The truth is, human beings were created as one race—in the image of God. For some reason or another, though, we have doubted that central truth. We have allowed ourselves to believe we are divided by deep and irreconcilable differences, but that is not the truth of the gospel. When Jesus came and died on the cross to reconcile the world to Himself, He, through His blood, brought peace into this world (see Col. 1:20). But we have not allowed this peace to take root or these broken-down walls to be realized. Instead, we have tried to come up with human solutions and means of reconciliation.
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