One Creator, One Race, One Mission
Teach, Don’t Assume
We do our best to teach a loving attitude that “Jesus loves the little children of the world.” That’s a great start, but there’s more that our kids need to understand. With evolutionary theory infused into our culture, many caucasian-illustrated Bible Story books, society’s messages, and the term “races” being thrown around, our children may be feeling confused about why we all look different and how that does or doesn’t affect the value of human life. Fortunately, God has explained it in the Bible, and we can explain to our children from the truth of God’s Word rather than society’s opinions. Articulating why we all look different and why that’s cool, is really very simple. If you need a nutshell summary, watch this 7 minute video from Answers in Genesis titled “Why Do We Look Different.” From creation and the Tower of Babel to concentrated genes and current science, we can see that diversity isn’t so complicated.
A Hands-on Activity
When my kids were younger, we read about the Tower of Babel, and I explained genes, using family traits as an example. Then to broaden their view, I divided a can of vanilla icing (milk would work, too) into a few cups. I let them pick one favorite food coloring and play with different amounts of the same coloring in the different cups. We talked about how we all have different amounts of melanin in our skin. It’s no big deal because the icing still tastes the same, but aren’t the different shades pretty?
An Awesome Creator
Isn’t it cool that God knows the importance of us understanding that we all originate from one man and one woman whom He chose to create and love? And His plan of love and salvation is for all of us. Satan has a plan of division and hate and destruction which he has been maneuvering and using throughout history, but God is omniscient and amazing. And God’s truth exposes Satan’s strategy every time.
