My wife recently bought me a book by Ken Ham about race. A small section of the book was about a man called “OTA”. Ota Benga was born in 1881 in Central Africa as a member of the Mbuti people group, where he grew strong and keen the ways of the wilderness. He had a wife and two children. He came home from a successful elephant hunt to find his entire village had ceased to exist. His wife, children and friends were all slaughtered, their bodies mutilated by the Belgian government’s thugs against “the evolutionary inferior natives.” Ota was later taken to a village and sold into slavery.
He was first brought to the United States by a man who had bought him in auction. He was part of an exhibition as an “emblematic savage” in the 1904 World’s Fair in St Louis. He was 4’11” 103 lbs and was kept in a cage for people to view. He just wanted to go home and be with his people.
In Genesis 11 the Bible talks about the tower of Babel. Everyone was gathering in one place. They were working on a tower and ignoring God’s commands.
In Genesis 1:28 we are told to go fourth be fruitful and multiply. We are told to take dominion over the earth. We know what happened. God confused their language and they scattered all over the earth. That was just as he originally told us.
In Genesis 6 Noah was commanded to build the arc and fill it with animals. Most people know the story.
If evolution is true, then there is nothing wrong with what happened to Ota. He was an inferior race and doomed to extinction. We are all sons and daughters of apes and cosmic accidents.
If the Bible is true then Ota is a direct decedent of Noah, just as you are. Jesus died for the sins of Ota and your sins. (Romans 3:23) God makes distinctions between people generally by where they are from, or their culture. (IE: Romans, Canaanites, tribe of Benjamin) We are all sons and daughters of Noah, and Adam, who was created by God. Skin color, size, or language are attributes of ONE Thing: The Human Race. Humans come in all shapes, sizes, colors, etc.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
That word “any” includes us and it included Ota. I pray that he accepted Jesus during his lifetime. Everyone is precious to God.
We are to love God with all our heart mind and soul. We are to love our neighbor as ourselves.
What are you going to do about it?
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