Response to FB post from MLK, Jr daughter

I no longer have the post and only read it once, but here are my thoughts:

I did only read it once, so I may have not fully understood all that was written.  What struck me was how the post was devoid of any biblical perspective, even though the author seemed to be leaning on the name of her father, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I was expecting something with a bit of gospel flavor.

I saw nothing of a redeeming gospel nature in the post. It was, in the true sense of the word, ‘God-less’.

The authors of the PCA paper on racial reconciliation were very strong on the need for a biblically grounded perspective. I recently read over that paper and found that it offered some very helpful insights and Biblical guidance that are needed in the current conversations. The authors offer the following Affirmations and Denials:

-We affirm the image of God reflected in all people –

(Would that also apply to President Trump or any president, or politician, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, etc? That post did not give me that impression. To ‘”refuse to speak his name” is a way of dehumanizing someone. It is a way of denying the image of God in someone. Seeking to “not speak his name, but associate all Republicans with him” is a way of dehumanizing –denying the Imago Dei – of a sizeable percentage of our population. Slavery, the Nazis and abortion have shown us what happens when we dehumanize a person or a group of people. As believers, we don’t have that option, even of those with whom we disagree.)

-We affirm that for the Christian, all human identities must be subordinate to identity in Christ.

(The current spirit of the age is all about identity politics that puts us at the center rather than God. It encourages an autonomy of self where we define who we are based on our likes, dislikes, desires, or inclinations. That violates the Creator/Creature distinction discussed early on in the Position Paper.)

-We affirm that biblical righteousness has dimensions of both piety and justice.

(A pursuit of ‘justice’ is not an excuse for ignoring basic biblical piety of love for God and our neighbor, even a Samaritan i.e. Republicans in today’s culture.)

-We reject Marxism and Socialism, and all ideologies based on either one or both.

(I don’t know what the author of the post has in mind for the future, but if it is BLM related then it has Marxism at its core. Their website is clear).

-We reject as inadequate any analysis of racism that does not recognize sin and the fall of mankind as its root.

          (If there’s no biblical diagnosis of the problem – “all have sinned…”, then there won’t be a biblically redemptive reconciliation. The church and the world need biblical voices that understand the root of the problem and the spiritual solution that is needed. That is one of the strongest elements of the Position Paper.