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Fred G. Zaspel reveals B. B. Warfield’s “outspokenly condemned” stance against “the racism and rigid segregation of American society of his day.” Warfield’s views were “remarkably ahead of his time,” grounded in “the unity of the human race created in Adam in God’s image, and…the unifying effects of the gospel of Christ.” He insisted “God has made of one blood all the nations of the earth.”
Warfield described America’s racial structure as a “wicked caste” society, a “false and perverted system” that would “develop into full-fledged race-antagonism.” He declared, “in Christ Jesus there cannot be Greek and Jew…barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman,” seeing racial pride as “a denial of the gospel.” Warfield called for Christians to help blacks “rise to their full potential in society” and “practiced what he preached,” advocating for integration, not a “permanently segregated America.”