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Should
people of different races marry?
Are there references in the Bible that forbid
marriages between different races ( black to white, korean to white ). This is a big
problem where I come from and I would like to know the truth.
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I am giving you a portion from a similar
question first. I would suggest that you read the entire previous question and answer
first, before continuing on with this answer. The previous question can be seen at, "http://www.pathwaynet.com/libertyb/question/prequest/races.htm".
Here is a portion from that previous answer: "God had purpose and
design in giving people who spoke different languages very distinctive features. For one
thing, it has kept them basically apart for all of these centuries now (yes, different
races do intermarry today, but it is still not the normal practice). Man could have
learned the languages of other nations, eventually, and could have been all one, big,
rebellious family against God again — just like at the Tower of Babel. But when God
separated them by language, He also allowed other features to quickly come out that would
help to keep them apart. I do not think that the different skin colors and features have
anything to do with some being more cursed than others. I think it has everything to do
with God’s desire to keep the people’s of the earth somewhat separate from each
other. Because God knows that when the earth gets all together, they will end up rebelling
against Him. That is exactly what is going to happen in the end time. There is going to be
a "one world church," a "one world government," and a "one world
philosophy" — all against God. It is going to be a world-united church against
the one true way of salvation through Jesus Christ. It is going to be a world-united
government that will stand up against the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. It will be a
world-united philosophy that true Christians are "bad, narrow-minded, and the true
problem upon earth." The different races are intermarrying more and more today, but
through the differences in language and distinctive features, God has kept them basically
apart until their final day of worldwide union and rebellion against Him."
Genesis 11:6 says, "And the LORD said, Behold, THE PEOPLE IS ONE,
AND THEY ALL HAVE ONE LANGUAGE; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." The Bible emphasizes there,
first, that "the people is one." Then it says, "and they all have one
language." There is that definite push today, worldwide, to all become
"one" again. And that "oneness" will end up in rebellion against God.
Despite the language difference at the Tower of Babel, mankind could
have gotten right back together in several years. They could have learned each
other’s languages, and God would have had to do something else to keep them from
becoming one again. So God not only changed their "languages," but He also
changed their "looks," (not instantly, like their languages, but by sending them
out in small groups which married amongst themselves. See the previous question and answer
for how this was accomplished). Any honest person must admit that it has worked (the
differences in language and looks), for the most part, to keep the peoples of the world
somewhat separate.
Because
of the above findings in my Bible study, I do not encourage interracial marriages. No race
is less than the other, but it was God’s desire to keep the people of the earth
somewhat separate for these centuries to keep them from all getting together and rebelling
again. To intermarry between the races is to break down those differences that God has
used to keep mankind from uniting and rebelling again.
This does not mean that a person who has intermarried, or is the
product of intermarriage is under some sort of curse today. The fact remains that there
are examples in the Scripture of intermarriage. Salmon married Rahab, the harlot of
Jericho (Matthew 1:5), and Boaz married Ruth of Moab (Ruth 4:10), of which both marriages
are in the line of David, which is the line if Christ. Ruth 4:13-22 says, "So Boaz
took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her
conception, and she bare a son. And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which
hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And
he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy
daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne
him. And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. And the
women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called
his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Now these are the
generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz
begat Obed, And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David." So God can greatly use
people, despite what has taken place in the family line. God looks at the heart.
Moses married an Ethiopian woman (Numbers 12:1), which caused his
brother and sister to murmur against him (which trouble is often the case in a family when
there is an interracial marriage). God did not openly rebuke Moses for marrying her, but
rebuked Aaron and Miriam for murmuring against a leader which God Himself had chosen.
God’s silence in the matter does not mean that He approved of Moses’ marriage,
any more than God’s silence meant that He approved when Abraham listened to Sarah and
married Hagar the Egyptian; or when Jacob ended up marrying four women; or when David
married many women. God uses us despite our faults and failures in life. Psalm 130:3,4
says, "If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there
is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared." Let us determine to seek and
follow God’s perfect will to the best of our abilities.
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