The Tulip Driven Life

Voddie Baucham uses the word "ethnic" in seemingly the same way that many Christians, including Reformed Pastors and Theologians, have used the term "race" or "races" historically, and even recently. We can consider Geerhardus' Vos's well known Biblical Theology, in which he states, "Under the providence of God each race or nation has a positive purpose to serve, fulfillment of which depends on relative seclusion from others." This is quoted by present day White RPCNA Minister Dr. Frank Smith, who said in his recent book Race, Church, and Society, " Social and cultural distinctions still remain—they are not eliminated. The oneness celebrated in Galatians 3:28—a unity focused on our salvation and our right standing before God—does not eradicate our natural connections. We are not disembodied spirits—we still consist of a psychosomatic unit (soul and body), which means that we still carry those ethnic (racial) traits with which we wer...

 "For from the beginning it was the will of God that, as soon as more families arose, the man would leave his father and mother and would choose a wife as his helpmeet not from within but from outside the parental family, from another family. The wonderful expansion of the human race, the infinite variety among people, and the inexhaustible richness of relationships between households and families, generations and peoples, are all due to this divine will. Every marriage blends various psychological gifts and distinct physical strengths, becoming thereby a new source of a particular fullness of life....After the flood the descendants of Noah, who at that point still constituted one people and were still bound together by one language and by the same vocabulary, settled in the land of Shinar, which lay in southern Babylonia. But then later, as punishment for building the tower, their language was confused, and the small human race was split up into groups, tribes, or nations and dis...