First Word Takes Apart Ken Ham’s One Blood Thesis
It is refreshing to find theological subtlety being put to good use. The good folks at First Word have the last word on Ken Ham’s anti-covenantal and naturalistic view of race. In essence, Ham’s presuppositional commitment to the invalidation of race forces him to hypothesize a mulatto Adam and Eve, and other nonsense about creational intent being other than what it appears to be. History as accident, is how we’ve characterized it in the past. While the folks at First Word might not wish the association, Kinism has been dealing with race covenantally from the outset. Our view is simple: God didn’t make a mistake when he made men into extended families that conform to a type, and made them productive according to kind (rather than randomly). Kinism has from its beginning asserted that type is a teleological feature of creation. Still it is welcome to see the Kinist doctrine of nations (which is at the same time the biblical doctrine of nations) framed more systematically and placed within the context of the possible modalities of creation intent. It is logically air-tight, in our view, and they are to be congratulated, even as we continue to look for attribution from someone, anyone.
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