Question: Since the sexual revolution uses the rhetoric of the civil rights movement, should we differentiate between racial identity and sexual identity?
Question: Since the sexual revolution uses the rhetoric of the civil rights movement, should we differentiate between racial identity and sexual identity? In response to this question, Christians must engage carefully in the task of biblical theology. The diversity of races and ethnicities comprises part of God 's plan (see, for example, the table of nations in Genesis 10 ). The Bible also indicates that God is pleased that his human creatures are organized by families, clans, languages, and nations. Furthermore, Revelation 5 indicates that this pleasure is an eternal pleasure for God. Those gathered around the Lamb's throne are men and women from evety tongue, tribe, and nation who have all been ransomed by Christ . Thus, Scripture celebrates racial differences. The Bible celebrates these distinctions as part of God's glorious diversity in creation. The Bible, however, unquestionably expresses only one legitimate pattern of human sexuality. Only one framework ...