Over here there is a podcast I recommend cautiously;
(17) Critical Race Theory and The Church with Pastor Larry Ball – YouTube
Rev. Ball and Jon Harris are inching closer and closer to getting the whole issue of what makes men of different families, tribes, nations, and races to differ. Much of what they say is laudatory and should be listened to. However, I still am convinced that they are selling short the very real genetic differences God has ordained for the people. You listen to it and tell me if I am wrong.
It seems to me that they keep wanting to delete the genetic aspect of our differences. It is certainly true that Kinism is not only about accepting genetic realities. We wholeheartedly embrace the idea of grace as a reason that one race differs from another. (This is Rev. Ball’s argument as I understood it). However, one can’t deny that grace also includes giving one race the genetic inheritance (strengths and weaknesses) they have while another race doesn’t receive the same gift or the same limitations. This is no different than the parable of the talents where the Master gives out 5, 3, and 1 talent to three different servants (Mt. 25:14-30). God gives out the different genetic information to different races and that can be used for God’s glory or it can be used to the end of evil. (Compare the glorious Christendom of White nations vs. the two wicked World Wars between white nations.)
In terms of genetics impacting differences keep in mind that if a person of a particular race and ethnicity is graciously saved that salvation does not add IQ points to the person saved. No… IQ points is a genetic reality that won’t change much with conversion. Now, it certainly would be the case that the saved person is going to make better decisions about marriage partners and by those better decisions over the generations, upon the family as a whole becoming Christian, there is going to be an uptick of IQ points but that uptick will be present in each generation for each different family of a different race so that the delta between one saved people group is going to remain the same for a different ethnic group that is also visited with salvation. IQ is just an example. Other examples could be as easily adduced.
There is nothing wrong or racist about observing reality and so believing all this. With this explanation one is still affirming that the differences between races among the human race just as the difference among families in a ethnic group is all of grace. God decreed that the races would each be differently gifted with different limitations just as he decreed that different families existing within one race would each have differing strengths and limitations.
All that to say that the IQ of the average Oriental (saved or unsaved) is always going to be higher than the average IQ of the average Occidental (white). On the other hand the Occidental is superior in creativity than the Oriental on the whole. Yes … there are studies on all this. One you might want to check out is “The Bell Curve,” by Charles Murray.
So, while grace in conversion is certainly a differentiating factor when it comes to these matters, it simply is never going to be the case that redemptive grace is going to change the genetics that God’s creational grace gave to differing peoples, nations, families, and races to begin with. The Occidental will never, on average, have the IQ average that the Oriental has, though the Occidental will improve on this score if converted as a result of the impact of better marriage choices made over generations by members of Christian families.
It is the refusal to see that God determined genetics, as appointed to the differing races, nations, tribes, and families does impact our reality and that creational grace is not going to be changed by conversion, though conversion does give men from different races a common spiritual bond in Christ. However, that common spiritual bond still should not be translated as a reason why we can ignore the boundaries of race that God has appointed and so marry inter-racially, just as one does not reason that a 85 year old widow from Japan should marry a 18 year old male from the Ndebele people simply because they are both converts to Christianity. These things used to be so obvious before 1950 or so that following the maxim of St. Vincent of Lérins it was one of those things that by the consent of those who at diverse times and in different places remained steadfast in the unanimity of the universal Christian faith. Now, because of the influence of Cultural Marxism on the Church St. Vincent of Lérins goes a beggaring.
I don’t know how I can explain it any more clearly. When it comes to racial differences among men it is the case that both genetics and personal belief about the nature of reality creates both individuals, people groups, and races and in turn individuals, people groups, and races create cultures, with the culture then retro-conditioning the beliefs of individuals and people groups. It is only salvific grace that can break the cycle of wrong beliefs that in turn will then change over the course of time both genetics and culture.
