Why exactly would interracial relationships and marriage be a sin?

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Of course, and that is why it is so absurd. I am not trying to justify my position. I'm not seeking approval for my position. It is what it is.

Sounds like you're talking about a phobia. It's irrational to make your phobia out to be some sort of moral code.

 

[ScuzManiac]

... no, not sinful; just "tainted". :sarcastic

A racist Christian???!!!???

How surprising!

 

[sojourner]

That is not the post I was referring to.

Yes it was, because that's his post you quoted in your post.

 

[sojourner]

You are the only one here representing a bigoted and hypocritical attitude here.

Don't project.
You've changed your attitude here since the beginning of this post. That's good, provided it's not simply some chameleon game you're playing.

 

[sojourner]

Lies don't either.

Not cogent.

 

[sojourner]

This thread is pure gold.

Keep at it i'll need something to read for my lunch break.

*Spit-take alert!*
If you read this thread while eating, you're likely to spew all over your plate!

 

[sojourner]

Well, you see, it's rather subjective. Some people don't like purple. I personally like purple. If you knowingly subject purple upon a culture that doesn't like purple, then there might be a problem and purple will suffer for it.

Purple, though, takes priority over culture. Giving culture priority over color represents... that's right! Discrimination! Cultures simply aren't allowed to not like purple. We saw that dynamic during Apartheid and the Holocaust.

 

[sojourner]

... no, not sinful; just "tainted".

Good call.

 

[Shiranui117]

Well, you see, it's rather subjective. Some people don't like purple. I personally like purple. If you knowingly subject purple upon a culture that doesn't like purple, then there might be a problem and purple will suffer for it.

But certain people having a negative view of you doesn't mean that you are sinful for being biracial or that your parents from different races are sinful for marrying each other. God is not on the level of petty human prejudices.

 

[sojourner]

Perhaps the concept of "racial purity" is what's sinful, if a finger MUST be pointed...

 

[InChrist]

I believe that according to the scriptures there is only one race: the human race. I think the biblical perspective is that there is no such thing as interracial marriage, so anyone marrying another person of what the world may call another "race" would not be a sin at all. And as others have pointed out the laws originally given to the nation of Israel in regard to marriage were specifically given to Israel alone to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations surrounding them for God's purposes.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I believe that according to the scriptures there is only one race: the human race. I think the biblical perspective is that there is no such thing as interracial marriage, so anyone marrying another person of what the world may call another "race" would not be a sin at all. And as others have pointed out the laws originally given to the nation of Israel in regard to marriage were specifically given to Israel alone to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations surrounding them for God's purposes.

^ So much this. :yes:

 

[ChristineES]

I believe that according to the scriptures there is only one race: the human race. I think the biblical perspective is that there is no such thing as interracial marriage, so anyone marrying another person of what the world may call another "race" would not be a sin at all. And as others have pointed out the laws originally given to the nation of Israel in regard to marriage were specifically given to Israel alone to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations surrounding them for God's purposes.

Great! Frubal for you.

 

[sojourner]

I believe that according to the scriptures there is only one race: the human race. I think the biblical perspective is that there is no such thing as interracial marriage, so anyone marrying another person of what the world may call another "race" would not be a sin at all. And as others have pointed out the laws originally given to the nation of Israel in regard to marriage were specifically given to Israel alone to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations surrounding them for God's purposes.

As I understand it, the only biblical injunction against mixed marriage is between people of Israel and other, enemy nations. And that was expressly to minimize conquering nations trying to breed the religion out of the conquered Israel.

 

[InChrist]

As I understand it, the only biblical injunction against mixed marriage is between people of Israel and other, enemy nations. And that was expressly to minimize conquering nations trying to breed the religion out of the conquered Israel.

I agree that the biblical injunction against mixed marriages was for Israel to keep them, as you say, from becoming co-mingled with enemy nations and losing their identity as God's people, His representative nation on the earth, and the nation that would bring forth the Messiah.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

As I understand it, the only biblical injunction against mixed marriage is between people of Israel and other, enemy nations. And that was expressly to minimize conquering nations trying to breed the religion out of the conquered Israel.

Kinda sorta. On this issue, like on many others, the Bible has something for everyone.

In Acts, Paul is quoted as saying that the divisions between nations were instituted by God:

Acts 17:26:

From one man [God] made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

It's hard to marry someone of a different nationality - or even meet them - if you stick to your own nation and he/she sticks to his/hers.

 

[sojourner]

Kinda sorta. On this issue, like on many others, the Bible has something for everyone.

In Acts, Paul is quoted as saying that the divisions between nations were instituted by God:

Acts 17:26:


It's hard to marry someone of a different nationality - or even meet them - if you stick to your own nation and he/she sticks to his/hers.

Well, and in that society and time, a lot of travel simply wasn't in the cards as a daily part of life.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Well, and in that society and time, a lot of travel simply wasn't in the cards as a daily part of life.

Wait... you're arguing that the Apostle Paul wouldn't have been acquainted with the idea of travel and migration?

Regardless, I recognize that your comment speaks to reasons why that verse might've been in the Bible, not that it really does imply that (in the opinion of its author, at least) interracial interaction goes against God's will.

 

[sojourner]

Wait... you're arguing that the Apostle Paul wouldn't have been acquainted with the idea of travel and migration?

Regardless, I recognize that your comment speaks to reasons why that verse might've been in the Bible, not that it really does imply that (in the opinion of its author, at least) interracial interaction goes against God's will.

No, that's not what I'm arguing; I think we're on the same page here (It's a frickin' miracle!). Yes. I don't think that it implies interracial.