The Value of All People

I think it's appropriate to start off saying that literally ALL people are created equal. Knowing this fact alone makes issues such as racism and gender inequality seem completely nonsense.

Genesis 1:27 says, 
"So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." 
If we are all created in the very image of God, then shouldn't we treat each other that way. This doesn't, then, give us reason to exalt ourselves and say that since we are created in the image of God then we must be god-like ourselves. Because there is only one God and he is the one who created US.

James 3:9-12 says, 
"With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water."

 Everything God created, and that includes humans, was created to give him glory, and thus if we discriminate and treat any one human being as being less than ourselves then we are dishonoring the God that created them.

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