Abstract
This article considers a missiological perspective that emphasizes God’s creation of and joy in human diversity. Beginning with a concrete experience of personal challenge, four questions are explored: (1) Did diversity of human biology and racial phenotype come as a result of God’s original (before sin) creation design? If not then; (2) Is uniformity of race and biological phenotype the best understanding of God’s original (before sin) creation design? (3) Shall we read the Genesis 1:28; 9:1 “cultural mandate” to fill and subdue the earth as instructions to spread and ethnically/racially diversify across the face of the earth? And, finally, (4) How shall we read the diversity of languages in Genesis 11:1–9 brought up by God: as a curse from God to punish Babel’s pride, or as a remedy from God against Babel’s attempt at uniformity?
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