The inhumanity of humans to other humans cuts away not only at civilization but at the core of being human. Psalm 8 begins and ends with the glory of God, but in between is the glory with which God has crowned humans. We have the stamp of God on the very essence of our being. To mistreat another human attacks God and tends to undermine our own dignity, along with our spiritual formation. Something very evil, anti-God, and anti-human is at the core of racism with its bigotry. Blaming other races for whatever we want to pin on them can sit well politically but is never Christian. We cannot practice such things without demeaning ourselves, undermining civilization and blaspheming the Creator’s choice to make us like Himself. The glory of human is derived from the glory of God.
“O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! Your glory is higher than the heavens… When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers— the moon and the stars you set in place— what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor…O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth! (Psalm 8:1, 3-5, 9 NLT).
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