Those who use race as a reason to pillage and loot are merely looking for an excuse to justify their sin. They dishonor their own parents by these antics.
Exodus 20:12-15 "12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal."
My family came to this country only two generations ago and had nothing to do with slavery. To include me, an American citizen as being culpable for the sins of someone else's father is ridiculous at best.
Ezekiel 18:19-21 "19 Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
21 But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die."
It is racist to blame a white person today for what a different white person did 200 years ago. It is also racist to blame a black person for what another black group is doing now.
I don't even have relatives who were part of slavery. Even those who had relatives who were a part of slavery would be a sin to make them accountable for what their forefathers did. I know of many blacks who do not do terrible things to others no matter what people group to which they belong they have no part in the rioting that is going on now.
It is not justice to treat people badly because of their people group, whether black or white, if they did not personally do the crime then it is sin to treat them as if they did.
Just as it is racist and sin for a white person to blame all blacks for what is happening in the riots, it is equally racist and sin to blame all whites for what some whites did 200 years ago. All of it is foolish and without excuse.
Only the devil would pit unjustly one people group against another people group merely because of a few fools in either one. Come-on now people, stop allowing the devil, and those influenced by him to bait you into acting wickedly or feeling uncomfortable around another people group.
1 Peter 5:8 "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."
Proverbs 11:9
"With his mouth, the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge, the righteous are delivered."
1 Peter 3:9
"Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing."
Proverbs 3:30
"Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm."
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