Racial Prejudice
In my opinion one of the worst sins we can commit is the sin of being racially prejudiced. The reason I believe it is such a terrible sin is that it goes against one of the fundamental realities. It is very clear from the Bible in the book of Genesis that all people are made in the image of God. We are all equal in His sight, and we should be equal in our sight. When we show racial prejudice, we are really rejecting God's wisdom in His creation. The Israelites were prejudice against other groups of people. They felt like they would be unclean if they had relations with them. The truth was that the Israelites were just as sinful or even more sinful than other peoples, especially in the times of the judges. (Judges 19:12) A Levite would not stop in Jebus, a foreign town where there were no Israelites, but insisted on going on to Gibeah for the night because of his prejudice. Then, in Gibeah the people of the town committed a horrible sin against his concubine. We can learn a lot from...