When the term “ἔθνη” is used in the sense of Gentiles, it is often use with no sense of plurality of nations. The word is used non-sociologically to describe all the individuals who do no belong to the chosen people. But God is King of all the nations (Jer. 10:7; cf. Rev. 15:3). The divine order of the table of nations (Gen. 10) is in accord with this fact. From the first patriarchs there does not descend a single humanity, but a group of nations divided according to clans and differing language, custom, and situation The attempt to resist this in Gen. 11 has its origin in human pride. God intervene to re-establish the order imposed by Him. Similarly, in Dt. 32:8 the division of the world into nations is a divine order and not a punishment for human sin: ‘When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance, their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number (of the sons of God).’
Gerhard Kittle
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
9 TDNT, vol. 2, Kittle, 367.
“Note the interpretive framework that the TDNT makes here with regard to Gen. 10 and 11. He assumes that the division of nations in Gen 10 was God’s plan, and that the world existed in this state for a time. But then men came together in rebellion against this state to form the tower of Babel. God’s act to separate the nations at Babel was therefore, according to Kittle, to restore humanity to their previous state as recorded in Gen 10, separated according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.
Hence, ethno-nationalism is NOT a sin.
But it IS a tautology.”
Rev. Michael Shover
Over and over again it has been demonstrated that nations existing as decided peoples operating together in a political and cultural atmosphere is the will of God for people(s). When coupling this with the truth that God intends for the nations to be disciple, and with the reality that we see in Revelation that they were indeed discipled unto Christ, we have to insist that the nationalism that is required in Scripture must be coupled with the adjective “Christian.” All nations should be Christian nations — and will be Christian nations — and because of that they all will be practicing one form or another of Christian Nationalism.
Now, we can discuss what Christian Nationalism should look like and there are sundry views on that (I have my own and it does not include top down rule) but it can not be denied that Christian Nations having a Christian Nationalism as their governance is the only and singular Christian position. Any other view is … “non-Christian.”
