Should White Christians Wash Black People's Feet to Atone for Racism?

American Thinker.com ^ | June 28, 2020 | James Arlandson

[Kaslin]

So many commentators don't understand the biblical background to the act of kneeling and washing feet. (Biblical ignorance is such a bad influence in our society.) And of course the religious left takes Scripture out of context. As the old saying goes, a text without a context can become a pretext.

First, a little recent historical background.

Back in the 1970s, during the Jesus Movement — the right kind of cultural revolution, not the one today led by neo-Marxists and their destruction, a false and evil movement — we did some wonderful things. At home Bible studies, which sprang up everywhere, we occasionally did some foot-washing "ceremonies." We got a basin of water and a cloth and knelt down and washed each other's feet, or at least the feet of the person sitting next to us.

Where did we get the scriptural support for our childlike and sweet and well intentioned activity? From here:

Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him. (John 13:3–4, NIV)

That passage was written regarding the Last Supper, which gets an extended treatment in John's Gospel. The whole scene is personal and expresses humility — the right kind. The leader (Jesus) voluntarily, to set an example, kneels and washes the feet of his disciples, even those of Judas, who left shortly afterward and betrayed him. The entire context shows that there was no coercion or guilt-tripping.

[mdmathis6]

Eziekiel 18 says you can’t demand atonement for something one has never done. God does not lay the guilt of the Father’s sins upon the soul of the children. Neither should black Christians demand “payment” for sins whites have done when many of those black Christians have been forgiven by God for those same sins that whites may have done. The parable of the debtor explains what happened to the debtor when he demanded payments for debts owed to him when his own many debts had been forgiven by the Master.

[Kaslin]

You ate a chicken at Zaxby? They have the worst chicken in my honest opinion.

[Bullish]

Should White Christians Wash Black People's Feet

Maybe if the white man's job is to prep them in the mortuary. That's about it.

[mad_as_he$$]

Ever see a black mortician? I haven’t.

[lurk]

If you’re not racist, you’re against the slaughter of black babies, you have always been against slavery and you just want to live in peace, no, foot washing is a farce.

[servantboy777]

I apologize for NOTHING! I am a proud white Southern Christian Texas man.

[a little elbow grease]

Should White Christians Wash Black People's Feet?

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..... maybe her feet.

;-)

[AndyTheBear]

Its a cheap form of fake virtue to ask forgiveness on behalf of what others have done.

And it is bigoted and evil to condition people to be apologetic for being of a certain race.

[Impy]

Washing armpits would be more productive.