by Pastor Mark Downey
Revised July 2013
Scripture Reading: Deuteronomy 31:10-13
I'm a baby-boomer and growing up in the 1950's, when you could walk
down the street in relative safety, I remember my mom saying, "Don't
talk to strangers." Even 50 years ago, America was changing for the
worse. Christianity was on the verge of a major downswing towards a
hyphenated judaization and multicultural diversity. Back then, the
proverbial stranger was a hitchhiker with his thumb up for a ride or
someone you didn't know offering candy to children. The innocence of
such things soon changed, because of a few gruesome crimes, which later
became quite common. In fact, the dark side of strangers has become
serial, as in killers and pedophiles. Trust is no longer taken for
granted. Talking to strangers today can be deathly. And so we have to
ask if the Bible prohibits our people from conversing with the
strangers of forced integration. Actually, it’s more than just mere
conversation; it is the mindset of modern social interaction.
I choose Deuteronomy for our Scripture reading today, because most
people would not be able to tell you who the stranger is in verse 12.
Christian Identity seems to be the only form of Christianity that has
an understanding of three different words for stranger that are found
in the Bible. If these strangers are not biblically identified, our
kith and kin could be facing serious trespasses and doing just the
opposite of what God commands. To the universalist or those who think
God's salvation includes all races, rightly dividing the word stranger
means little or nothing to them. They go about their merry race
mixing ways in disobedience to God's Law. In fact, they go on the
offensive to instill White guilt for the so called sin of racism.
However, this ‘Answers in Genesis’ “sin” is not from the Bible, but from
Baal worship.
The biblical perspective of what constitutes a stranger can be
either someone of our own race or someone of another race. This is
made evident by the scriptural record itself.