutionists believe plants and animals are all related and humans are related to plants next time you go home and you order your plants you can talk to them as a relative right if you believe in evolution I mean look let me verify this here's Bill Nye again how would you convince them that they're what I say my tell my biggest biggest concern that you're teaching generations of these young people they're just animals that they come about by natural processes aren't you teaching that humans are animals are we animals yeah good so all life is related from heals like lizards from your perspective all life is related certainly even plants we relate one way it's one of the fundamental discoveries in all of life sighs so we're related to plants yes so we're related to a banana yes okay I just want what makes you think we're not related to bananas what evidence okay if you're an evolutionist he's gonna be having an interesting thought when you eat a banana or even a banana now those who believe in evolution believe that all life is related there's one tree of life based on the Bible understanding the biological history and the Bible we would say God made an orchard of life separate kinds incredible information in the genes to give rate variation within the kind but dogs remain dogs cats remain cats elephants remain elephants I know that's a shock to all of you but that's what we see now a man has a classification system kingdom phylum class order family genus species and we would say that the word translated kind of sort in Genesis one from the Hebrew word men equates in most instances to the family level of classification not genus or species but the family you see one of the accusations you hear in Bill Nye says there's men species they couldn't fit on the ark well the Bible says two of each kind seven of some and only of a land-dwelling air-breathing animals went on the ark we had scientists do a lot of research for the ark exhibits and we have a big exhibit about how many animals Noah really did need in the ark part fewer than what people realize but they wanted to understand how many kinds there were and they worked out at the most and we believe this is way over estimating and saying there's 1,400 kinds of land animals you can go on our website and find out how they got that but we would say that's way over estimating we'd rather over estimate than under estimate for the sake of this argument and what they did for instance dog has a lot of research done on dogs and you can go and find this dog you know there's lots of different species dingoes wolves coyotes foxes and so it goes on and so this species bred with this one and this one with this one this with this this with this this one never bred with that but it did breed with this one they're bred with that they're bred with this one they're bred with that you get the idea and they're able to come up and say wow it looks like all dogs are the one kind surprised and so when you look at the classification system you see there's one dog family but different gender and different species and we would say you only need two of the dog family on the ark not all the species and the same for cats elephants is probably more at the order level the secular well says the dog family is a diverse group of 34 species and so you got all these different species of dogs that we have we're familiar with including our domestic species and we read this in the secular literature based on genetic morphological and behavioral data is clear that the domestic dog originates from the wolf and so one of the dog species the wolf they're saying gave rise to our domestic varieties even to these now people think if that gave rise to that isn't that evolution and the answer is no because that's a downhill process involving a loss a loss of information so I want to use I want to use poodles to explain something to you tonight I know the poodle lovers of the world rise up against me and will protest in Washington DC next month but you see we have these different species of dogs but this is this is not evolution and when you truly understand what's going on you realize it has nothing to do with an evolutionary process that we require new information added in for new characteristics to give a totally new kind it's really conservation of information and and maintaining information or loss of information so let let me try to explain this to you okay we don't know how many dogs God made originally but let's say made two dogs they fell in love and then we had more dogs and they had children and they had children and they had children till we end up with a typical home school family today now in genetics we have a convention and as I said it's much more complex and technical this is the big picture where we label genes capital letter genes dominant genes a little letter recessive genes so here we have two dogs male and female dog big a little a Big B little B Big C little C and in sexual reproduction one set of genes from the male one from the female and we get an offspring notice something it has less variability than the parents because it no longer has a little age little bees little C's all the information came from the parents and it's going to look different to the parents you look different to your parents but all the information came from your parents because when sperm fertilizes egg there's a unique combination of information that is you there's different from the mother different from the father by the way that's when you are 100% new no new information is added should be another reminder that abortion is killing a human being made in the image of God now you can get these other combinations now I like to use a little age little bees little C's particularly for illustration purposes and as an analogy I use them for poodles because see how do we get these purebred dog we call them purebred because what we do it all here's a dog with a short nose and dog was short read them together get rid of all along those genes for dogs and so we're eliminating variability that's what we're doing but the trouble is as you do that if you don't understand biblical history then you don't realize we're also concentrating mutations because of sin and so a poodle is really not a purebred it's a degenerate mutant it's best described as a sin cursed degenerate mutated copy of the original that's my definition of a poodle now people say to me but God made the poodle wait a minute when God made everything he said it was very good you can't say that about a poodle he made the original dog it's the degenerate sin curse copy and then people say to me but will my poodle be in heaven with me there's no sin in heaven okay so let's go on here so now that we understand that so if this is a poodle if you breed poodles with poodles all you're going to end up with is what and that's sad I mean that's it see it's the end of the line if it lost any more information it's gone now could you start with poodles and breed back to the original dogs the answer is no you don't have all the information there but could you start with the original dogs theoretically and again get poodles not that you'd want to but could you and the answer is yes you get that now they make it you got a grasp hold or something this is really important we're gonna talk about humans here in a moment if this is really important do you know how much variability God has inbuilt in the dog coined the cat kind yeah I think I see this evolution is ridiculous evolutionists believe and secularists believe that life started from non-life by natural processes which goes against the law of biogenesis by the way and you had to form a code system and an information system and over millions of years you have to get zillions of bits of information people we've never seen matter produced one bit of information God made all these pools of information the earth is filled with information in the genes of living things now if you've counted the number of atoms in the universe recently you know that scientists estimate there's that many atoms in the universe so you know how small anatomies you realize that's an incredible number I can't even think that'd be 1 followed by 80 zeros do you know scientists have estimated if you took one man and one woman from this audience a number of children you could potentially have without having to - what the same combination of information as that number see when you start to grasp all of this you realize something ok so God sent two of each kind the dog kind the elephant kind the cat kind - so it goes on the dinosaur coins we believe they're about 80 kinds of dinosaurs that's a whole nother issue people say save me well the Bible doesn't talk about dinosaurs the word dinosaur is not in the Bible why isn't it same reason the word emails not in the Bible it's a modern word which came after the curse email did but you see the word dinosaur was invented in 1841 and it's just a word for particular groups of land animals with particular characteristics two of each kind of land owned or went on board Noah's Ark they come off the ark after the flood two dogs come off the ark increase in number but they split up move to different places on the earth and what happens you end up with different combinations of genes in different groups it depends on which one mates with which and which survive and and so on sort of like what we did with the purebred dogs but it happens out there in the environment look let me explain to you further what they term natural selection and adaptation as evidence for evolution in the public school textbooks is actually evidence against evolution natural selection adaptation speciation has nothing to do with molecules demand evolution here are the two dogs are good off Noah's Ark they have an S gene for short hair al gene for long hair and together that makes medium hair length dogs they have an offspring oh look they say look at this that offspring has short hair it has something new and you're not they know in the public school textbooks when you see something new like that that's evolution because it's new oh look these finches that were on the on the main London and now in the Galapagos you've got finches with big beaks and little beaks and and medium-sized beaks and wow that's new you know that's evolution and that's used as a classic example of evolution in the textbooks what were they finches with little beaks medium-sized beaks big beaks what are they finches with little beaks medium-sized beaks big beaks what will they be finches with little beaks medium-sized makes big beaks that's not an evolution we look around the room you've got people with little beaks medium-sized bigs big bigs now do you know what's new there what's new is the combination and there's less information than the parents and then you get those are the same of the parents and you get those that have long hair Oh long hair oh look these these big beaks and finches wow that's new that's evolution it's got less information than the parents so what they call natural selection here's what happens okay so you imagine these dogs go towards a cold climate in a cold climate those were short here and meet him here the cult and they died and now you're left with dogs is long hair produce dogs have long hair and over time they they get this different species and they say oh look at this this is evolution that's the opposite of evolution what about those that go towards a hot climate and those has long hair and medium hair over here they die and then you end up with those with only s genes so what's new a new combination of already existing information less very builded in the parents that's the opposite of evolution natural selection involves loss of information conservation of information new combinations of information the opposite of molecules demand evolution and over time as they move out around the Earth you end up with your different species of dogs and people get all confused because how could knowif add all these animals on the ark and they don't understand because in the public school textbooks they use the word evolution for speciation and natural selection and then they use the word evolution for molecules to man and they say because evolution speciation happens therefore evolution molecules to man has happened and they brainwash the kids but you see observational science and genetics actually confirms the orchard with great variation within each kind the pool of information God put there does not confirm the tree an exciting being Christian way there are three people excited so give you analogy this jar AREP jelly beans represents the information and variability say in the dog and over time you can get less and less variability there's no less information until you can get not much left at all and I just can't stand cats so this helps us understand Noah didn't need anyway needing a number of animals he just needed the coins now I want to apply this sort of big picture understanding things to the human kind the Bible says God made Adam and Eve and yet we look around we see Australian Aborigines Fijians Eskimos Hawaiians we see distinct groups of people with distinguishing features and we and and and you say how could that happen well somewhere in human history something would have to happen to split up the human population so that they moved away from each other and became isolated from each other you know like we're talking about dogs in a sense can anyone think of is there anything in biblical history anything at all that you can think of is there any event that could do that Bible makes it clear the Tower of Babel and they took with them the account of the flood and they embellished it over time and now there are flood legends and cultures all over the world but the true records in the Bible it's very simple we can all go home that's it that's the answer let's do a little bit more detail I still got an hour and a half to go when Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species by means of natural selection the rest of the title was the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life now people look at that and say if a Darwin was only talking about animals Darwin all along was going to apply this to humans in fact right at the end of that same book he said in the distant future light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history and then twelve years later and it was really interesting the way it was done to sort of been doctrine 8 to get to believe in evolution of animals and then let's take take it the next step because Darwin's whole reason for doing this was to try to explain everything without God and his book on the Descent of Man he actually teaches in there that there are different races of people some lower races some a higher races some are closer to the Apes and others in fact he even said that what he calls the higher races and I'll show at the moment were going to eliminate the lower races actually Darwin himself wasn't wasn't a racist and people claim that you know Darwin was showing that we're all related and and so on but in actual fact Darwin was postulating an idea there were superior races when it comes to humans in fact the late Stephen Jay Gould from Harvard University said this biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850 but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory please don't get me wrong evolution is not the cause of racism evolution is not the cause of gay marriage evolution is not the cause of abortion sinners but what the teaching of evolution did was give people a justification for rejecting the Bible in fact there's been many quotes like that Huxley for instance said that it was just in a maggot use article just the other day a new scientist see Darwin in his book The Descent a man very convoluted writing but he says at some future period the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races who's he talking about the break between man and his nearest allies will be wider and then he went on say the Caucasian and then some ape as lowers of the boon he's talking about here that fur will intervene between man in a more civilized state and he's saying the Caucasians what they call a Caucasian were the more civilized and some ape as low as a baboon instead of us now between the Negro or Australian Aborigine and the gorillas and you can see who is putting close to the ape-like creatures that's what Darwin in evolution teaches you know in 1924 there was a newspaper column in New York Tribune which had a an article with the headline the missing links found in Australia and was the Australian Aborigines based on Darwinian evolution when President Obama went to Ethiopia 2015 he saw the bones of Lucy one of their supposed ape relatives and he said Ethiopians are an ancient people in ancient land we are a Ethiopia is the birthplace of humankind wrong whole world's being destroyed by a flood we wouldn't have a clue where where God made the first man and woman but he's talking about the fact that we came from ape-like creatures and then he went on in his speech to try to justify isn't it wonderful to know we're all related to the Apes and all the animals and that was his justification for dealing with racism if you truly understand down when in evolution it fuels racism in fact I want to show you something many people don't realize this in the public school textbooks in the 1900s there was a textbook called a civic biology by George hunter was used for many years as one of the major biology textbooks in the public schools in America was being used at the time of the Scopes trial in 1925 and here's what it taught students at the present time there exists upon the earth five races the highest type of all the Caucasians represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe in America and we wonder why we've got racism even in the church because that's what was taught based on Darwinian evolution I'm going to challenge us for something tonight I want to challenge Christians to stop using the term races and I'll tell you why because when you think of races today because the idea of Darwinian evolution has so permeated the culture most people can't help but think in terms of lower races and higher races and primitive races and advanced races so why don't we as God's people lead the way in this nation and say let's not use the term races in fact how about people groups but do you know you know what the sad thing see I believe the L Sharpton's and Jesse Jackson's of this world are fueling racism by the use of a terminology that observational science says is not true here's a point I want to make to you secular scientists have been saying for years there are no different races Journal counseling development 1998 evidence continues to collect that the term race is meaningless used to point out differences in people that are not definitive see when I went to school and university I was taught there was a Caucasoid race the race the negroid race the Australia ad raised you know what never thought to ask my professors how did they come up come about with those terms because now that we understand genetics we realize those terms up are basically meaningless when the Human Genome Project mapped the human genome and keep in mind this was headed by an atheist but they did observational science mapping the human genome and then in the New York Times mm it was headlines all around the world they said they put together a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome and unanimously declared there is only one race the human race Wow who would have ever thought of that hey people I want to challenge us why has not the church been saying that because if we all go back to Adam and Eve we're all one race why have we not been leading the way in dealing with those issues in the culture because we're influenced by the world because there's such a lack of teaching on the book of Genesis because there's so much compromise with evolution because people don't know their history because so many churches have avoided the book of Genesis we don't understand a history we're all confused we need to start taking God's Word as our foundation and that history right from the beginning and build our Christian worldview in nature 2004 secular evolutionist journal humans very only slightly at the DNA level only small proportion of this variation separates continental populations or people groups and then in the biology teach American biology teacher 2011 here is the biological problem with race the genetic variation within each of the various ethnic groups for Homo sapiens is greater than that between the various ethnic groups in other words they're now finding out from a genetic perspective that what were once told different races actually there's more variation within each group and there is between the groups you know what that means the term race is meaningless when it comes to humans and this research here was done in France and as published in Nature Genetics the genes that explained the phenotypic differences characteristics like hair color etc between populations only represent a tiny part of our genome confirming once again the concept of race from a genetic standpoint has been abolished American biology teacher 2011 all humans are one race wow that's biblical there is absolutely no genetic or evolutionary justification for racial categories in human people these are non Christian scientists saying this in the New York Times near 2000 based on the human genome project said the criteria that people use for race are based entirely on external features we are programmed to recognize and people I want us humbly but but but to confront an issue in America in the church because there's different forms of racism in different countries and if we're really honest in America it really comes down to talking about skin color black and white does it not shouldn't we deal with that see I showed the young people on Monday people say to me but wait wait a minute I mean how do you explain black people and white people and first of all there are no black people and there are no white people I can prove it to you I can do observational science this is white this is me I am NOT a white person I don't want to be right now if you've got something up here you said this is a black person you put a black sheet of paper beside them they are not truly black you see everybody has the same basic color it's called melanin it's a it's a brown pigment you can be different shades but we're not different colors and and this is very simplistic a lot more genes involves very complex process but if big a and Big B represents a lot of melanin they're brown pigment and little a little B represents a small amount of melanin it's just like going to the paint shop and you say I want a dark brown paint and a light brown paint and an in-between paint and shade and so on then you can if you have all the big guys and big bees you know very dark-skinned little lazy little bees very light skin you have a mixture of middle Brown in the middle what shade not what color was Adam and Eve skin because I think we can figure that out and notice I said shade I'm going to challenge us tonight that we need to change our terminology in the Christian world instead of talking about what color someone is we need to talk about what shade they are in fact I'm going to say somebody to unite people talk about there's a group of colored people I got news for you you are all colored people if you're not you have a problem a medical problem everyone is a colored person I'm telling you just to use the term people groups and not races all are colored not just some everyone's related to everyone doesn't make a difference when you see another human being and realize they're my relative no matter who they are even if you can't stay in them you know as I was talking about this in a church in Florida there's a man came up onstage to me and his dark-skinned people say he's a black person no there was no black person he was a dark shade person and he said you mean we're all the same color yeah there's no black people and no white people that's right huh I voted for President Obama cause he was black now you're telling me that was a stupid reason to vote for someone yeah and I used it to say to the church you know what we shouldn't vote for somebody because they're Republican because they're Democrat because they're independent because of their skin show you know we should be doing as Christians we should be judging what they say and what they believe against the absolute authority of the word of God and then I was another church and I was speaking on this and the pastor came up and told me he was sitting over here on my left and there was a man with him who had very dark skin and his wife had very light skin and people will call that an interracial marriage but I'd say how can it be interracial when there's only one race and the pastor said to me while you were speaking the man had a big smiley face and he turned to me and he said this is great I'm just thrilled to know I'm not married to a white woman do you remember that Sunday school chorus we used to learn Jesus loves little children all the children of the world red and yellow black and white all oppressors and he said people it teaches something that's wrong I had a young lady come up to me at a program she said Mr ham I've got some new words for you I said all you do she said yeah I said yo I made up new words for a - she said what are your words I said well you tell me yours first because you know but I just wanna hear what you say she said how about this Jesus loves the little children all the children of the world shades of brown from dark to light all are precious in His sight oh wow I love that imagine if we taught that to our children she said to me what were your words sin you know I was sort of Australian and I'm sort of you know I so didn't have the finesse that you have and she said what would you what were you her but so well I was going to do it this way Jesus loves the little children or the children of the world brown and brown the brown and brown and dark brown and light brown and brown and brown and I'll Brown now if Adam and Eve had 200 little lays in a little beast you realize the whole world will be light skinned and that's not what we see if Adam and Eve had all big eyes and big bees the whole world will be dark skinned that's not what we see that lacks the genetic variation that we see it makes sense that Adam and Eve were probably in the middle with a mixture of genes like we did with the dogs and in one generation you can get dark through to light and people there are many families like that in the world I've met many families where the children are dark and the parents and the children are light of them parents in National Geographic mm to their place can show tremendous variation in skin tone shade like the students from Washington National primary school and they line them up from from light to dark at this school to show you they're all the one color different shades and see to understand it if this person who probably represents to me the little aged little these married someone like her her children will be like that this person represents the gaze big these married someone who like her children will be like that this was in the middle here if they married someone like them their children could be like this all the way through to this now it's much more complex than that and and there's sex linked genes and all sorts of things and tens on who married who and all sorts of other factors but that gives you the big picture that's why you can end up with twins like these in Australia twins like these in England these twins and they had a newspaper article on them later on as they were growing up and these twins and these twins and these twins lots of examples and see there are some people that ended up with all big eyes and big bees you'd only end up with a group of people that can only produce big eyes and big bees if you end up with only little A's and little bees and that's all you could produce and it's sort of a similar for eyeshape one of the factors is amount of fat in your eyelid but they're all minor minor genetic variations and even back in 1998 the ABC News said what the facts show is that there are differences among us but they're stem from culture not race and that's exactly what we'd expect from the Bible the difference is a cultural not racial so then people say to me okay well what do you believe about an interracial marriage and I will say there's no such thing because according to God's Word there's one biological race but now I'm going to confuse you there's actually two races now you worry don't you there's one race but there's two you see second Corinthians 6:14 is a principle we comply across the board do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what Fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness what communion has light with darkness which is not talking about light and dark skin but spiritual like in spiritual darkness here's the point which impending marriage here does God's Word clearly counsel against there's a clearly counsel against a non Christian and non-christian clearly counsel against be Christian and Christian or clearly counsel against see which one see biological fact all humans belong to one race spiritual fact all humans are divided into two races what is the difference between the two spiritual races the direction in which they are racing the interracial marriage that God's Word speaks against is a marriage between the spiritual races and people one of the burdens I have had for many years and I've seen it in Australia but I've seen it here is that there are parents who are more concerned that their son or daughter not marry someone from a different biological race instead of they're of the same spiritual race which is what marriage is all about and I'll give you an example we could do it deal with other examples we could talk about Ruth but let's talk about Rahab Rahab the harlot projec a ninite presumably I heard the senator Ham and yet that Rahab as a Canaanite the Israelites were told not to marry the Canaanites but it seems that that same Rahab is a lineage leading to Jesus how could that be because she stopped being a Canaanite spiritually and became an Israelite spiritually it wasn't a biological issue as to why God said they were not to marry it was a spiritual issue and I'm challenging us to look past the outside of people we tend to look on the outside and we tend to major on factors that sometimes we're programmed to major on and I'm telling I'm challenging us what what does God say to do does God say to look on the outside you remember when when Samuel came to anoint the king in 2nd and 1st Samuel 16 he came to anoint the King and he didn't know it was David and to put it in a modern vernacular you can imagine him looking there and seeing seeing David's brother and wow he's the football star at the school Wow he's tall and handsome and wow he's obviously going to be the king do you remember what happened but the Lord said to Samuel do not consider his appearance or his height for I have rejected him the Lord does not look at things people look at people look at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart practical application to end off with to make you think I'm getting close to the end I'm speaking symbolically at that stage now they're worried someone comes into your church that has a different amount of melanin to you different ear lobes to you some people have we're dealers different eye shape instead of looking on the outside we need to remind ourselves it's one of my relatives do they need some help do they need the Lord what can I do for one of my family there's places in Cincinnati where you could drive down a street and see a drug deal on the street might not be the time to stop and go witness to them you may not have a car when you come back you won't have wheels at the end of the street anyway but you know does it does it make you think differently when you look at them and say they're my relatives and they're probably going to a Chrysler's eternity what can I do isn't that what your missions probe a project is all about that you you're taking an offering for here they're my relatives they're in a place that I can't go to you know what I can do I I can help them now I think it towards this I could find an inner city mission maybe to to maybe I could volunteer maybe I could support them financially because there's so many of my family that had gone to how I don't want to my family members going how and then what about other propagate at practical applications a Christian girl she sees a guy at school or somewhere oh he's so tall and handsome he's the football style wow I wish he had asked me out young lady does he love the Lord with all his heart and all he sold all his mind because it's not the outside that matters is the inside or a Christian guy sees this girl oh she's so pretty just the right of melanin I like oh she's so intelligent oh I'd like to go out with her does she love the Lord with all her heart and all her soul and all her mind because young man it is not the outside that matters it's the inside and I do have I do have some counsel for the guys the out side changes with time look at the mother you will understand exactly what I'm talking about now I'm in trouble look I my wife sitting down there I remember when I first saw her she chased after me I remember when she was 17 and gorgeous and beautiful and now 46 years later she's more beautiful than ever I know what to say hey you know what I can truthfully tell you my wife and I love each other more than we've ever loved each other you don't fall in love you choose to love you fall in love with the outside you can fall out of love you choose to love the person and you commit before the Lord one man for one woman you know what's interesting we can talk about poodles dating marriage sin mutations natural selection adaptation Cain's wife Noah's Ark because do you realize what happens when you take God's Word as it's written and you take that history as it's written and you build your worldview and you see it how it's all connected in the exciting being Christian so we can use poodles and segue to dating now before we close before I hand back for closing hey I've always said one of the most important things is to get resources into our hands we have them over there next door and there's a book that I earn an african-american pastor dr. Charles Way wrote called one race one blood also I have a video dealing with that topic and you can get it individually that's part of the series the Foundation's curriculum kid 12 30-minute programs with a study guide that goes with them and that's like an introductory apologetic course our son-in-law Bodie wrote the book the Tower of Babel showing how all these names in the different cultures you can trace them back to ham Shem and Japheth our for answers books 120 of the most asked questions with detailed answers and in there it includes questions like Cain's wife our agenda races and so on and then we have a kids answer set to sort of middle school you can use them like for demotion devotions at home Elementary upper elementary but even use them even to said all your kids down and go through them and they're real questions our kids sent us in and they're very similar to the to the questions here because even young kids have the same basic questions and we have rhyme books you notice with our own books we have a damn middle Brown the big book of history that folds out from Adam and Eve show all the nations the world fit together within 6,000 years and we have a much more detailed one as as well 25 foot long my book the lie the importance of the book of Genesis why it matters already gone why two-thirds young people leaving the church ready to return the state of the young people in our church we did research on Christian colleges the compromise that's right is just absolutely astounding so we have a ready for Reformation pack and we just came out with our world religions and cults pack and volume three deals with the secular religions atheism and so on and then the the Bill Nye debate wrote a book going through everything that was discussed at the Bill Nye debate a much more detail and book on confound the critics and we put that with a DVD of the debate together as a set and also we have available the DVD of my walk through the arc two hours with Bill Nye and you can see how I challenged Bill Nye all the way through we had a great interaction and I presented the gospel to him and I encourage every one of you to get our answers magazine has a kids magazine in the middle and if you subscribe we give you a free DVD for each year subscribe also we work with camp infinity and many a number of you number their counselors come from here if you want to be a counselor with camp infinity or the stem camp then go to their website and I also want to give a plug for BJ you press because people I get so tired of so many Christian school using secular textbooks you cannot Christianize a secular philosophy it's either Christian or it's secular I want to challenge us tonight that I hope you've seen by what I've said this week that really creation/evolution the age of the earth whatever it is what ultimately what we're talking about is a battle between God's Word and man's word it's a battle over authority that's what it is and you know I read in in in the New Testament that the people were astonished at Jesus teaching because he spake as one having authority not as the scribes I want us to be emboldened that we can speak with that authority if we truly believe God's Word we can go out and boldly speak with that authority and do great things for the Lord and people the church needs to be leading the way in this nation this nation's in a mess you watch Fox News you watch CNN this nation is a mess and people have all these opinions and sadly there's so much fluff and stuff in the church and we need to be out there standing bold and leading the way and we can be leading the way in the race issue because if we believe God's Word we have the answer so let's get out there and be bold and stand for the Lord no hand back [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Ken Ham

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Published: Thu Feb 16 2017