WHERE DID I COME FROM?

WHERE DID I COME FROM?

READ:

Acts 17:22-31

[God] has made from one blood

every nation of men to dwell on

all the face of the earth. -Acts 17:26

My 7-year-old African American friend Tobias asked me a thought-provoking question the other day:  "Since Adam and Eve were white, where did black people come from?"  When I told him we don't know what "color" they were and asked him why he thought they were white, he said that's what he always saw in Bible-story books at church and in the library.  My heart sank.  I wondered if that might make him think he was inferior or possibly not even created by the Lord.

All people have their roots in the Creator God, and therefore all are equal.  That's what the apostle Paul told the Athenians:  "[God] has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts 17:26).  We are all "from one blood."  Darrell Bock, in his commentary on the book of Acts, says, "This affirmation would be hard for the Athenians, who prided themselves in being a superior people, calling others barbarians."  However, because we all descended from our first parents, Adam and Eve, no race nor ethnicity is superior or inferior to another.

We stand in awe of our Creator, who made us and gives to all "life, breath, and all things" (v.25).  Equal in God's sight, we together praise and honor Him.  -Anne Cetaas

Every life has been created-

God's handiwork displayed;

When we cherish His creation,

We value what He's made. -Sper

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

INSIGHT

All people are religious.  The people of Athens were so religious that they made an idol to the "unknown god."  This demonstrates what Paul says in verses 26-27, that God has made humanity on the earth "so that they should seek the Lord."

Have a blessed day.

God Our Creator's Love Always

Unity & Peace