Yes. We are all made in the image of God, and each of us bears that image within our being. Skin color doesn't change that one bit.
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Why exactly would interracial relationships and marriage be a sin?
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CynthiaCypher
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Numbers 12
Sonofason
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Ooh, nice. Taking the part where God says "If her father had spat in her face, she would have been shamed for seven days" to prove that God was still Miriam's father, even though she had sinned, in order to refute Sonofason's claim that those who sin cannot be called children of God in any sense. I didn't even catch that on the first read, that was really crafty.
Sonofason
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Yes, we are all made in the image of God, and skin color doesn't change that one bit. I agree.
You seem to have discarded Ephesians 2:14-16 and Galatians 3:28.
Then there is nothing wrong with whites marrying blacks, or anyone marrying anyone from another race, nor is it a sin.
CynthiaCypher
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I am crafty. Like Jesus told me to do ""I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as crafty as snakes and as innocent as doves."
I am my father's daughter.
CynthiaCypher
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And a whole bunch of scripture besides that.
dgirl1986
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sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
yes, you did say that:
Therefore, the Jewish DNA is "more pure," if other DNA, compared with it, is tainted.
But do let's talk color:
Red is red. But blue is blue. Both are pure in their own right. Pure red is pure red, and is not "more pure" than pure blue.
But that's not what we're really talking about here. Once again, you obfuscate the issue by conflating two disparate, but seemingly connected things.
What we're really talking about here is a comparison between a primary color "red," and a secondary color, "purple" (a blend of red and blue).
Are you saying that pure red is purer than pure purple??? That all secondary colors are a sin?
And by that definition of purity, is it OK for one of German ancestry to marry one of Swedish ancestry? That just doesn't bear out in nature, because we know that when the bloodlines get too pure, there are genetic problems. That's why pure bloodlines are called "bluebloods."
Sleeppy
Fatalist. Christian. Pacifist.
Anyone with basic gardening knowledge could tell you what this verse is actually referring to. You've actually committed a sin greater than a gardening mishap could ever be. But you are ignorant, and forgiveness will come to you with time, and basic observation/education. You would not exist if your ancestors regarded skin tone as you do.
They shouldn't. Or, to be more specific, they aren't.
I refer to this:
So, let's hear it.
Hmm... it isn't a sin or I am a walking result of sin.
I am of mixed "race": Half white (my mother is half Italian and almost half Russian and German Jew) and half Native American (or almost half). My parents were divorced when I was 5 and since I was 8, my mother has been married to a man of Japanese descent(both of his parents were originally from Japan) (he's American, born in Northern California and lived there except for his time in the interment camp during WWII). My stepfather's first wife was Jewish and he has two daughters with her (his ex-wife is deceased).
Oh, I know it isn't a sin. I'm half black and half white, myself. I just wanted to hear the rationalization of the person who made the post I quoted in the OP. I utterly reject trying to tie any sort of racialism or tribalism into Christianity. This includes sinful heresies such as British Israelism and Christian Identity.
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ametist
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you will be more disadvantaged when compared with others who are the breeds of a greater gene group that survived and endured larger variety of situations. the more the variety the better the cultural understanding and physical endurance-health in the long run.
my god advices that we learn from each other, that is the reason we are created in different races-cultures. we get close and learn from each other.
my god advices that we learn from each other, that is the reason we are created in different races-cultures. we get close and learn from each other.
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There's no scientific basis to what you said. Humans don't come in different "breeds" and there's more variation within groups than between. What would be called "race" is the difference between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals and we mated with them and with other human species all around the globe but there are no "races" within Homo sapiens. All humans are hybrids.
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