Lisa Sharon Harper’s simple delineation of terms helpful, as she distinguished race, ethnicity, culture, and nationality from a biblical perspective: Race, ethnicity, culture, and nationality often are used as interchangeable words, but each one has a different shade of meaning…. Ethnicity is biblical (Hebrew: goy or am; Greek: ethnos). Ethnicity is created by God as people groups move together through space and time…. Culture is implicit in Scripture, but the word itself is never used. Culture is a sociological and anthropological term that refers to the beliefs, norms, rituals, arts, and
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