Why Have Evangelicals Failed to Overcome Racism?

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  • Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
  • believe-me-book.com/
    A historian’s discerning, critical take on current American politics
    “Believe me” may be the most commonly used phrase in Donald Trump’s lexicon. Whether about building a wall or protecting a Christian heritage, the refrain has been constant. And to the surprise of many, a good 80 percent of white evangelicals have believed Trump-at least enough to help propel him into the White House.
    Historian John Fea is not surprised, however-and in these pages he explains how we have arrived at this unprecedented moment in American politics. An evangelical Christian himself, Fea argues that the embrace of Donald Trump is the logical outcome of a long-standing evangelical approach to public life defined by the politics of fear, the pursuit of worldly power, and a nostalgic longing for an American past.
    As insightful as it is timely, Fea’s Believe Me challenges Christians to replace fear with hope, the pursuit of power with humility, and nostalgia with history.
    Mark Noll
    - author of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
    “John Fea’s timely and sobering book shows convincingly how legitimate concerns from white evangelical Protestants about a rapidly secularizing American culture metastasized into a fear-driven brew of half-truths, fanciful nostalgia, misplaced Christian nationalism, ethical hypocrisy, and political naiveté-precisely, that is, the mix that led so many white evangelicals not only to cast their votes for Donald Trump but also to regard him as a literal godsend.”

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  • @tommydavis145
    @tommydavis145 3 роки тому +33

    Hate has no place in Heaven!

    • @dianegibbs7311
      @dianegibbs7311 3 роки тому

      Who said a murderer was going to HEAVEN 🥴

    • @chad3385
      @chad3385 Рік тому

      Then why does god rule heaven? He hates homosexuals. He's killed millions for being the wrong race. Hate is all there is in heaven

  • @toddmiller7876
    @toddmiller7876 4 роки тому +205

    Trump has given them the freedom to take off their hoods.

    • @wesleygordon1645
      @wesleygordon1645 4 роки тому

      Don't talk stupidity!

    • @Narrow-Pather
      @Narrow-Pather 3 роки тому +1

      Luke 12:1-2 “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, because they are hypocrites. Everything that is hidden will be shown, and everything that is secret will be made known.”

    • @cousinrob5853
      @cousinrob5853 3 роки тому +8

      You’re exactly right. Praise Him with their lips but their hearts are FAR from Him. Like sepulchers filled with the bones of dead men. If God was really a part of the evangelical movement, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

    • @jazshas
      @jazshas 3 роки тому +6

      I'm Black and voted for Trump and have no regrets. His policies have been more Pro- Christian and Pro-Black then Obama's ever were. Obama is a globalist. Do you know what will eventually happen as we step into globalism? We will lose our sovereignty as a nation. Say goodbye to freedom of religion, speech, and assembly. All of these rights are important to the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. Also Globalism will lead to a one-world government with a one-world ruler. The bible calls him the antichrist. Start reading your Bibles and learn something about end time prophecy. Not one Democrat showed up at the ceremony when the USA moved our embassy to Jerusalem, thus recognizing it as the capital of Israel. Obama talked about doing it but never did it. He is not pro Israel, the only true democracy in the middle east; whose governing body, the Knesset, has Arab and muslims on it. Stop calling White Evangelicals racist because they support Trump. They support his policies one of which gave us Blacks the lowest unemployment we've experienced in years. The job I was at hired so many Black people it was amazing; a Black manager, group leaders, a supervisor, and warehouse workers. Another thing, many of the problems in the Black community would be erased if we would get back to doing what our ancestors did. They married first then had children. Seventy-five percent of Black children are born in homes with no father; no wonder there is so much crime and poverty in our communities. Ministers need to get back to reminding believers what the Word of God has to say about sexual purity, marriage, and family. That would help a lot because many don't do it today.

    • @toddmiller7876
      @toddmiller7876 3 роки тому +8

      @@jazshas your free to do as you wish. If you think capitalism works without expanding globally, it won't. If you think Christ believes you should put yourself first about all others, again I would respectfully say your wrong. Trump is a man that uses people for his own benefit financially. He's a con artist and a fraud. We for now live in a democracy. We have never had a worse loser in our nation's history. Have a good day.

  • @joshuafleming249
    @joshuafleming249 4 роки тому +22

    Imagine what would happen if you told an evangelical that Jesus was Palestinian

    • @lack76
      @lack76 3 роки тому

      They would laugh at you.

    • @caribman10
      @caribman10 3 роки тому

      Or wasn't a blue eyed brown haired white man? You know, that guy you see in American churches? Anybody want to game out he possibility of him looking ANYTHING like that?

    • @ginahorne5248
      @ginahorne5248 3 роки тому +1

      So true! The blonde haired, blue eyed Jesus is an image in most Christian churches. SMH.

    • @caribman10
      @caribman10 3 роки тому +1

      @@ginahorne5248 My wife always says "If Jesus really looked like that back then, no wonder he was able to attract crowds!". And she's right.

  • @enriqueperez8780
    @enriqueperez8780 3 роки тому +42

    Mark 12:31 " And the second, like it, is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself." There is no other commandment greater than these.

    • @anthonyp4082
      @anthonyp4082 3 роки тому +3

      Plain and simple......one of the 2 objectives of a Christ follower, period.

    • @beetwodedfeetawrari2747
      @beetwodedfeetawrari2747 3 роки тому +1

      So if I must follow that, I must choose my neighbor carefully ? Like an immigrant wants to be my neighbor, I make a law that makes it an impossibility. I think this used to happen, and sadly still happens in some places.

    • @Babyshoes777
      @Babyshoes777 2 роки тому +2

      @@beetwodedfeetawrari2747 truth. If we dehumanize a whole people group they are no longer our neighbor because we see them as less than human.

  • @anthonystroman8407
    @anthonystroman8407 4 роки тому +26

    Called white privilege.

    • @knucklesdafunkeeog6523
      @knucklesdafunkeeog6523 4 роки тому

      Anthony Stroman EXACTLY

    • @seekfirstthekingdom4388
      @seekfirstthekingdom4388 4 роки тому

      and it's black privilege in Africa, and it's asian privilege in Japan etc etc

    • @Narrow-Pather
      @Narrow-Pather 3 роки тому +1

      Biblically, pride is what brought down Lucifer, and it's doing the same to them.

    • @LisaLisa-qo8gt
      @LisaLisa-qo8gt 3 роки тому +3

      @@seekfirstthekingdom4388 Native people are the true Americans.
      I plead the precious blood of Jesus over your hate-filled hardened heart.
      Psalms 51:10

    • @blaisekufuidi9808
      @blaisekufuidi9808 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@seekfirstthekingdom4388Black privilege doesn't exist even in Africa. Please, find out! From the colonial time up to now, White people have always been seen as superior and have always been privileged in Africa. Even as expatriates, they always have the highest status in the society so that they don't have to stand on the line in airports, in banks, in offices etc. Even in South Africa where they are citizens but minority, they do the same. So, this is not a problem of majority vs minority; it is a state of mind of a certain group of people who are hateful and always feel superior to others.

  • @aprilcumberbatch2958
    @aprilcumberbatch2958 3 роки тому +45

    This is a powerful testament to how Christianity should be, thank God for bold believers who still stand for Christ!!!

    • @electriccane3320
      @electriccane3320 3 роки тому +2

      Christianity is a fraud as is all religions.

    • @jazshas
      @jazshas 3 роки тому +5

      @@electriccane3320
      There's religion and there's relationship. Jesus did not come to give us religion but to restore man's relationship back to God the Father. ...
      For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
      2 Corinthians 5:19‭-‬21 NLT

    • @electriccane3320
      @electriccane3320 3 роки тому +1

      @@jazshas 🤣🤣 really?🤦🏾 who told you this stuff was true?

    • @jazshas
      @jazshas 3 роки тому +3

      @@electriccane3320
      Christ came into my life at the age of 17 years old. He has delivered me from bipolar depression without meds and a sniffing addiction overnight. When you believe Jesus is Lord over satan the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within your Spirit you become born again and the life of God comes to dwell within and gives you power to live above the sin nature. ...
      Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. ... For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
      John 3:5‭-‬7‭, ‬16‭-‬17 KJV

    • @StaticImpluse
      @StaticImpluse 3 роки тому

      @@electriccane3320 so you're knocking someone personal experience? And called them liar???

  • @godsbutterflys
    @godsbutterflys 4 роки тому +33

    It's All about the money..🤔🤔🤔😒😒

  • @darlenejames4341
    @darlenejames4341 4 роки тому +55

    It is a failure of faith. Faith is grounded in love. So if one loves the Lord Jesus that person knows that we are mandated to love. I have to pray every day for God to keep the hate out of my heart. So these people's faith is lacking because their love is lacking because their prayer is lacking. I'm still a work in progress but The Word has promised that the Good Work started by redemption shall be completed by Love so I practice to endure to the end.

    • @Narrow-Pather
      @Narrow-Pather 3 роки тому +5

      Me too Sister, I pray that same prayer because it gets hard to deal with ... I refuse and try hard not to allow the evil spirits in others to become mine. Keep praying..and loving. Those behaving like that are not the Children of GOD, the Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We were told of them in scripture.
      1st John 2:19 (KJV) "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."

  • @lloydfrancis9149
    @lloydfrancis9149 4 роки тому +87

    I'll have to find Jesus elsewhere, what I'll do as a Black British living in America is practice loving the Lord thy God with all my heart soul and mind and love my neighbor as myself despite the pigmentation of one skin color. When I get back to Europe I'll find a Church that doesn't support Racism. Very sad America is.

    • @antoinerodney6541
      @antoinerodney6541 4 роки тому +18

      To be honest racism was the test that tested the true spirit of "Christianity" and it failed for centuries. Whatever the entity that is actually being worshipped that wraps itself in the cloak of Christianity is not God.

    • @angvvvll
      @angvvvll 4 роки тому +10

      You don’t have to go to a church to praise God, in fact many churches nowadays distort the teachings of Jesus Christ.

    • @emmanuelcharlesbonney6963
      @emmanuelcharlesbonney6963 3 роки тому +5

      You are a black British just get back to your Hebrew Israelites roots. That is where you belong. Then you shall worship the most high in spirit and truth. You have to do some research and investigate what I propose to you. I am a Hebrew Hebrew Isrealite from Ghana and ever since I discovered my Lord and my true ethnicity, I have been set free.
      I was born A catholic, moved via born again to evangelical or charismatic Christianity. All to no avail, deception and idolatry was their hallmark. Then by his grace I found the true Jesus of Nazareth and my true identity. Shalom and wish you well in your search for the truth. It's all in the scriptures.

    • @CarpsterKing
      @CarpsterKing 3 роки тому +4

      Your prayers are answered ... ancient Israel and Jesus are Blacks.....the whites hijacked and they portray Jesus as a white .....ancients Israelite depicted in Egyptians mural portray the Israelite as having Afro hairstyle and colored....

    • @CarpsterKing
      @CarpsterKing 3 роки тому +3

      The Book of Deuteronomy 28:15-68 predicted that GOD will curse the Israelite for their disobedience against HIS commandments and the wrath against the Israelite has been going on for the past 2500 years and only
      the Blacks fitted into this description ....enslavement by the Europeans and US ...the 12 tribes of Israel
      were scattered all around the World and they were being subjected to trial and tribulations and the time will come and they will all be gathered together to return to their homeland ( Jerusalem ) GOD has promised them when they have repented and follow GOD's commandments again....has the present day Jews and their ancestors in Israel being subjected to slavery before ???? NO....
      Period.....

  • @marthacarter6750
    @marthacarter6750 3 роки тому +30

    This person has spoken the burden on my heart It makes me sad to see the Evangelicals lose sight on what God expects of them I am a Christian for50 years and have seen a lot within Christian circles It’s really sad and I refuse to be a part of any of it.America has been blessed by God we are not a Christian nation
    but christians in a nation Christians have failed on many levels👏🏽

    • @ldioticnuzhen99
      @ldioticnuzhen99 2 роки тому

      America is not christian country you doIt, its universal country without religion based country.. ldiot

    • @tracysmith9900
      @tracysmith9900 2 роки тому +2

      Wow.....very insightful you get it...God Bless you

    • @sweetpea32pj
      @sweetpea32pj 2 роки тому +4

      "we are not a Christian nation but Christians in a nation..." That's good. I'll be writing that one down. God bless you.

    • @ldioticnuzhen99
      @ldioticnuzhen99 2 роки тому

      @@sweetpea32pj islam is nation as well

    • @chad3385
      @chad3385 Рік тому

      No. They are following God. This is what the Bible commands. It's not moral. But it is gods wishes

  • @mariag8307
    @mariag8307 4 роки тому +13

    They can remain racist because they don't have a relationship with Jesus, they have a religious relationship with bible and there is a difference. You can not meet Jesus and remain the same.

    • @Listenthenspk
      @Listenthenspk 2 роки тому +1

      This whole comment 👆🏾👆🏽👆

  • @carmengreenwood5369
    @carmengreenwood5369 3 роки тому +5

    Especially in the south. The older people never forget Jim Crow.

  • @JonWintersGold
    @JonWintersGold 3 роки тому +12

    This man’s words are so true.

  • @derrickburwell7777
    @derrickburwell7777 4 роки тому +14

    "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear,
    because fear involves torment.
    But he who fears has not been made perfect in love." - 1 John 4:18
    Why is this important?
    Because God is love. - 1 John 4:8

  • @bluzewaht.8816
    @bluzewaht.8816 4 роки тому +9

    We are deceived unless we have the spirit of discernment. They hide behind the name of religion.

  • @pamworly8923
    @pamworly8923 3 роки тому +7

    I just saw a Billy Graham commercial speaking about the healing of this nation. It showed a African American man talking about how he in his own way was trying to bring us together. But I've seen other church people still fighting that 45 was cheated in the election. Im African American and as much as I would love to see us all come together in Christ 💘 sadly I don't know if we can. The most segregated hour is 11am Sunday morning. In the south especially during slavery the Bible was used to justify selling beating and all horrors of the slave trade. When plantation owners would let the slaves come together a overseer was present. And since reading was forbidden the slave minister was told what to preach. The one scripture that was always used was slaves be obedient to your masters. And masters were told to treat the slave justly. This thinking held for so long that when the Southern Baptist college came out with a apology some of the churches left the organization. This is sad. All of the televangelist who were so against President Obama were quick to take 45 as one of their own. Each man and woman has to search and pray to God as to what they want to do. America will get through this, but we must be honest enough to ask for forgiveness and not be so stuck in the political arena. We are taught to respect those who are in a position of authority. But not worship them.

    • @pamtebelman2321
      @pamtebelman2321 2 роки тому

      On target and very well said, my dear! The irony here is that politics is fake (worldly) power, and compared to the real power which is found in the Spirit and in obedience to God's Word, politics is nothing and doesn't achieve God's purposes in the earth with regard to His Church. Political evangelicals are not only wasting their time but, by worshiping Trump, are showing the Church to be utterly distasteful to the unbelieving world that desperately needs to respond positively to the Gospel of Christ. I believe this represents demonic deception and subtlety at the highest level. Spiritual unity and power cannot be achieved through political affiliations, but rather is achieved exclusively through the Holy Spirit. God bless!

    • @MrsBridgette2012
      @MrsBridgette2012 10 місяців тому +2

      This slavery topic is exactly what makes me know that the Bible is written by men. There is so much more, against women for one. But really, I can not believe that the god that created everything and everyone would write such a book. Telling slaves to obey their masters,even if they’re unjust. How convenient for the men running the system. And then women are supposed to be silent and submissive. How convenient for men. Why would God, need any human being to be robbed of their humanity? Personally I am totally dumbfounded that I fell for this all these years. I actually was searching,”Why are evangelicals prejudice?” And I got this result and started reading comments. Good luck to you in your search for truth. We’re on our own.

  • @addis1395
    @addis1395 4 роки тому +37

    I hope God uses to awaken the church to their sins of racism and help them unite Christians of all races because heaven is diverse.

    • @Narrow-Pather
      @Narrow-Pather 3 роки тому +5

      Before we are judged, GOD makes us aware of our sins so that we can repent if it's in our hearts. The Evangelicals aren't repenting, they are parading their feigned superiority and lying on GOD and about the Word of God in order to justify their evils. I've prayed for them, but I don't think repentance is in their hearts. Their "claim to fame" existence is tied to the color of their skin, not Jesus Christ or the Gospel.
      1st John 2:19 (KJV) "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."

    • @danielvso
      @danielvso 3 роки тому

      You are an idiot. The Leftist agenda is much more important to you than the "evangelical faith".

    • @addis1395
      @addis1395 3 роки тому

      @@danielvso Happy New Year. I you don't have to call me an idiot for stating the fact. I am not for the right nor for the left
      I know all are lost. The right can't tell God they love Him by entertaining racism and disdain for people of color. The left are lost because they have broken God's moral laws as well .

    • @googlejustice8838
      @googlejustice8838 3 роки тому

      addis 13 thank you again & again! Had to go back & edit. Google/Ytube keeps putting my comments in places as though I'm thinking like a racist. You have to almost put the name to the people you are replying to or they'll have you on the wrong side. I think they do it to Mr H. all the time. Seems as though he's pro one day & con the next 😀

    • @googlejustice8838
      @googlejustice8838 3 роки тому

      @@danielvso Another one of those Good Faith God Fearing Righties Right? I can tell by your comments (like you talk & think)

  • @onamiilove777
    @onamiilove777 3 роки тому +4

    Refreshing and very sound info. Thank you for truth and love. Respect!!

  • @toscatattertail9813
    @toscatattertail9813 3 роки тому +5

    As far as i am concerned i have yet to meet someone who claims to be evangelical that actually follows the teachings of Jesus prior to his death.

    • @jazshas
      @jazshas 2 роки тому

      And you've met everyone who is an evangelical? I don't think so.

  • @ccwhite12345
    @ccwhite12345 3 роки тому +1

    Very powerful!!! This explains so much I just could not understand !

  • @411jamal
    @411jamal 3 роки тому +27

    In addition, evangelicals have literalist approach to the Bible. That's the source of their bigotry: ignorance of the scripture

    • @411jamal
      @411jamal 3 роки тому

      @Gerry Hagen without a doubt

    • @411jamal
      @411jamal 3 роки тому

      @Gerry Hagen what are you saying exactly? 🤣

    • @gocrazy3564
      @gocrazy3564 3 роки тому

      @Gerry Hagen This is common knowledge. Some of the characters in the Bible didn't even exist and some of the events written in the Bible never happened.

    • @gocrazy3564
      @gocrazy3564 3 роки тому

      @Gerry Hagen "I'll considered comment"
      So prove me wrong using sources outside the Bible.

    • @gocrazy3564
      @gocrazy3564 3 роки тому

      @Gerry Hagen The burden of proof is on you. You believe in the resurrection without evidence, you believe that people lived to be 900 years old, you believe that mythical events like the flood and the Exodus happened so it's on you to prove that these things actually happened.

  • @chinadoll8803
    @chinadoll8803 3 роки тому

    Brother you said a mouthful in your brief message. AMEN

  • @MrOverdogg
    @MrOverdogg 3 роки тому +5

    they have this cute name now (evangelicals) they are the same people who believe it's ok to own and enslave humans because there skin color is dark..they are Christians in name only. they have hearts that are hard as bricks.

    • @StaggerLee68
      @StaggerLee68 3 роки тому

      They are true Christians and embrace all of their lord's hate.

  • @journey4601
    @journey4601 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for speaking the truth and speaking up. God bless you!!

  • @moewilliams9867
    @moewilliams9867 3 роки тому +4

    It's to show that most so called evangelists are not born again.

  • @elizabethyisak5312
    @elizabethyisak5312 3 роки тому +41

    That is why the evangelist loses the young generation and they make them turn away from God.

    • @cmelora
      @cmelora 3 роки тому +7

      I left the faith since the 80’s when the church’s platform turned Republican

    • @lisamay5649
      @lisamay5649 3 роки тому +5

      Elizabeth Yizak, and that is why they will have to answer to God at Judgment Day about their hatred.

    • @danielvso
      @danielvso 3 роки тому

      You are a liar. The Leftist agenda is much more important to you than the "evangelical faith".

    • @andrewortiz5797
      @andrewortiz5797 3 роки тому +3

      @@danielvso politics are from the world. Peter and Paul were not republicans or democrats, they were too busy doing The Great Commission and didnt get involved with the worlds problems and concerns,, and many false prophets have deceived many. Heres a Verse that explains much, its Malachi 3:5. this Verse tells how God feels about all this.

    • @kishiberohan7955
      @kishiberohan7955 3 роки тому +2

      @@danielvso ok boomer

  • @b4realjenkins625
    @b4realjenkins625 3 роки тому +11

    I thank you sir, as a pastor that you said this, because with all God has given to us(body of christ) we could have done better, so let's start today together, my prayer.

    • @jerrycallender9927
      @jerrycallender9927 2 роки тому

      The only gods are in the minds of the indoctrinated.
      No imaginary creature has given anyone anything.

  • @aaronaverheart4567
    @aaronaverheart4567 4 роки тому +2

    Getting knowledge of self is the best way to live.

  • @Seguindocomaboleia
    @Seguindocomaboleia 3 роки тому +6

    When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
    Adulterers, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
    James 4: 4

  • @pat7188
    @pat7188 3 роки тому +2

    Evangelicals need to overcome their belief in things that don't exist.

  • @enriqueperez8780
    @enriqueperez8780 3 роки тому +4

    John 8:15 "You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

    • @Narrow-Pather
      @Narrow-Pather 3 роки тому +1

      John 7:24 (KJV)
      "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

  • @Khirisitini
    @Khirisitini 4 роки тому +2

    I've found myself on this page because I am trying to understand where the voices of white evangelicals are in speaking against racism in America today in may/june 2020. How can one claim to love God and yet sit quietly as His creation is destroyed?? How? Jesus's heart must be breaking

    • @redd1911
      @redd1911 4 роки тому

      Same here.

    • @Khirisitini
      @Khirisitini 4 роки тому

      @Jan Pearson do tell how did it all happen? seems like you had a front row seat

    • @abdussametfiliz5484
      @abdussametfiliz5484 4 роки тому

      redd1911 is Jesus god ? And if he is how can Gods heart break.. read about islam search for the truth.

    • @Khirisitini
      @Khirisitini 4 роки тому

      @@abdussametfiliz5484 Jesus is fully God and yet fully human so He has emotions. Thanks for your offer but I already found the truth and it set me free. If you're wondering about Jesus, you can pray and ask Him to reveal Himself to you and see if He won't do it.

  • @MsAppleofhiseye
    @MsAppleofhiseye 3 роки тому +2

    They failed to overcome because they refused to repent and acknowledge that they are racist

  • @carlcullen5059
    @carlcullen5059 4 роки тому +3

    I can only see flames around evangelical.

  • @leetate1963
    @leetate1963 3 роки тому +4

    At least he’s being honest about it

  • @babyteano1977
    @babyteano1977 4 роки тому +41

    Beware of false prophets

    • @michaelpondo6324
      @michaelpondo6324 4 роки тому +12

      Trump conned these evangelicals into thinking he could stop abortions and prevent the country from becoming a godless society.

    • @derlinclair4867
      @derlinclair4867 4 роки тому +2

      Well to be God honest,Trump is rather Hateful, disrespectful, and he han, t really helped the Poor & Sick in this ountryHe,s the complete Opposite of what a true Christian is really supposed to conduct theirself, friends.

    • @seekfirstthekingdom4388
      @seekfirstthekingdom4388 4 роки тому

      @Steve Trump is the only man holding the USA together. It makes perfect sense that his childhood pastor was Norman Peale

    • @seekfirstthekingdom4388
      @seekfirstthekingdom4388 4 роки тому +1

      @Steve lol. yes, "The Power of Positive Thinking" was written by the devil incarnate. sounds like Satan is your daddy.

    • @seekfirstthekingdom4388
      @seekfirstthekingdom4388 4 роки тому +1

      @Steve amazin'. hell isn't a place in the afterlife, it's here, and you are a prime example of someone currently living in it!

  • @pwallacepugh
    @pwallacepugh 3 роки тому +1

    Perfect love drives out fear. If there is such fear one questions the love.

  • @user-hy3vp5kp1o
    @user-hy3vp5kp1o 2 роки тому +1

    It's impossible for one to overcome what one is perpetrating...

  • @larryroberts8512
    @larryroberts8512 2 роки тому +8

    It is difficult for a small group of individuals to defeat racism while our own large powerful government creates racism at every turn in the name of defeating it.

  • @rosiethomas9497
    @rosiethomas9497 4 роки тому +3

    I would like to know why do evangelicals have a bad reputation?

    • @azazel166
      @azazel166 4 роки тому +1

      Their behavior is nearly the same as that of Muslims, except they are fortunately for all of us all talk and no action.

    • @crazyduck7040
      @crazyduck7040 3 роки тому

      @@azazel166 bullshit

    • @burtonkephart6239
      @burtonkephart6239 2 роки тому +1

      I would like to know WHO ARE EVANGELICALS??? Versus the church as a whole or versus Protestant versus catholic or catholic versus orthodox ????!!! Dividing the church up the way you people are is dangerous and indeed itself very spiritually RACIST!!!!

  • @jonstrickland4848
    @jonstrickland4848 4 роки тому +4

    Exodus 31 should be enough for any person with a shred of morality to not believe that faith.

  • @okuma_qadr
    @okuma_qadr 3 роки тому +3

    why have bees failed to stop buzzing...
    why have fish failed to stop swimming...

  • @jamesk8060
    @jamesk8060 4 роки тому +3

    That’s because to be a Christian is not just about declaring yourself to be a Christian or going to church or reading the Bible. You can do all of that be a bankrupt Christian if you don’t live and follow the teaching of Jesus.

  • @poetry7260
    @poetry7260 4 роки тому +6

    I do agreed that there is a need for divine justice. You never know who will suffer. I just try not to be deceptive.

  • @losgoodmusicmandrell8371
    @losgoodmusicmandrell8371 3 роки тому +2

    No matter what every man & woman will stand before GOD and give account of what’s in their hearts. Judgement coming soon

  • @fowlkeskm
    @fowlkeskm 2 роки тому +1

    They haven't overcome it because they don't want to. Call it what it is.

  • @TrakeM118
    @TrakeM118 4 роки тому +2

    So, he starts with the objective reality of what evangelicals have done and what evangelicals are supporting. The objective reality that evangelicals are where you find most of the racism in America. He then goes on to talk about the theory of what evangelicalism is supposed to be. He goes into his theories and ideas about what evangelical should mean. So, we have a difference between the objective reality of evangelical christianity and the theory of christianity. Thus, the obvious question, do you believe in objective reality OR this theory. You can only pick one since they clearly don't agree with each other.

  • @MarioRomero-cc4oj
    @MarioRomero-cc4oj 4 роки тому +6

    I think they are overcome by money

    • @Narrow-Pather
      @Narrow-Pather 3 роки тому

      1 John 2:19 (KJV) "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."

  • @chelabuford7106
    @chelabuford7106 3 роки тому +1

    Selfishness vs Selflessness

  • @quine9386
    @quine9386 3 роки тому +3

    Because they choose to be it is simple as that. How can you be a Christian of God and have that type hate in your heart because of a person skin color.☝️☝️☝️

  • @wideawake5630
    @wideawake5630 4 роки тому +1

    Matt. 7:21-23

  • @mightyman63
    @mightyman63 3 роки тому

    He is on point

  • @theoccasionalvideo
    @theoccasionalvideo 3 роки тому +1

    They believe that they have locked God into an exclusive contract with a non-compete clause.

  • @Bamruff62
    @Bamruff62 3 роки тому +1

    Why did Evangelicals become so Economic elitist and opposed to working class values.? Many Evangelical Christians and Fundamentalists I've been around are so anti-progressive economics. Many Evangelicals were very pro New Deal in the 1930s.
    William Jennings Bryan was very much a Liberal Fundamentalist, and very much an Economic Progressive. He was definitely the AOC and Bernie Sanders of his era.
    ... Many Evangelical/Conservative Christians have sold their soul to the Republican Party and Wall Street Economics, and Wall Street Bankers.
    ... Race and Abortion are very affective " wedge " issues that have manage to really pry Devout Christians from their values, and to go with the Party that is antithetical to their core religious values.

  • @pipestone67
    @pipestone67 2 роки тому +1

    I have found that denomination tribalism is what stands in the way most of the time. Churches remain segregated for the most part currently. Children are not born racist, it is learned and reinforced by their parents.

  • @GentlemanJack295
    @GentlemanJack295 2 роки тому +1

    He really doesn't answer the question fully but right there at the end he mentions Christian Nationalism but doesn't connect that to racism.

  • @jaytc3218
    @jaytc3218 Рік тому

    Mr. Eerdmans, did I hear you correctly when you said that the dignity of all human beings is a resource of Evangelical Christians? And that this idea goes back to the 17th century?

  • @BlackShogun1
    @BlackShogun1 3 роки тому +1

    The fact you even have to ask that Question about Trump is why I'm not a Christian and never will be.

  • @jayyoung4534
    @jayyoung4534 3 роки тому

    In today's political climate, are there similarities between the close of The Reconstruction and the rise of the Redeemers, 1877? Anyone?

  • @tracysmith1902
    @tracysmith1902 3 роки тому +1

    They aren't saved ,everyone crying LORD LORD will not be saved,these people are self righteous

  • @jefftube58
    @jefftube58 4 роки тому +2

    This is a non-subject. The mission of the New Testament church as described in Paul's epistles, is to make disciples-disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not responsible to cause social change regarding racism. All people are of the human race, in various expressions of skin color, physical appearance, and ethnicity.

  • @teddarden1315
    @teddarden1315 3 роки тому +1

    I feel our nation is in what it is due to the lack of integrity and honesty of the church as indicated through scriptures from the very beginning of this nation. The church has been either Democratic, Republican, rather than THEOCRATIC. When God people choose to look to the world governments, like the Pharisees and Sadducees, they missed Jesus, his Disciples, the gospel, and reinvent their own version of the gospel. Which examples was played out throughout Paul's ministry and regions he spread the True gospel. We are experiencing the American gospel fallen. The American gospel is different if you are conservative, liberal, black, white, Latino, rich or poor, etc. The American gospel is subject to interpretation by the modern day Pharisees and Sadducees who's discussing things that has no bearing to the scriptures or to God's Kingdom that will come eventually and destroy all these kingdoms, including the U.S.A. I can't speak for God regarding America, and other nations who claim to be christian- driven. I don't want to be like Job's companions who was speaking well - but not according to God. They were almost kill by God because of it. But based on the history of this country's genocides. Inhumane deeds, crimes, injust policies, laws, wars internationally and internally - yet force to be the moral compass of the world, without judging itself and holding itself accountable-- is a disgrace and is being reveal now to the world. Most of the above mentioned was either started through the church under the (nation pride) banner or condone by the church based on their silences or complacency. Either way now people of the world see us as hypocritical or irrelevant. Now new generations are seeing religion particularly those who represent Christianity as responsible for the way things are now.

  • @annewantschange1200
    @annewantschange1200 3 роки тому +1

    Fear of death is what brings people to church people that are afraid of the afterlife take on religion. Isn't that what it is all about going to heaven, not hell? Every religious person that came to my door to talk to me about it all pointed that out first. So yes fear is a big factor.

  • @ncikcrias508
    @ncikcrias508 2 роки тому

    At least there is one evangelical in the entire world with some self awareness.

  • @monalisa542
    @monalisa542 3 роки тому +2

    To answer the question, simply, they just don!t want to, and Jesus better keep his mouth shut about it.

  • @suesfriend1431
    @suesfriend1431 Рік тому

    Aweing

  • @jandittmann72
    @jandittmann72 3 роки тому +1

    They want the richest people, not the poorest

  • @TheOneAndOnlyRalph
    @TheOneAndOnlyRalph 3 роки тому +2

    Money Its all about Money!

  • @ceeburts
    @ceeburts 2 роки тому

    What’s in a man’s heart will come out. So if you’re wicked stay wicked! AbbaYah got you!!!

  • @f.marshall8268
    @f.marshall8268 3 роки тому

    Sad reality !

  • @janetlittle8990
    @janetlittle8990 3 роки тому +1

    Yea, but they was taking that money though. Everybody was hoodwinked.😎

  • @kristyn7072
    @kristyn7072 3 роки тому

    They failed to do it because they were overcomed by politics

  • @AQG24
    @AQG24 2 роки тому +1

    Psalms 83 is why

  • @Christ_Is_Life10-10
    @Christ_Is_Life10-10 4 роки тому +2

    Not all Christians follow the gospel of Jesus or read/study the Bible. Satan uses them as a tool to divide humanity.

  • @Thelivingwordthesword
    @Thelivingwordthesword 3 роки тому +2

    Satan already has you where he wants you

  • @caridadgarcia6585
    @caridadgarcia6585 3 роки тому +2

    I'M SORRY FOR THEM FOR ME THE LORD GOD IS EVERYTHING I'M SO GLAD I SAID GOODBYE TO EVANGELICAL 4 YEARS AGO. YOU CAN'T SERVED TWO LORDS AT ONCE AND MY LORD IS THE ONLY I SERVED

  • @donayers5925
    @donayers5925 3 роки тому

    We haven't! The ground is level at the foot of the cross !

  • @tyroneashford1195
    @tyroneashford1195 3 роки тому +1

    Well said Matt Holsen. I could not have said it better. O' the semantics..(After he murdered him) "Am I my brothers keeper." ---Cain.
    -MIN. OBI Ha'Shem.

  • @pamelafranklin3452
    @pamelafranklin3452 2 роки тому +1

    They are afraid of becoming equal

  • @herojiro6999
    @herojiro6999 3 роки тому

    They are divided by "love they neighbor" and the profit motive, and anti abortion

  • @charlestonluxor848
    @charlestonluxor848 4 роки тому

    What specifically are evangelicals doing or saying that makes them racists?

    • @earlem9771
      @earlem9771 4 роки тому +6

      Not loving their neighbours as themselves regardless of skin color, that’s what they aren’t doing. They are full of pride as well

  • @bkucenski
    @bkucenski 2 роки тому +2

    Imagine being concerned about losing God's favor after chattel slavery and the endless murder and displacement of natives.
    Often people in the Bible lament why the wicked prosper.
    And here the far right Evangelicals are worried if they don't keep being wicked they won't prosper.

  • @gkeith64
    @gkeith64 3 роки тому

    Ezekiel 33:7
    thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.........
    Zechariah 11:5-7 King James Version
    5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not
    There4 i am compelled....
    In the end times of affliction, see gen 15:13-14 & Acts 7:6-7, is it possible we have already been deceived, even the elect, for 500 years? In my research and reading. The experiences that have happened since my findings and realizations. I beseech your consideration on the following please.
    Yerimiyah 16:19
    O *LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
    *LORD all capitals = YhWh rather YahUah
    HoseYaH 4:6 King James Version (KJV)
    6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy ELohiym, I will also forget thy children....
    Yahucannon, (John) 4:22 Proper Name Version (PNV)
    22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Yahudim.
    Proverbs 10:7 King James Version (KJV)
    7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
    Proverbs 22:1 King James Version (KJV)
    22 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
    IsaiYah 42
    8 I am YahUah: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images...
    Further:
    23rd psalms YahUah sent his namesake
    Acts 2:36 ESV
    Let all the house of Yasherael therefore know for certain that Alahainu has made him both King and MessiYah, this Yahuashua whom you crucified
    IsaiYah 48:9
    YahUah Alahainu said;
    “For my namesake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.”
    Psalms 25:11 - For thy name's sake, O YahUah, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great
    Psalms 79:9 - Help us, O Alahainu of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake
    name·​sake | \ ˈnām-ˌsāk \
    Definition of namesake
    : one that has the same name as another especially : one who is named after another or for whom another is named. His grandson and namesake is the spit and image of him …
    Yahucannon (john) 5:43 (PNV)
    Yahuashua Ya'meshiyah said:
    I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
    Hmmm? That's interesting Jesus comes in his own name, yet Yahuashua comes in YahUah's name....go calculate!???
    2 Corinthians Proper Name Version (KJV)
    3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in MessiYah.
    4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Yahuashua, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
    1 John 2:22-25 King James Version (KJV)
    22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Yahushua is Ya'meshiyah? He is anti-messiyah, that denieth the Father, YahUah and the Son Yahuashua
    Yahuel (Joel)2:32 (PNV)
    32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of YahUah shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Yarushalem shall be deliverance, as YahUah hath said, and in the remnant whom YahUah shall call.
    Further;
    Revelation 17:8 King James Version (KJV)
    8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
    Revelation 13:18, ESV:
    "This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666." ... Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
    Greek 666
    600 = Ie - pronounced Hey
    60 = sou - Zu
    6 = S
    Iesous pronounced Heysus, of which the name Jesus stems. Please give me your analysis.
    1524
    How did J get its sound? Both I and J were used interchangeably by scribes to express the sound of both the vowel and the consonant. It wasn't until 1524 when Gian Giorgio Trissino, an Italian Renaissance grammarian known as the father of the letter J, made a clear distinction between the two sounds.
    SEE video in Spanish inquisition ⬇
    ua-cam.com/video/rWrbCDkAd3c/v-deo.html. .
    Yah shalom, know you are loved meshpaca.

  • @spocksvulcanbrain
    @spocksvulcanbrain 4 роки тому +6

    Well that was honest, but useless. So what is the evangelical community going to do about it?
    Nothing as usual. All talk. It's the same religious beliefs .. "if you ain't us, you're horrible, bad, going to hell, etc...". Until the religious get over that mindset, nothing will change.

    • @spocksvulcanbrain
      @spocksvulcanbrain 4 роки тому

      @Steve There we go. More threats by so Christians who profess love and compassion. You make my case for me. There is nothing "Christian" about threatening others with eternal torture in Hell.
      Perhaps you should reevaluate your own teachings. Better yet, realize religious belief has no basis in facts and is just belief in myth. Perhaps a secular moral view would compel you to be kind to others as it's obvious your religious morality fails you there.

    • @spocksvulcanbrain
      @spocksvulcanbrain 4 роки тому

      @Steve Again my point exactly. Your God is a thug and its followers no better. A God which is supposed to be benevolent,who would torture people for eternity for finite crimes or minor "sins" is not benevolent. Perhaps you should read the damn book and pay attention to the massive amount of killing for no good reason he orders. The Bible is nothing but a "How To" genocide manual. Anybody who professes to follow its teachings is a gulible, amoral, unethical and uncaring deciple of a monster. Why on Earth should anyone follow such a creature let along worship it?
      Besides all that, it just ain't true. It's all lies and myth. I prefer the real world.
      Besides that, Hell us NOT mentioned throughout the book. It was invented by the church later on. The old testament for example never mentions the place at all. That's why the Jews don't believe in Jesus or Hell. You obviously don't know know your own book.

    • @spocksvulcanbrain
      @spocksvulcanbrain 4 роки тому

      @Steve Arguing with you is pointless. You are unwilling or unable to be honest about your book. You have insufficient evidence for your god, and personal experiences are not good enough. Those are just your opinions. If opinions are not good enough on my part to be accepted, then they're not good enough on yours. So further discussions with you are a waste of my time.

  • @beverlycarter2873
    @beverlycarter2873 3 роки тому +1

    Martin Luther king said the same thing

  • @tommieharris7308
    @tommieharris7308 3 роки тому

    Godsend; so was Saul

  • @zenabeardsmore2747
    @zenabeardsmore2747 3 роки тому +2

    It is all about the money. Selfish ego maniacs. They think they are above God’s word.

  • @maeothagardner8058
    @maeothagardner8058 3 роки тому +2

    They are living a lie

  • @Thelivingwordthesword
    @Thelivingwordthesword 3 роки тому +1

    Its not just evangelicals in all religions you will them its one of the easiest traps to fall into once in the trap you wasting your time trying to be with God

  • @augurcybernaut4785
    @augurcybernaut4785 2 роки тому

    Overcome by fear….!?
    How about-- it doesn’t matter how we treat others. As pol pot said killing does no harm to me and helping you does no help to me.

  • @ga1actic_muffin
    @ga1actic_muffin 3 роки тому +1

    Wait.. but Trump's message is about only fear of others who aren't like you..

  • @pagielicious
    @pagielicious 4 роки тому +6

    Thank you for being honest sir. I know of an evangelical pastor who will not baptize a black person. Boy will he be surprised if he makes it to heaven!!!😱😱

    • @kenlucas7025
      @kenlucas7025 3 роки тому

      I'm curious. Why does he refuse to baptize black people?

    • @emmanuelcharlesbonney6963
      @emmanuelcharlesbonney6963 3 роки тому

      And he would find out shortly that Christ is black. What would he do?

    • @emmanuelcharlesbonney6963
      @emmanuelcharlesbonney6963 3 роки тому

      @@kenlucas7025 same old racist hate. What else?

    • @CarpsterKing
      @CarpsterKing 3 роки тому

      The Book of Deuteronomy 28:15-68 predicted that GOD will curse the Israelite for their disobedience against HIS commandments and the wrath against the Israelite has been going on for the past 2500 years and only
      the Blacks fitted into this description ....enslavement by the Europeans and US ...the 12 tribes of Israel
      were scattered all around the World and they were being subjected to trial and tribulations and the time will come and they will all be gathered together to return to their homeland ( Jerusalem ) GOD has promised them when they have repented and follow GOD's commandments again....has the present day Jews and their ancestors in Israel being subjected to slavery before ???? NO....
      Period.....

  • @toxophilite6804
    @toxophilite6804 4 роки тому +5

    There is only one race, and that's the human race.
    Satan was the first racist when he rebelled against God. Read, ISAIAH 14: 12-15.

    • @toxophilite6804
      @toxophilite6804 4 роки тому +3

      @Jan Pearson
      Thank you for your response on this great subject.
      Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. They were according to Jewish tridition of the tribe of Cush. All Custites are Ethiopian. Noah's grandson King Nimrod who built the Tower of Babbel was the son of Ham, was Cush.
      Only in the movies are these people caucasian.
      In NUMDERS 12:1 read where Moses marries an Ethiopian woman.
      In the Song of Solomon 1:5, I am black but comely O daughters of Jerusalem.
      In 1508 the Pope paid Michael Angelo to paint the Sistene Chapel using Caucasian models only, they painted Christianity in white face.
      Charles Darrwin admitted mankind came out of Africa, not England. That why I say there is only one race. God Bless+

    • @bensisko7154
      @bensisko7154 4 роки тому +2

      @Jan Pearson Don't you dare blame God for Racism!! Man is the problem, not God!!

    • @larrymurray3557
      @larrymurray3557 4 роки тому +1

      White Evangelicals are always cleaning up their complicity with the rest of the ancient hatred of TRUE Isreal with scripture. You are still very racist. I haven't met many, not even a few who weren't.

  • @Mister_Pedantic
    @Mister_Pedantic 3 роки тому

    Would anyone like to discuss how Genesis 9:18-27 was used in the past by American Christians to justify racism?

  • @catherinemckinney4091
    @catherinemckinney4091 3 роки тому +1

    Many who call themselves evangelicals; I will go as far as call themselves Christians are deluded. You can plainly see their own beliefs are put before God's. And, that is the reason why when they say Lord Lord, he is going to say I never knew you.

  • @douglasmorales3789
    @douglasmorales3789 4 роки тому

    I hear this phrase on Christian radio: God and country. I say God despite country. If are One in Christ, then we should not see race. We should not be worried of immigrants. Aren’t we all sojourners? We are just passing through and heaven is our home. So why do we sow discord among the brethren. If you’re worried about the wrong kind of immigrants coming to America, perhaps money is your God. Greed and capitalism prevail in your heart and not Gods love. It’s only when we compare ourselves to the Plumb line, Christ, that we know we are crooked. We live in a fallen world.

  • @DM-dm9pr
    @DM-dm9pr 2 роки тому +2

    Funny!!! How can they when they worship blonde haired, blue eyed, white Jesus from Kansas....thought he was from Nazareth???? 🤣👏🏽🤣👏🏽🤣👏🏽🤣

  • @toddmiller7876
    @toddmiller7876 4 роки тому +1

    Intelligence, maybe the asians, and the blacks need to take a good look around them. But maybe they know Jesus was a black man, already.

  • @lelz4792
    @lelz4792 3 роки тому +2

    It's not a SKIN problem, it's a SIN problem. The number one killer is HATE. Praise God and love everyone. Be careful at how the WORLD/SOCIETY presents LOVE though. Don't be deceived. Love is not accepting no matter what, if someone loves you , they will let you know when they are wrong out of love, not for their own pleasure or benefit.

  • @cousinrob5853
    @cousinrob5853 3 роки тому +1

    At the end of the day, we ALL are made in God’s image. Denominationalism has stolen the true body of Christ and Family of God away...if we don’t do it this way we are wrong...if we don’t agree, we are sinners and not of God...it’s all about relationship with God. He thinks of the least before the mightiest...he loves those that “church folk” turn away from. It’s all about being like Jesus...that’s whose church I belong to.