Against discrimination.

Christian discrimination

Lately I have been unfortunate enough to see certain Christians on social media platforms exhibit discriminatory viewpoints. And this is not me crying "discrimination!" from some political opinion, I am talking about full blown explicit racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination of which I might provide some examples for below to illustrate what I view to be a serious heretical error on the part of Christians who proudly embrace these discriminatory views and even try to justify them from Sacred Scripture.

My issue is specifically with assigning a difference in dignity, moral worth or standing before god to different people groups, based upon circumstances of their being, such as race, gender, age, nationality et cetera.

The Image of God

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Acts 17:26

And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation,

Sacred Scripture clearly shows that all of mankind was created by God. It also teaches us that we are created in His image, meaning that in some way we all carry the image of God within us. If a white man carries the image of God, and a black man also carries the image of God, surely we can conclude that the image of God is not concerned with the color of ones skin, or any other racial identifiers for that matter.

No partiality

Romans 2:9-11

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for every one who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.

Acts 10:34-35

And Peter opened his mouth and said: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation any one who feats him and does what is right is acceptable to him."

According to Sacred Scripture, there is no partiality in God, none. God affirms justice in the most perfect sense, without partiality, surely we as followers of Christ must do our best to also strive to achieve this lack of partiality in ourselves?