The NXR Podcast - October 04, 2026


The Spiritual Component Of Race

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Adam Japheth Paul Noah James L. Meager Megalopsychia Abraham Canaan Shem
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13 minutes

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78

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00:00:00.000 Where does race come from? What are the origins of the races? Is race merely biological and
00:00:07.000 physical, or is there perhaps a spiritual component to race as well? Which begs the
00:00:12.700 question, where does the soul come from? Is the soul created by God ex nihilo, out of nothing,
00:00:17.740 or does the soul of a man pass down from his parents, our souls inherited? That's what we'll
00:00:25.020 be discovering in today's segment. You're listening to part two of a seven-part comprehensive series
00:00:32.080 on the subject of race from both a biblical and biological perspective. And all seven parts of
00:00:39.640 this seven-part series come from the prolegomena for my latest book titled White Genocide. If you
00:00:46.840 like to listen to the full audio version of White Genocide, you can find it exclusively at the NXR
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00:01:01.400 Traducianism. It follows naturally to ask, where does the spiritual nature of man originate?
00:01:09.760 While the answer is obviously from something spiritual, the source of that soul is deceptively
00:01:15.920 complex. The question is whether the soul comes directly from God and is created ex nihilo,
00:01:22.280 from nothing at the moment of conception or whether it comes from the parents in the act
00:01:28.700 of procreation as a continuation of their souls theologians have wrestled with the implications
00:01:35.840 of each view the first dubbed creationism the soul is created by god anew for each new human life
00:01:43.500 and the second dubbed traducianism the soul is generated from the parents creationism strongly
00:01:51.280 defends the immateriality of the soul. It is a spiritual substance created by a spiritual being,
00:01:58.700 God, not fashioned by human means, physical relations. While creationism is the majority
00:02:05.720 report in church history, traducianism is not without its proponents or its counter-arguments
00:02:11.140 to creationism. Put simply, traducianism holds that a father and mother do not merely provide
00:02:18.220 a body into which God later, or even instantaneously, breathes a soul, but that the whole person,
00:02:26.340 body and soul together, flows down the generations like a river from its source.
00:02:33.180 A father and mother become physically one in the act of sexual intercourse, Genesis 2.24,
00:02:40.020 and the child that is conceived is a real continuity in body and soul of both parents.
00:02:48.220 Some have likened Traducianism to two candles joining together to light a third, or two streams coalescing into a single river.
00:02:58.500 In human history, Adam and Eve's life became their children's life, and their children's life became their children's life,
00:03:06.620 so that the stream of humanity continues unbroken through time, both in body and in soul.
00:03:14.500 Eve is referred to as the mother of all living.
00:03:19.480 Traducianism strongly defends the doctrine of original sin.
00:03:23.580 If a new soul is created by God each time a human being is conceived, then how is it
00:03:29.080 that man is born in sin?
00:03:31.840 This would seem to imply either that God creates the soul already sinful, or that being fallen
00:03:38.460 is something added later, and not bound up with what it is to be human after Adam.
00:03:45.660 If a soul is created ex nihilo at birth, verses like 1 Corinthians 15.22, which teach that
00:03:53.080 in Adam all die, would be more precise if they implied, in Adam all who were created
00:04:00.400 sinners die.
00:04:02.940 By contrast, the Traducian can say that the entirety of Adam's line, physically and spiritually,
00:04:10.120 is dead in sin.
00:04:11.860 Death destroys the body because the fall corrupted the physical cosmos, but Adam's
00:04:18.180 spirit, propagated through his children, is also corrupted.
00:04:23.200 Paul describes all humanity as dead in sin, and on this account that death is not merely
00:04:29.920 external or legal, but inward and inherited. The wound that entered human nature in Adam
00:04:37.100 struck the root itself, and every branch bears its mark. We are not strangers to Adam's
00:04:45.720 corruption. We inherit it because we inherit the very humanity that sinned. This does not mean
00:04:54.580 all men are literally, physically dead, or that they also possess no spiritual capacities,
00:05:01.060 since these capacities, such as reason and intellect, are clouded, but not fully lost
00:05:06.520 at the fall. But it does mean that each soul is dead to God. It does not submit to His law,
00:05:14.520 Romans 8. It does not bend to His will and is uninterested in the things of God.
00:05:19.520 The analogy is closest to that of a branch severed from the tree.
00:05:25.180 It possesses in miniature the characteristics of a still intact branch,
00:05:30.820 leaves, bark, flesh, moss,
00:05:34.480 but is severed from the source of life, the tree itself.
00:05:39.000 The Christian doctrine of regeneration
00:05:40.780 is when this branch is reunited to the tree and restored to life.
00:05:46.460 From death, decay, and ossification, to life, union, and vibrancy in Christ.
00:05:54.900 The doctrine of Traducianism carries a sense of grandeur alongside its sobering realism.
00:06:01.460 It portrays mankind as profoundly united.
00:06:05.000 We are not billions of disconnected souls created independently and placed side by side.
00:06:11.300 We are one race, in a sense, one family, one living organism stretching across the centuries.
00:06:20.560 The infant in his cradle, the patriarch Abraham wandering through the desert, and the king upon his throne are all participants in a common human life, linked by spiritual bonds reaching back to the first man.
00:06:36.600 To bring this all the way back to race, nations, and the West, a Traducian understanding of mankind means nations are not merely economic, political, or even biological entities that happen to occupy the same territory.
00:06:53.780 they are living inheritances. Just as a family possesses a character that persists through
00:07:01.560 generations, so too a people possesses a distinct spirit shaped by blood, memory, custom, language,
00:07:11.780 worship, triumph, and suffering. In this framework, souls also possess unique qualities,
00:07:20.180 intangible aspects of character that cannot be reduced to mere instruction or intellectual
00:07:26.520 appropriation. Some men possess great souls, souls that abound with virtue, courage, and excellence.
00:07:35.520 Aristotle contrasts a great-souled man, Megalopsychia, with a small-souled man,
00:07:42.340 micro-psychia in Nicomachean ethics. The man of greatness is not just great because he is
00:07:50.400 skilled, wise, or comedic. He is endowed with a strength of conviction, virtue, and even
00:07:58.220 superiority that cannot be rationally explained. Both individual men and nations possess these
00:08:06.660 spiritual qualities that shape their identity. Paul agrees with the prophet of their own
00:08:12.960 that Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons. This is not just the culture of 1.00
00:08:20.880 Crete, or even their genetic predisposition, but a description of the soul of the people of Crete.
00:08:28.140 They were to be sharply rebuked, reprimanded, and instructed that they could be whole.
00:08:33.920 On the positive side, this means certain people excel in unique ways.
00:08:40.880 Catholic priest Rev. James L. Meager wrote the following in 1906.
00:08:47.080 To Japheth, the enlarging or the white man, Noah said,
00:08:53.120 May God enlarge Japheth, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan be his servant. 0.93
00:08:59.800 The Holy Ghost who spoke through Noah and gave Japheth's sons, the white races, that colonizing instinct, civilization, progress, advancement, invention, superiority. 0.95
00:09:14.940 The unrest of bright minds which down the ages lifted them to the highest prosperity, culture, and refinement.
00:09:23.380 the european soul is a soul of inquiry curiosity and creativity this is not a claim of biological
00:09:33.920 determinism or even a purely genetic argument rather it is the claim that god's blessing to
00:09:41.160 japheth flowed to his descendants and was handed down in habit memory and yes soul
00:09:49.240 The peoples who settled the coastlands, expanded into Europe, and later colonized much of the
00:09:55.280 known world, display a relentless drive for discovery, innovation, and conquest.
00:10:02.440 Those traits were transmitted, inculcated, and finally brought to their sharpest expression
00:10:08.200 in the American project, an extension of Anglo-Protestantism that forged the most
00:10:13.840 prosperous and formidable people in history.
00:10:16.900 The Anglo pilgrims and pioneers who first settled the valleys of the Northeast, the German immigrants who spread through the Midwest and the South, and the countless Irish, Italian, Swedish, and French families who carved out lives on the frontier, all passed down to their posterity a spiritual inheritance of will, hardiness, and self-reliance.
00:10:41.060 The frontier demanded a dogged determination and relentless courage that stamped the American ethos with the character of the cowboy.
00:10:50.060 Rough and tumble, hardy, and spirited, with a can-do attitude.
00:10:55.480 Alexis de Tocqueville, observing American sailors, remarked that they lost more ships, put to sea in fiercer weather, and braved heavier seas than many of their European counterparts.
00:11:06.880 That spunky, underdog American attitude that won the West has been carried forward and refined, transmitted through countless small acts of inheritance from one generation to the next.
00:11:21.700 In this way, a people develops something like a collective memory, a shared character arising from a common life.
00:11:29.360 Just as a single immediate family may be known for courage, craftsmanship, piety, or stubbornness, whole nations come to possess recognizable dispositions.
00:11:42.840 These traits are not invented or acquired overnight, but are cultivated across centuries, accumulating like growth rings in an ancient tree.
00:11:53.200 The nation, then, resembles a great cathedral under construction.
00:11:58.800 Each generation lays stones upon foundations it did not create. 0.76
00:12:04.020 Children inherit not only land and language,
00:12:06.940 but an entire world of meaning from their parents, grandparents, and extended family.
00:12:14.260 Thus it is not just that race is real, but that it is more than merely real.
00:12:20.080 A continuous, stable population is shaped by the experiences that imprint their minds,
00:12:26.400 their bodies, and their souls. These races inhabit distinct geographic regions bounded by mountain,
00:12:35.520 sea, and desert as set by God. They are unique enough to be spoken of in distinction from others,
00:12:43.120 yet all share in the essential nature of humanity by virtue of being both natural and spiritual
00:12:50.000 beings. They are also those for whom Christ died, redeeming not only individual souls,
00:12:57.700 but redeeming to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
00:13:03.360 Exodus 26 ISV