Why exactly would interracial relationships and marriage be a sin?

[Saint Frankenstein]

I refer to this:

I assume you are actually referring to a black woman marrying a white man, or a white woman marrying a black man. I believe it is sin, and an even graver sin for the Jews of the day because it was so necessary that they keep their lineage pure for the sake of Christ.

So, let's hear it.

 

[Sonofason]

I refer to this:


So, let's hear it.

"Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." (Deuteronomy 22:9)

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Other than the one or two Bible verses that were intended to apply to Jews marrying non-Jews, the most recent example I can think of is when I heard some guy saying it is betraying your own race. Many people do mention the kids, and unfortunately society has made it very rigid and sometimes difficult for biracial children because many times they are seen as being one-or-the-other and not enough of the one. I know one lady (white) who worked very hard to raise her biracial daughter to not see race as important, and it was undone by her school teacher, after Obama was first elected, when the teacher began focusing on the girl's black heritage.
But that's hardly a reason to not let biracial couples get together and get married. However it is more proof that society has got along way to go in breaking up the "black or white/one or the other" mentality that has forced a very limited world view upon society as a whole.

 

[Shiranui117]

"Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." (Deuteronomy 22:9)

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:14-16 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

Do you dare to rebuild the wall between peoples which Christ tore down? There was no such racism among the Roman Empire. It wasn't a problem for the first several centuries of Christian history.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Other than the one or two Bible verses that were intended to apply to Jews marrying non-Jews, the most recent example I can think of is when I heard some guy saying it is betraying your own race. Many people do mention the kids, and unfortunately society has made it very rigid and sometimes difficult for biracial children because many times they are seen as being one-or-the-other and not enough of the one. I know one lady (white) who worked very hard to raise her biracial daughter to not see race as important, and it was undone by her school teacher, after Obama was first elected, when the teacher began focusing on the girl's black heritage.
But that's hardly a reason to not let biracial couples get together and get married. However it is more proof that society has got along way to go in breaking up the "black or white/one or the other" mentality that has forced a very limited world view upon society as a whole.

The thing is in the Bible interracial marriages happened, Rahab and Ruth were gentile and Queen Esther was married to a gentile. And Paul teaches that there are no differences in race in Christ and the Jews and Gentiles are equal. Sonofason just took a big **** upon what Christianity really teaches.

 

[Thana]

It only applied to Jews marrying non-Jews and isn't about race at all.

 

[Shiranui117]

The thing is in the Bible interracial marriages happened, Rahab and Ruth were gentile and Queen Esther was married to a gentile. And Paul teaches that there are no differences in race in Christ and the Jews and Gentiles are equal. Sonofason just took a big **** upon what Christianity really teaches.

^One more to add to that list: Uriah the Hittite was married to an Israelite woman.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Do you dare to rebuild the wall between peoples which Christ tore down?

Amen to that.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

"Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled." (Deuteronomy 22:9)

Oh, so that's it? Well, as has been pointed out already, you're wrong. You obviously know nothing about what Christianity is and what it means to be a Christian. Racism and drawing boundaries between people is a sin. We are all the children of the Creator and only He is above any of His creations, not creation over creation.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

^One more to add to that list: Uriah the Hittite was married to an Israelite woman.

And Moses himself married two gentile women.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

And Moses himself married two gentile women.

And one of them was black.

 

[dgirl1986]

Oh, so that's it? Well, as has been pointed out already, you're wrong. You obviously know nothing about what Christianity is and what it means to be a Christian. Racism and drawing boundaries between people is a sin. We are all the children of the Creator and only He is above any of His creations, not creation over creation.

The quotation of a verse doesnt really answer the question. There is a lot in the bible that has been discarded.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The thing is in the Bible interracial marriages happened, Rahab and Ruth were gentile and Queen Esther was married to a gentile. And Paul teaches that there are no differences in race in Christ and the Jews and Gentiles are equal. Sonofason just took a big **** upon what Christianity really teaches.

It happened, but the verses that forbid things like "mixing of tribes" have been grossly misinterpreted to cover interracial marriages when it's original intent was prohibiting Jews from marrying non-Jews.

 

[Shiranui117]

It happened, but the verses that forbid things like "mixing of tribes" have been grossly misinterpreted to cover interracial marriages when it's original intent was prohibiting Jews from marrying non-Jews.

Actually, not even that. Its original intent was to keep the followers of God from marrying pagans. Uriah the Hittite was probably a convert to the Israelite religion, or his parents were, and he married an Israelite woman and became a greatly respected man in the military of Israel.

 

[Parsimony]

I want you to explain this quote from the other thread:

Well, yes. Compared to Jews, non-Jew's DNA is tainted. When I speak of Jew, I am referring to a members of the tribe of Judah, decendants of Judah.

Give me some scientifically-verified evidence that Jewish DNA is somehow more pure than non-Jewish DNA.

I've read about the laws forbidding intermarriage with other peoples, and they seem to be aimed at avoiding idolatry and mixing the practices of other cultures with Judaism in such a way that they would damage them. I want to see a verse which can definitively be shown to be forbidding interracial marriage specifically and not inter-cultural or inter-religious marriage.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

It happened, but the verses that forbid things like "mixing of tribes" have been grossly misinterpreted to cover interracial marriages when it's original intent was prohibiting Jews from marrying non-Jews.

Those verses had nothing to do with Israelites marrying a different race but with marrying people who worshiped a different god or marrying idol worshipers.

 

[Sonofason]

I want you to explain this quote from the other thread:



Give me some scientifically-verified evidence that Jewish DNA is somehow more pure than non-Jewish DNA.

Compared to red, a mixture of red and blue is tainted. It is no longer red. I did not say that Jewish DNA is more pure than non-Jewish DNA. All pure substances are pure.

 

[Parsimony]

Compared to red, a mixture of red and blue is tainted. It is no longer red. I did not say that Jewish DNA is more pure than non-Jewish DNA. All pure substances are pure.

Then why should God care what a person's DNA is like?

 

[Sonofason]

Oh, so that's it? Well, as has been pointed out already, you're wrong. You obviously know nothing about what Christianity is and what it means to be a Christian. Racism and drawing boundaries between people is a sin. We are all the children of the Creator and only He is above any of His creations, not creation over creation.

You just said, "We are all the children of the Creator..."

Is that true?

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." (John 3:4-10)

 

[CynthiaCypher]

I want share some scripture bout what even Yahweh thinks about racism.

Numbers12

1,2 Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cu****e wife (he had married a Cu****e ). 2 They said, “Is Moses the only one the Lord speaks through? Doesn't he also speak through us?” And the Lord heard this.

3 (Now Moses was very humble . He was the least proud person on earth.)

4 So the Lord suddenly spoke to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam and said, “All three of you come to the Meeting Tent.” So they went. 5 The Lord came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance to the Tent. He called to Aaron and Miriam, and they both came near. 6 He said, “Listen to my words:

When prophets are among you,
I, the Lord, ·will show myself to them in visions;
I will speak to them in dreams.
7 But this is not true with my servant Moses.
I trust him to lead all my people.
8 I speak face to face with him—
clearly, not with hidden meanings.
He has even seen the form of the Lord.
You should be afraid
to speak against my servant Moses.”
9 The Lord was very angry with them, and he left.

10 When the cloud lifted from the Tent and Aaron turned toward Miriam, she was as white as snow; she had a skin disease. 11 Aaron said to Moses, “Please, my master, forgive us for our foolish sin. 12 Don’t let her be like a baby who is born dead”

13 So Moses cried out to the Lord, “God, please heal her!”

14 The Lord answered Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, she would have been shamed for seven days, so put her outside the camp for seven days. After that, she may come back.” 15 So Miriam was put outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until she came back.

16 After that, the people left Hazeroth and camped in the Desert [Wilderness] of Paran.

Yahweh spat in the face of Miriam and turn her lily white and unclean because she objected to the skin color of Moses' wife.