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Gender, sexual orientation, family,
race, culture, or religion—every
aspect of a person’s identity is
to be questioned; every norm or
standard in society be challenged
and ideally altered in order to benefit
supposedly oppressed groups. . . .
Cultural Marxism is such a conflict
as existing between the oppressed
and the oppressors, between
those with privilege and those
without. . . . Majority groups are
typically defined as privileged and
oppressive with minority groups
accordingly labeled underprivileged
and oppressed. Heterosexuals are
oppressive. Cisgender 11 people are
oppressive. Whites are oppressive,
especially white men. Christians
are oppressive. Those that do
not fit into these groups are thus
considered oppressed. If whites
are oppressors, the solution is
racial diversity. If Cisgender people
are oppressors, the solution is to
encourage transgenderism. 12
Calvinist author and pastor David Platt,
who was president of the SBC International
Mission Board for four years until 2018, was
quoted on the documentary as well, showing
his affinity with CRT. In live footage on the
documentary, Platt says that basically the
evangelical church is propagating racism
rather than helping to diminish it. The nar-
rator of the film refutes Platt’s statements:
Platt’s sermon is not based in
biblical truth but in the ideology
of Critical Race Theory of cultural
Marxism. His basic presupposition
is that white Christians are not
only immersed in racism but are
actually increasing the racial divide.
He exhorts churches to repent of
racism and to set up multi-ethnic
communities in order to achieve
racial reconciliation, but Scripture
VOLUME 8—NO. 1
teaches otherwise. All true believers
are one in Christ, so there is no
racial divide in the true Church
of God—for black Christians and
white Christians are one in Christ;
they are reconciled in Christ. 13
The documentary draws to a conclusion
with a statement by Pastor Voddie Baucham
about true and legitimate racial reconciliation
from a sermon he gave from Ephesians 2:
[The apostle Paul] starts off talking
about what the Gentiles didn’t have,
and we end up talking about what
Jews and Gentiles now have because
of the Cross. Built on the foundation
of the apostles and prophets, Christ
Jesus Himself, being the cornerstone
in whom the whole structure being
joined together grows into a holy
temple in the Lord. In him you
also are being built together into a
dwelling place for God by the spirit.
That’s racial reconciliation, and it’s
not something you and I have to
achieve. It’s something you and I have
to believe because Christ has already
achieved it. It is done. It is real. We
are one in Christ. You need to be
reminded of your union; you need
to strengthen your union . . . same
thing with racial reconciliation—we
are reconciled in Christ; we don’t
need to achieve racial reconciliation,
we just need to walk in the racial
reconciliation that Christ achieved
at the Cross. It’s ours. It’s real, and I
don’t need sociology books in order
to walk in this reconciliation. I need
God’s book in order to walk in this
reconciliation. 14
Countless men, women, and children,
throughout the history of man, have been
hurt and ostracized, sexually and physically
abused, and even murdered by those who
have hated and had evil and murder in their
hearts. The world’s answer today for this
is: socialism, social justice, changing views
on gender and sexuality, New Age thought,
radical feminism, and now cultural Marx-
ism through CRT.
But these are not the “answers” the
church should embrace. These ideologies are
powerless substitutes for the only viable and
true solution—and that is the Cross. And
any group that claims to represent that Cross
(e.g., SBC) should have nothing to do with
the world’s solutions that will never work but
rather should be proclaiming the Gospel to
an unsaved, lost, and hurting world.
Baucham
Those who embrace Critical Race Theory
(which broadens the terms racist and white
supremacist to include virtually all white peo-
ple) believe CRT is going to help end racial
tensions and create a more loving world. On
the contrary, it is going to cause animosity,
suspicion, anger, and all the things that are
the opposite of God’s love that is described
in 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter).
Let us remember this too: Man’s adver-
sary, Satan, does not care about anyone of
any race, color, gender, or culture. He only
uses people to propagate and accomplish
his horribly wicked evil plans. And his ulti-
mate goal is to keep people from Christ and
His salvation. As utterly horrible as abuse,
bigotry, rape, hate, and murder are, there
is something even worse, and that is to be
eternally lost without Christ.
Promoters of Resolution 9 say there is a
“massive” racism problem within SBC. If
that is truly the case, then SBC should take
Abraham Hamilton and Voddie Baucham’s
advice and realize this is not a corporate sin
(that would be saying every white SBC pastor
and leader is a racist); rather, the problem
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