From a biblical perspective, what is everyone's view on marrying someone of a different race than yourself? Is it forbidden in the Bible, or is it a relationship that God will surely honor and bless to His glory?
Greg, I don't have my bible with me, but I can think of two things. First, did'nt Moses marry an Ethiopian woman? Were there any consequences of that? I don't remember. Also I believe we are to be evenly yoked, but I don't know if that plays into any area except a spiritual / emotional level. Another thing that comes to mind is when the sons of God married into the daughters of men. This could be interesting, as I have never considered it.
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I remember the ruckus over Bob Jones University a few years back over such issues. Such things are racist.
Frankly, it doesn't matter to me what color a person is. God loves all people. I see absolutely no prohibition in the Bible from marrying one of another color or race. In fact, the bible says that Moses was married to an Ethiopian woman. Anybody wanna venture a guess as to her color?
As an afterthought, I know several very good pastors and a truly evangelical missionary who married black women. Works for them!
Wasn't Mary Jewish and Joseph Palestinian?
Nowhere in the Bible can you find racism on marriages,
just these Biblical books and verses.
I'm Spanish/Cuban and my Wife is Scottish/Welch/English
We have been married 38yrs.
Numbers 12:21
Matthew 1:5
2Samuel 3:3
1Chronicles 11:26-47
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The arab& the jew are very much alike including geneticly.
It is there manmade relgous differences&invisable borders that seperate them.
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It apperas that Aaron and Miriam were upset with Moses for he married a different race, and they were punished by God for their beliefs
Numbers 12
Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses
1 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cu****e wife, for he had married a Cu****e. 2 "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?" they asked. "Hasn't he also spoken through us?" And the LORD heard this.
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
4 At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, "Come out to the Tent of Meeting, all three of you." So the three of them came out. 5 Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the Tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them stepped forward, 6 he said, "Listen to my words:
"When a prophet of the LORD is among you,
I reveal myself to him in visions,
I speak to him in dreams.
7 But this is not true of my servant Moses;
he is faithful in all my house.
8 With him I speak face to face,
clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"
9 The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.
10 When the cloud lifted from above the Tent, there stood Miriam"”leprous, [a] like snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had leprosy; 11 and he said to Moses, "Please, my lord, do not hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away."
13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O God, please heal her!"
14 The LORD replied to Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back." 15 So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.
16 After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.
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If all humans are direct descendents of Adam and Eve than all humans must be of the same "race" and it would therefore seem that the term "interracial marriage" is meaningless.
Interracial Marriage
