We live in times where racial tensions have been pushed to the front page. One group heralds its ethnic heritage superior to all other’s, while another posts that it is thier lives that really matter. In an era of heightened connectivity it feels we are increasingly divided. Yet with all the devisive headlines and platformed cultural differences, when one looks closer, we find that conflicts cast as ethnic wars are actually more akin to family fueds.

First, all mankinds roots stem from the same earthly seed planted in the same original garden. Adam and Eve stand as all humankind’s distant yet shared earthly parents. Second, all human life is knitted in the womb by the same Heavenly Father. While we must be born again to become redeemed sons and daughters of Christ, all life ultimately originates from the same Father.

In the war of words, Christ followers must not get lost in the press, as heaven’s editorial doesn’t follow the world’s script. We must run our views through a Biblical lense, which in this case, reminds us that with all our differences mankind has a lot in common. Who knows, if we do this, a bit more civility just might return. After all, when conflict arises, we aren’t at war with foreign strangers but in a fued with family.

Genesis 1:27 “So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

Genesis 2:7-8 “Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and the man became a living person.Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.”

Psalm 139:13 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.”

- Micah McElveen