“It is true some of them are ‘sticklers’ for the civil rights of Negroes – it always makes me intensely angry to hear people talking glibly about equal civil rights of Negroes when in many parts of the South those equal rights would mean that every legislator and every judge would be of a savage type and the white men would be more unsafe in parts of this country than in most parts of the world where at least protection of his home government is to some extent with him.”
J. Gesham Machen
“What about the whole notion that nations think themselves better than the other nations? Do you think that is not a result of sin … that ethnic groups think their superior to other ethnic groups? BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT! We’re all made in the image of God. Somebody’s not better than the other. When Paul stood on the step of the Areopagus and he said, ‘God made all nations of one blood,’ Do you think the Greeks were standing there saying, ‘yes?’ They were, like, ‘SHUT UP. We’re Greeks. We are not like those Africans.’
Did they think that? Oh, we know they thought that.”
Dr. Alan Strange
President – Mid America Seminary
Are all peoples equal?
Yes … inasmuch as all peoples are creatures
In brief, when considered ontologically then, yes…”a fallen man is a fallen man is a fallen man.”
But even here gradations exist.
Though all peoples are fallen not all peoples are equally depraved in their expression of total depravity.
Though all peoples are guilty before the law some peoples have violated God’s law more egregiously than others (consider the Cretans in the book of Titus in the Bible) though all will be damned.
Though all peoples are creatures, God’s common providence has not made all people the same.
Are all peoples equal?
No … if by that you mean that all peoples have the same genetic predispositions
No…. if by that you mean that all peoples have the same potentials.
No…. if by that you mean that because all people are equal, they are interchangeable cogs that are by definition non distinct.
This is just ignorance on Dr. Strange’s part and is in agreement with Classical Marxist thought.
Obviously, Dr. J. Gresham Machen and Dr. Alan Strange do not agree. In today’s NAPARC church, if Machen’s views were known Machen would be excommunicated.
This is democratic demagoguery in action. Strange feels the need to flatter Africans because so many professing Christians today are African Blacks. But true Christians should not proceed with the old but corrupt “vox populi, vox Dei”-principle.