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The "Christian" Identity Church has incorrectly been called Christian Fundamentalism. This "theology" is not Christian Fundamentalism which embraces the basic tenets of the Christian faith. This "church" takes the Word of God and distorts it in order for them to preach a gospel of racial hatred primarily directed at Jews and Afro-Americans. My purpose with this article is to warn Christians not to even associate with this group. This is best done by a white gentile Christian as myself.
What Christian Identity Believes
A False Gospel of Wesley Swift (1) - Christian Identity
The "Doctrinal Statement" of Race Hatred
The "Christian" Identity movement is an off-shoot of an erroneous teaching propagated in the 19th century
by British race patriots who believed that Anglo-Saxons are direct descendants of the 10 lost tribes of Israel.
This is interesting since God never lost 10 tribes of Israel. He knows exactly who and where they are. There are
Tribes of Israel that are not counted in the Book of Revelation, the Tribes of Dan and Ephraim (Rev 7)
However, that exclusion has nothing to do with this erroneous teaching.
This teaching was taught by illustrious personages such as John Ruskin and others
and laid a philosophical justification for the expansion of the British Empire.
Some of the
more sordid practices used in expanding the British Empire included drug dealing in opium, trading in slaves and selling of armaments
by the British East India Company and enforced by the British Navy.
The original intention of the teaching on the "10 Lost Tribes" was race-based. Not all who teach this error are racists. The teaching found it's way to the USA and is the lynchpin of the theology of the christian identity group.
The "Theology" of the "Christian" Identity Movement Genesis 9:21-25 clearly teaches that both Ham and his son, Canaan, sinned. However, the patriarch, Noah, curses Canaan, not Ham. The descendants of Ham have included some of the mightiest empires in the ancient world including Egypt and Ethiopia.
The descendants of Canaan were judged under this curse when the children of Israel were sent into the promised Land and ordered by God Almighty to put the
inhabitants to the sword. This judgment of God was based upon the immoral and idolatrous practices of the people of Canaan at that time. (Deut 7:2) The next misused scripture by identity teachers is: John 8:42-44 "Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it." This scripture, they claim, is proof that Jesus Himself told the Jews that they were the offspring of Satan.
The obvious answer when read in context is that in John 8, Jesus is being rejected by the leaders of the Jews, the Pharisees and Sadducees,
as the Messiah, who would be called the Son of David (Matt 22:45) Genesis 3:1-15 "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." The seed of the serpent was a reference to the one who will follow after Jesus, proclaiming himself to be God (Dan 7:2-25).
The Genesis scripture could in no way refer to the Jewish people since evil offspring were destroyed in the flood of Noah's day. Abraham was the progenitor of the Jews through whom God gave the child of promise, Isaac. To Isaac was born Jacob,
later called Israel, from whom all Jews derive their identity.
These are the Scriptures they misuse, their statements from these Scriptures and my responses to each one.Genesis 9:21-25 "And (Noah) he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren."The identity teachers state that this scripture clearly teaches that the descendants of Ham, which include all Afro-Americans and black nations,
are cursed by the Patriarch and are consigned to be servants (or slaves) to the others. The teachings generally proceed on with perjoratives referencing
"mud races" etc.
Identity teachers claim that this is the origin of the Jews, the seed of the serpent.
Rom 11:17-28
"And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then,
"Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either."
Galatians 3:28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
Revelation 7:9 "After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
Those who put Jesus to death 2000 years ago were all of us with our sins! Though He was killed, He lives today and offers us His salvation.
1Co 5:7 "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
Passover is sacrificed for us:"
Jesus freely offered Himself as our Blood atonement for the forgiveness of our sins and for our salvation. He says clearly:
"Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." KJV
I beseech each of you to come out from this movement that preaches hatred and death into the eternal life offered to us by our Lord Jesus Christ. Please repent of your hatred and turn to the Author of Life, Jesus Christ.
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