The Bible and Equality
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us?
Malachi 2:10
If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you're from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended. But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up.... God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind.
Romans 2:9-11 (The Message translation)
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galations 3:28 (The Message)
There are lots of specific teachings about equality and race, gender and disability. However, they are all based around the idea that God created all people equal, and his loving act of salvation was for all of humanity..
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27
