Interracial Relationships

I completely agree with you Anna. I do not believe God is opposed to interracial marriages at all! If I'm not mistaken, Moses married an Ethiopian woman, which would have been outside of his race. I have relatives who believe the opposite as well, and we have basically agreed to disagree, even though they have yet to come up with a scriptural basis for their belief.

I think this will be more appropriate to the workshop forum ok?

You will gt more replies there.

God says not to marry someone of another RELIGION, but He does not say to marry someone of another race. There are several instances of people marrying outside their race in the Bible. Ruth and Boaz, Esther and Xerxes, Ishmael and Judith...

And acutally, by scientific definition, there are not different races in humans, just different skin tones.

So, if God says it's okay, who can give a reason that it isn't?

I have only ever been in interracial relationships.

I have two bi-racial daughters.

God created Adam and Eve. What color or race were they?

I believe that Adam and Eve had all of the races in them.

God did not create a Black Adam and Eve and a white Adam and Eve, a Hispanic Adam and Eve, an Asian Adam and Eve, etc...He created only one Adam and one Eve. I actually had a racist person once tell me that the Bible says that God created an Adam and Eve of each race!

I believe that we are created in God's image.

I believe that God has all the races in Him as well.

How can it be wrong then?

Here are some interesting quotes from an article on line that I found:

http://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2000/may/page13.shtml

"Moses married an Ethiopian woman while Patriarchy was effective and was subsequently chided by his brother and sister after Judaism had been implemented. “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman” (Numbers 11:1). Race and skin color were issues with Miriam and Aaron for which they challenged Moses for the leadership of the nation of Israel. The race and skin color of Moses’ Ethiopian wife differed from the race and skin color of the Jews (Jeremiah 13:23). God severely rebuked Miriam and Aaron for challenging Moses for the leadership of the nation and brought leprosy upon Miriam (Numbers 11:1-16). Implicitly, God did not share the sentiments of Miriam and Aaron regarding interracial marriage, per se, as well as strenuously objected to their challenge of Moses, irrespective of the basis on which they proposed to challenge Moses. The principle here involving racial marriage (i.e., God has no investment one way or the other regarding interracial marriage) is not countermanded by any other Old or New Testament passages and is applicable today ¾ religiously."

I am also reminded of the verses that follow:

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

Col. 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.


God bless,

Tammy

Thanks for posting that Tammy!

Joseph married an Egyptian woman, too, and their children were still loved and blessed by Jacob and by God.

Ya know, I never knew there were interracial marriages in the Bible!

Cool!

There is only one important color to God. That being red. the color of the Blood of Jesus.

Z

WoooHooo Zamar!!!!!!

ok...
my family is a bit racist...
and I occasionally feel that racism is rubbing off on me...
sooo...
I would appreciate everyones prayers on this matter

My Dad is the same way. I will pray for you that you (all of us really) see people the way that God sees us.

Z

Thanks,
I greatly appreciate it

Originally posted by SenseiPiccolo
ok...
my family is a bit racist...
and I occasionally feel that racism is rubbing off on me...
sooo...
I would appreciate everyones prayers on this matter

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I am praying for you and your family! Thanks for your honesty!

Amen Zamar! God loves each and every one of us, no matter what race we are.

Excellent post. Just what I was going to point to.

Originally posted by susabean
Here are some interesting quotes from an article on line that I found:

http://www.gospelgazette.com/gazette/2000/may/page13.shtml

"Moses married an Ethiopian woman while Patriarchy was effective and was subsequently chided by his brother and sister after Judaism had been implemented. “And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman” (Numbers 11:1). Race and skin color were issues with Miriam and Aaron for which they challenged Moses for the leadership of the nation of Israel. The race and skin color of Moses’ Ethiopian wife differed from the race and skin color of the Jews (Jeremiah 13:23). God severely rebuked Miriam and Aaron for challenging Moses for the leadership of the nation and brought leprosy upon Miriam (Numbers 11:1-16). Implicitly, God did not share the sentiments of Miriam and Aaron regarding interracial marriage, per se, as well as strenuously objected to their challenge of Moses, irrespective of the basis on which they proposed to challenge Moses. The principle here involving racial marriage (i.e., God has no investment one way or the other regarding interracial marriage) is not countermanded by any other Old or New Testament passages and is applicable today ¾ religiously."

I am also reminded of the verses that follow:

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

Col. 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.


God bless,

Tammy

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I agree with you but you can't use Gal 3:28 in this case. If you do, you would be supporting same sex marriages!

>>I just want to know your heart.

Rev. 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

John had a vision of Heaven and in it were people from all nations, races, cultures and languages. They were all one in Christ. We know they all had the mind of Christ, and were all one in purpose and intent. As the Bible says, there were all of one mind and one accord.

I am not really so sure some of our theorys about race are even founded in fact. They were developed at a time when the world was a much bigger place. Before you could jump on a airplane and be anywhere in the world within 24 hours.

For me, I do not even see all that much proof that there is such a thing as race. Yes my wife is asian and I am anglo saxton, but what does that make the people from middle east? What is someone from India? Are they white or of the asian race? What about latin americans that have so much Spanish blood in them, what are they. What is my son who is a mixture of asian and english?

If you put someone from the Philippines, Indonesia, Mongolia, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico & some other latin country along with a native american together in a room, could you tell them apart? We have people tell us that they think my wife and I are both from mexico. No one ever thought that before I married her.

Perhaps we should look more to the Bible and the story of the tower of Babel. Before Babel, the whole earth had one language and one speech. Those of us who are united together in Christ will again have one langague. It is called the LOVE language. Thanks, JohnR7

>>Moses married an Ethiopian woman

Ethiopia is the crown jewel of africa. The queen of sheba was from ethiopia. The man who carried the cross for Jesus was from ethiopia. The last country our church will go to in Africa will be Ethiopia. The year we go there, you will know that will be the last year for Africa. From there we will will be going to another area in the world. Most likely China, but the pastor has expressed interest in the middle east also. Remember, he is 80 years young and just getting started. Thanks, JohnR7