Throughout this book we will primarily focus on what the Scriptures say or imply regarding race and our attitude towards racial differences. However, in this section it is necessary to cover what the Bible doesn’t say: that is, it is necessary to correct one of the most serious and most damaging misinterpretations of Scripture on this subject. Indeed, as early as 1808, David Burrow, writing against slavery, bemoans, ‘I am persuaded that no passage in