Office of Diversity

cq9武圣选马还是刀将多样性定义为不同种族组成的人群, cultural background, age, language, educational and professional experience, veteran and socioeconomic status. Our commitment to diversity is biblically informed; therefore, 大学参与并支持与圣经定义的多样性相关的事情.

Genesis 1:27 “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Because all people are made in God’s divine image, they possess full dignity and are worthy of respect.

Matthew 22:39 “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.耶稣吩咐我们爱别人如同爱自己，这一命令适用于所有人.

Revelation 7:9 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb . . .”

当个人或群体(根据大学对多样性的定义)被接纳为机构的正式成员时，包容性就存在了.

John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 因为神差他儿子到世上来，不是要审判世界, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

Galatians 3:28 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

公平是对他人公平或不偏不倚的过程.

James 2:2-7 若有人戴着金戒指、穿着华美衣服、进你们的会众, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes, 你们要特别注意那穿华美衣服的人, and say, ‘You sit here in a good place,’ and you say to the poor man, ‘You stand over there, or sit down by my footstool,’ have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil motives? Listen, 我亲爱的弟兄们、神岂不是拣选了世上的穷人、叫他们在信上富足、并承受他所应许给爱他之人的国么? But you have dishonored the poor man. 那富足人岂不是欺压你们，亲自拉你们到公堂吗? 他们不是亵渎了你所称呼的美名吗?”

多元文化主义承认，除了自己的文化之外，社会中还存在许多文化. Furthermore, 信徒对这些多元文化的理解和欣赏应遵循以下原则:

• 不同的文化显示了上帝的创造力和作为主权，造物主上帝的角色. 1; Neh. 9:6; Col. 1:16; Rev. 4:11).
• 最后，永恒的状态(天堂)将包括来自不同文化的不同的人. 7:9).
• 信徒应该尊重不同的文化，以促进福音的发展. 9:19-23, 10:23-33).
• 基督教在某些真理方面具有明确的排他性(出埃及记). 20:2-3; John 14:6, 3:36; 1 Tim. 2:5). Thus, believers cannot regard every philosophical, 来自不同文化的宗教或伦理观念认为平等是正确的或有效的. Christians are not moral relativists.
• 基督徒不能肯定一种被圣经视为有罪的文化习俗. 1:18-32; Eph. 4:17-24; 1 Thess. 4:1-8).