Shalom
If I may say,
Much of the links you gave were really hollow in real addressment of scripture - and there are many others out there which do excellent jobs of covering the scriptures which you may need to investigate in order to be caught up better on the matter. It seemed like you chose the above links without either looking into the matter for counter-balance..or being aware that there were already excellent counter-arguments on addressing the matter whenever others tend to offer arguments that have a racist ideology they don't even realize.
For some good articles to investigate which may help you, I'd suggest the following:
Here in the South, the issue of interacial relationships is a BIG DEAL - and ironic that so many are against it in light of how frequent it was in the scriptures whenever you had others of many differing ethnicities and they often united together in the Lord. It was never about ethnicity alone - but rather, it was about religion. For whenever someone was for a religious view the Lord hated, that's where you'd see God saying "Do not marry them" - but many examples are present where the Lord supported others being married from differing ethnicities. The Line of Yeshua is full of them
One of the resources you sited in the quote I had from you was from
Finis Dake -.. Finis Jennings Dake, to be specific..who is author of the pentecostal Bible.. And I wanted to comment on the history behind the individual since I grew up with it when it came to the Word of Faith Movement.
Hagin, who Price supports, had a book called "What to do when Faith Seems Weak and Victory Lost." The book was based on a sermon outline that Dake had in his book "God's Plan for Man" titled "Ten Things to Do When Faith Seems Weak and Victory Lost." Hagin gave Dake full credit for the outline in the intro of the book. Hagin and others have used Dake's teachings extensively......and some of this goes back to the issue of how WOF was developed from the practice of studying other sources. Hagin preached a number of sermons from other sources...with an example being Kenyon's sermons which were trascribed later. It was a normal practice of that time, no different than what happens with many today in Reformed theology when they're constantly regurgitating Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, John Piper, RC Sproul, etc. Most today did not come to their Calvinistic conclusions by simply studying Scripture....as they were influenced by men and they preached what they preached, many times word for word.
There are no quotes by Dake calling himself WoF, though other examples of him being connected with WOF would be seen in how the autobiography of Dake that was written by Leon Bible has a forward in it by Marylin Hickey where she talks about the times that Dake came to preach at their church. Hickey is WoF...and thus, with Dake preaching in her church, there's some connection with Dake and the WoF. Add to the fact that Dake Bible Sales company sells books by many Word Faith teachers as well...and so because of all of that, the WOF welcome Dake to the WoF family.
Most WoF use his material...and I remember when Fred Price stepped down from Rhema Bible School due to what he percieved to racisim being promoted within his work. Dr. Fred Price boycotted it and made an entire series against Dake which accuses him of racism. During the late nineties, Dr. Fredrick K. C. Price gave a three year study entitled “Racism in the pentecostal Church” (more
found here) in which he cited the Dake’s Bible and sought to expose the many racial slurs Mr. Dake included in his Bible. Fredrick Price also made a book on the issue entitled
Race, Religion & Racism: Perverting the Gospel to subjugate a people -.
In the Dakes Bible, there's one part containing the statements he said under "30 reasons for segregation of races." in page 159 of the New Testament....and of course, some of what he noted is understandable. For seventy-five years ago, when Finis Dake was alive, racism was much more accepted (tolerated) than it is today. . And Dake wrote his KJV with notes in 1954, as well as being born and raised in Georgia.
Moreover, most whites in the early part of the 1900s were racist by our current standards....and some still have aspects of that in their vocabularly. I recall being in one church fellowhship where another elderly white lady was talking to me about Jesus---and though she was noting how much the Word says we should love each other, I was shocked to see how she still called blacks the "N" Word and thought nothing of it (i.e. "God loves all who come to him in faith...and I think 'ni**ers' are some of the sweetest people ever"). All I could do was smile and nod at her comment, seeing that I was one of the few black people at the fellowship---and I thought that as much as she had changed, there were still many things that'd be difficult to change when growing up in a certain era. Dake was probably no different.
As it concerns the notes, older versions from 1987 and on to the late 90's has the 30 items in question. They are notes for Acts 17:26. However, the 1997 Computer version of Dakes does not have these notes since they have been replaced with a "toned down" version. For the sake of informational perposes, I decided to place it up here (as I saved them from back in the day):
Dake Charts »Front Matter »Summary of Acts
Acts 17:26
a[one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth]
Separation in Scripture
This verse says God made "all nations of men" from "one blood"; it also speaks of "the bounds of their habitation." In spite of a common ancestry, from Adam first and later Noah, it was God's will for man to scatter over the earth, to "be fruitful, and multiply" (Genesis 1:28; Genesis 8:17; Genesis 9:1). Man's failure to obey caused God to confuse his language (Genesis 11:1-9) and to physically separate the nations by dividing the earth into continents (Genesis 10:25). Both physically and spiritually, separation has been a consistent theme for God's people:
1. Separation for Messiah's line:
(1) Before and after Noah's flood, fallen angels (sons of God in § Genesis 6:1-4, notes) married human women and had giant offspring. This was done to corrupt the human race and prevent the birth of the Messiah, the Seed of the woman prophesied in Genesis 3:15.
(2) Destruction of the corrupt human race was the reason for the flood in Noah's day. See note, § Genesis 6.
(3) God preserved Noah because he and his family were the only pure Adamites left. See note, § Genesis 6:9.
(4) Satan continually tried to prevent Messiah's birth by corrupting Israel through intermarriage with Canaanites whose race included giant offspring. One reason for Israel's separation as a nation was to preserve their purity for the birth of the Messiah. See note, § Genesis 24:3.
2. Separation in Israel:
(1) Abraham forbade Eliezer to take a Canaanite wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:1-4). God was pleased and He directed whom to get (Genesis 24:7-67).
(2) Isaac forbade Jacob to take a Canaanite wife (Genesis 27:46-28:7).
(3) Abraham sent the sons of his concubines and his second wife far away from Isaac so their descendants would not mix (Genesis 25:1-6).
(4) Esau's disobedience deeply grieved his parents (Genesis 25:28; Genesis 26:34-35; Genesis 27:46; Genesis 28:8-9).
(5) Two branches of Isaac remain separate forever (Genesis 36; Genesis 46:8-26).
(6) Ishmael's and Isaac's descendants remain separate forever (Genesis 25:12-23; 1 Chron. 1:29).
(7) God forbade Israel to intermarry (Exodus 34:12-16; Deut. 7:3-6).
(8) Intermarriage caused disunity among God's people (Numbers 12).
(9) Enemies remained in the land as a penalty for this (Joshua 23:12-13).
(10) Intermarriage caused a curse on Israel (Judges 3:6-7; Numbers 25:1-8).
(11) This was Solomon's sin (1 Kings 11).
(12) It was a sin of Jews returning from Babylon (Ezra 9; Ezra 10; Neh. 13).
(13) God told Israel to be separated (Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 23:9; 1 Kings 8:53).
(14) Jews are recognized as a separate people in all ages because of God's choice (Matthew 10:6; John 1:11).
(15) Separation between Jews and all other nations is to remain in eternity (Isaiah 2:2-4; Ezekiel 37; Ezekiel 47:13-48:35; Zech. 14:16-21; Matthew 19:28; Luke 1:32-33; Rev. 7:1-8; Rev. 14:1-5).
(16) Certain people in Israel were not to worship with others (Deut. 23:1-3; Ezra 10:8; Neh. 9:2; Neh. 10:28; Neh. 13:3).
3. Miscellaneous separation:
(1) An ox and an *** could not be worked together (Deut. 22:10).
(2) Stock was forbidden to be bred with other kinds (Leviticus 19:19).
(3) Sowing mixed seed in the same field was unlawful (Leviticus 19:19).
(4) Different seeds were forbidden to be planted in vineyards (Deut. 22:9).
(5) Wearing garments of mixed fabrics forbidden (Deut. 22:11; Leviticus 19:19).
4. Christian separation: Christians to be separate from certain people at times (Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Cor. 5:9-13; 1 Cor. 6:15; 2 Cor. 6:14-18; 2 Thes. 3:6,14; 1 Tim. 6:5; 2 Tim. 3:5).__________________
Of course, to reiterate, I do not agree with most of the interpretation of these verses...as I just happen to have the notes and am providing them for the purposes of this discussion.
Minus the fact that much of the interpretation in terms of racist/ethnocentric views is wrong and needs to be addressed on the principal of the matter, it makes sense for Price to do as he did since Fred Price was a graduate of Rhema Bible School and a world famous WORD of FAITH teacher....and as other Charismatic and Pentecostal ministers ignored the racist remarks in Dakes Bible for over 50 years, something needed to be said....just as it was with other camps who had the same issue, such as John Weslely denouncing others like Jonathan Edwards for actively supporting the institution of slavery---despite Edwards being a remarkable theologian and renouned for his "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and helping start the Great Awakening Revival
Price's work entitled "Race, Religion & Racism, Vol. 1: A Bold Encounter With Division in the Church" went into great depth discussing the historic lies propagated in the church that Blacks were inherently inferior and therefore needed to be segregated from Whites, particularly from white women..and he also went into great depth showing how authors such as Charles Carroll and Bible scholars Cyrus Ingerson Scofield and Finis Jennings Dake used the Bible to justify separation/segregation. I appreciated what Brother Price noted when it comes to the reality that neither color or ethnicity matter with God. ...and ESPECICALLY in regards to marriage, I appreciated how Price sought to show that Gods only prohibition regarding marriage is whether a believer is joined with someone who is not a believer. Dake Family Publishing agreed to allow Dr. Leon Bible to rewrite Dake’s and remove the racial slurs that were in review. However, the newer Dake’s Bible that others have seen do not mention the revision (As I'm aware)
With Price and his series on racism, it had many far reaching ramifications---as he noted comments by others regarding interracial dating and marriage as being wrong, such as those he pointed out made by Kenneth Hagin, Jr., the son of his own mentor. And as Price made clear, Sunday mornings are still the most segregated time in America...and historic problems such as slavery and segregation could never have existed without the consent of the Church--nor is it possible for seperation in churches/differing ethnic groups to continue today without the Church saying its okay.
