Reader comment:
The
Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, clearly forbids miscegenation (mixture of
races). Miscegenation is equally detrimental to members of all human racial
demographics. The hysterical minions of the politically correct masses will
still consider this to be "racism" but the evil, self-indulgent whims
of their idolatrous, "multi-cultural" democracies do not decide my
values: The God of the holy Bible, HIS only begotten son, and HIS Torah
constitute my moral compass.
Our response:
While
it is commendable that you desire to adhere to YHWH and His Scriptures, we can't
find one single passage in the Bible that "clearly forbids
miscegenation." Some of the references that miscegenation proponents
attempt to show as "proof" of miscegenation include the following:
Exodus
34: 10 He said, "Here, I am making a covenant; in front of all your people
I will do wonders such as have not been created anywhere on earth or in any
nation. All the people around you will see the work of ADONAI. What I am going
to do through you will be awesome! 11 Observe what I am ordering you to do
today. Here! I am driving out ahead of you the Emori, Kena'ani, Hitti, P'rizi,
Hivi and Y'vusi. 12 Be careful not to make a covenant with the people living in
the land where you are going, so that they won't become a snare within your own
borders.
13
Rather, you are to demolish their altars, smash their standing-stones and cut
down their sacred poles; 14 because you are not to bow down to any other god;
since ADONAI -whose very name is Jealous -is a jealous God. 15 Do not make a
covenant with the people living in the land. It will cause you to go astray
after their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Then they will invite you to join
them in eating their sacrifices, 16 and you will take their daughters as wives
for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves to their own gods and
make your sons do the same! (CJB)
Is
the above talking about "races"? No! It's talking about refraining from paganism!
YHWH's concern was that marrying outside the faith would cause Israel to turn
away from God. The command is similar to what we read in the below: 2
Corinthians 6: 14 Do not yoke yourselves together in a team with unbelievers.
For how can righteousness and lawlessness be partners? What fellowship does
light have with darkness? (CJB)
1
Corinthians 7: 39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives, but if
the husband dies she is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a
believer in the Lord. (CJB)
When
read in context we see that Scripture never tells us that we cannot engage
in interracial marriage; but rather, they clearly refer to the shunning of
PAGANISM. Whenever a father says to a son, "Promise me you won't marry a
___ woman..." he is referring to the fact that she and her people do not
believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It had nothing to do with race
- and if it did, then it was because of prejudice, not because of any command
from YHWH.
Plus,
if you'll remember, Moshe (Moses) married an Ethiopean woman....You can twist
that scripture until you're blue in the face, but Ethiopeans - especially
thousands of years ago - were NOT white people! Numbers 12:1 Miryam and Aharon
began criticizing Moshe on account of the Ethiopian woman he had married, for he
had in fact married an Ethiopian woman.
YHWH
created all races and they ALL originated from Havah (Eve), the "mother of
all living" (Gen. 3:20), which means Adam and Havah must have had children
of all colors and "races" (and then again, Noah, whose family
repopulated the Earth) who ultimately congregated with their "own
kind" and went off to various parts of the world. It is ludicrous to think
that Africans became black - as some suggest - just because they lived in a
warm climate. If that's the case, then how come Black people who have lived in
the U.S., for instance, for two hundred years, aren't "devolving" and
becoming white? Or how come Australia (which is hot) has a huge population of
Whites who have never, over hundreds of years, turned Black? Or how do we
explain the fact that Orientals have slanted eyes? Did the climate or
conditions in China and Japan and Thailand cause that?
The
bottom line is, we won't know for sure all the answers to these questions until
we get our eternal bodies. Until then, all we can do is speculate. But anyone
who has read the Bible through the help of the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) can
understand that YHWH never told us not to fall in love with, or refrain from
marrying someone of another race.
Thanks for addressing that topic. That is very helpful.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! We never cease to be amazed at the ways people attempt to twist Scripture!
DeleteWhich is exactly why I answer the "race" question on the US Census: "Other: Human"
ReplyDeleteWhite is a color, not a race. Black is a color, not a race. "Hispanic" is an ethnic group, not a race. Asian is a locale, not a race.
You nailed it, sister!
Thank you! We agree!
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