Donna Danna (15 Aug 2021)
"Lutheran Pastor Says The Great Commission (Matt. 28:16-20) Is The Source of Systemic Racism"


The words of Jesus' Great Commission is found in Matt. 28:16-20, & this pastor thinks it must have been added much later to the gospel to bring it in line with the Nicene Creed which was drawn up in 325 AD, and she doesn't think that Jesus ever said the words in Matt. 28:16-20. According to her, Jesus' words in the Great Commission whether you believe them or not became the justification for the Doctrine of Discovery.

However, just because Pope Alexander VI in 1493 AD issued a papal bull called the Doctrine of Discovery that gave white European Christians authority to colonize, conquer, seize land & convert the people to Catholicism that were living in the non-Christian islands & countries in the Americas which Columbus had discovered, & non-white people living there ended up being killed in Jesus' name by the white Catholic colonizers is not Jesus' fault. 

Below is the Doctrine of Discovery issued in 1493 by Pope Alexander VI:

All the Doctrine of Discovery Papal Bulls are listed here:

This pastor doesn't say that Jesus was a racist.  However, if Jesus was a racist, He wouldn't have wanted His disciples to go and teach all the nations while baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus would have been a racist if He only wanted the white race or the black race or just one race on planet Earth to be saved, or just the Jews and not the Gentiles to be saved.  Jesus wanted all men to be saved according to 1 Timothy 2:3-6, "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."

I don't think that Jesus' Great Commission is the source of systemic racism or racial prejudice nor do I think that  Pope Alexander VI Papal Bull called the Doctrine of Discovery was intended to cause racial prejudice.  The real source of racial prejudice would be Satan who likes to divide people up in hatred toward one as we see in our society today with the Black Lives Matter movement, & the Critical Race Theory with the idea of white supremacy.

Also in my opinion, it would be another gospel without Matthew 28:16-20 because no where else in the Bible does Jesus tell His Disciples to go to all the nations to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  There are other verses in the gospels of Matthew, Mark & Luke in which Jesus tells His disciples that the gospel will be preached in all nations, but there is no other verse in the gospel which tells them to baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit. This Lutheran pastor must have disregarded the following Bible verses below. And how would Jesus' disciples know to go to the people in all nations to preach to them the gospel & to baptize them unless Jesus really did say the words in Matthew 28:16-20 which are Jesus' Great Commission.

Below are the other verses about the gospel being preached to all nations:

Matthew 24:14, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

Mark 13:10, "And the gospel must first be published among all nations."

Luke 24:47, "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."

Here is Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20, "Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.  And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

What does the Bible say about preaching "another gospel" which the gospel of Matthew might be without Jesus' words of the Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20?   Galatians 1:6-9, "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."