In 2013, notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb appeared on the Trisha Goddard show, During the show, Cobb received some disturbing (to him) news: Every little thing ain't gonna be all white. His ancestry, it turns out, is a mere 86% European. To the sound of applause and laughter, Cobb learned, in front of several cameras, that he is a whopping 14% sub-Saharan African. "This is called statistical noise!" Cobb objected. "Oil and water don't mix". But in spite of Cobb's protestations, he has, as Goddard pointed out, "a little black in you".
Cobb's unpleasant reality check gives us an opportunity to receive one of our own. See, as shown by the uncommon, but very real phenomenon of duo-tone twins, "black" and "white" are some of the dumbest and most arbitrary divisions our human race have divided ourselves into. If you can be a different "race" than your own twin sibling, you may as well invent a new race for every new baby.
In the end, the fact that Cobb is 14% black shouldn't have disturbed him at all. White, black, we all descend from the same human couple, created by the same God. Thus, the only division that matters at all is between Adam and Christ. In Adam, we die, for as scripture says, "...by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Romans 5:12). Blasphemy, sloth, adultery, gluttony, racism, these are all things that separate us eternally from God.
Nevertheless, Christ came as our "second Adam", walking in perfect obedience to God. Yet, on our behalf, He received due penalty for our error. Therefore, all things being entirely equal, all who place their faith in Him, confessing Him as Lord, and believing He rose from the dead, will be saved. This offer is even open to Craig Cobb.
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