DaRkWoLf said:
Kasey, a quick point that comes from scripture; but a foreword as well:
Firstly, Ive gotten a smug, yet sad, laugh out of this thread. That someone would actually believe this stuff woleheartedly is a first for me; its not origional in the history of things, but Ive never met someone who honestly believed this BS. Im not going to even try to pretend to try and show respect. There are very few points of view on this planet that I cant admire or understand in some contorted form or another, yet alone tolerate. Using religion as an excuse for racism/social darwinism is one of those things that I cannot tolerate. Now lets get to my points before this becomes a rant-o-thon.
I dont care if you dont want or care to tolerate it, thats not the issue. The issue is whether or not the BIble is for or against interracial marriages. Its against it. If you dont like it, then that is your problem, but dont come here and say its BS because thats "your opinion", not a fact.
Now Ill admit that Ive gotten this info/scripture reference through analyzation and not memorization. Im a pagan not a christian. Ive used a copy of the bible that sits on my bookshelf as an interesting read for reference.
Uh-huh
Lets analyze what Ezra said was the reason of this sin. Ezra quoting the prophets that spread the word of god:
"The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other."
Following this Ezra prayed to god and asked if they should again break his commannds, these are Ezra's words:
"Shall we again break your commands and intermarry with the peoples who commit such detestable practices?"
Read the writing. Neither god nor Ezra cared about the peoples race, they cared about what the people practiced as part of their religion and day to day life.
You are going according to an English "translation" and not the Hebrew. The Hebrew is the original inspired text of the Law and the Prophets just as the Greek is the original inspired text of the New Testament.
Perhaps you should also get it through your thick head and read the scriptures more carefully if you care to use them as something to try to disprove what IM saying. The context is God's Law as explicetly stated by Ezra 10:3.
In addition, you do not acknowledge the statutes of God in Leviticus 19:19. Also, you do not acknowlege Nehemiah 13:3
Nehemiah 13:3: Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the
mixed multitude.
The context is God's Law as stated in verse 1 as those things are mentioned in Dueteronomy. The Hebrew word for "mixed", according to Strong's Concordance is the Hebrew word "ereb" and it means a mixture, mingled people, MONGREL race. The Strong's Expanded Dictionary of Bible words, which includes The Best of Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary verifies this.
The Israelite people were to seperate themselves from mongrel people, which was a result of marrying outside their race, therefore proving beyond a shadow of a conclusive doubt that its against God's Law to marry outside your race.
Also, dont ignore Nehemiah 13:27
Nehemaih 13:27: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
The Hebrew word for "strange" here, according to Strong's Concordance and Gesenius' Hebre CHaldee Lexicon, its the Hebrew word "nokriy" and it means a foriegn, alien, out-landish, NON-RELATIVE individual.
As stated, its against God the Father and Christ Jesus, a transgression to marry non-relative people, or, as in the context of Ezra and the previous passage of Nehemiah, outside one's race. To marry someone outside your race will always result in mongrel children and therefore, as stated in God's Law concerning even animals and plants as well as the context of the creation account in Genesis of the animals being after their own "kind", interracial marriage is completely against the Bible and
no one can justifiably say differently.
You dont have a leg to stand on. You dont know the Bible and the only version of Christianity that you know of is "Judeo-Christianity" and "Roman Catholicism".
Do I actually have to continue on, further disproving your out-of-context statements, which are doing nothing but making christianity look bad, or are you finally satisfied?
I make Judeo-Christianity and Roman Catholicism look bad, not the Bible and not God the Father and CHrist Jesus.
As a random point, what do you think of the liger? Ligers are the uncommon, but sometimes natural spawn of the mating of a lion and a tiger. Many of these are results of human intervention, but they are found in the wild..
This is irrelevant. Stick to the subject matter of whether or not the BIble teaches that same-race marriage is wrong. However, I hardly expect you to do this anyways and I have shown you evidence that you cannot disprove whatsoever.
Therefore, I rest my case
