>>509778271i think races (ethnoi, nations) are a real category in scripture.
whites would be synonymous with japhethites.
the verse typically used to downplay the ontological reality of these categories i think actually demonstrates they're real and meaningful.
>There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28)to say there's no jew or gentile outside of the context of soteriology being spoken of here is to say male and female aren't real distinctives either, which we know is false, as other epistles of paul's gives different roles to men and women.
Revelation 7:9 depict the redeemed as being from "every nation tribe people and tongue," not a homogenous mass but a differentiated unity.
Acts 17:26 affirms that God "made from one man every ethnos of mankind to dwell on the earth" meaning ethnic diversity is part of the created order.
if ethnic distinctions are real and creational, (not just cultural constructs) then the attempt to erase ethnic identity (as in liberal cosmopolitanism) is a rebellion against God's ordering of nations (Deuteronomy 32:8, Acts 17:26)
the great commission involves discipling ethnoi, not erasing them.