Why Christians Must Reject Critical Race Theory?

Why Christians Must Reject Critical Race Theory?


“See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.” Colossians 2:8 ESV



 



CRT is a worldview with central tenets that fly in the face of the idea of the sufficiency of Scripture, says Baucham.

 


  • Racism as normative (it’s normal, it’s everywhere, and it’s unavoidable)
  • Interest convergence (white people are unable to take righteous action against racism unless it converges with their own individual interests)
  • Anti-objectivity
  • The social construction of knowledge


CRT teaches that the only way to know the truth, Baucham says, is to elevate black, marginalized voices and listen to their stories. People and their feelings become arbiters of truth, and anyone who disagrees with those feelings is either a racist or has internalized racism.


(Here’s a short video on where Baucham explores these four tenets more in depth: Voddie Baucham  - Defining Critical Race Theory

 

 

1. Races Don’t Exist in Scripture  

 

 



The second biblical problem with critical race theorists is their insistence on ethnic superiority and discrimination against “whites,” which many actually admit.

 

 

CRT advocates, such as Ibram X. Kendi, wrote:


 

"The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination." 

This is classic racism and ethnic superiority.

 

The third biblical problem with critical race theorists is that CRT is a worldview with central tenets that fly in the face of the idea of the sufficiency of Scripture. The movement, for example, has its own cosmology, its own saints, its own liturgy, and its own law.

 

Voddie Baucham, in his book Fault Lines, outlines critical race theory’s religious nature in several ways (Chapter 4, pgs. 69–90).


First, CRT has a new cosmology. Instead of appealing to God’s six days of creation in Genesis, CRT appeals to whiteness, white privilege, white supremacy, white complicity, white equilibrium, and white fragility.


Secondly, it has a new original sin: racism. Instead of pointing people to the Fall of Adam and Eve recorded in Genesis 3, crits point to the core “sin” in society as racism.


Thirdly, CRT defines a new law: the “Work” of Antiracism. It’s not enough to be against racism. One must actively fight against racism as an “anti-racist” in their religion.


Critical race theory and its associated movement stand in opposition to biblical Christianity because it is a false religion.

 

The Gospel is the only solution to Racism


 

Scripture makes it clear that when we repent, put our trust and faith in Jesus Christ, and are born again, we’re adopted children of God with no more divisions between us.


 

Ephesians 2, and Galatians 3, 4 and Revelations 7 speak of this unity in Christ.

  • "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." — Galatians 3:28 ESV

  • "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands."  — Revelations 7:9


We must be born again. We must have our sins dealt with. Our sins must be nailed to the cross, and we must be reconciled to God. But it doesn’t stop there. We are also reconciled to one another.
That's the Good News of the Gospel!

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