i heard the bible is against mixing races is this true .?

Question

many deaths were the result of gods unhappiness with race mixing and even mentions killing them .Numbers 25;1-8 describes this and many others . why does god hate me for being dark skinned

Answer 1

STRANGE question were you trying to evoke a responce of some kind for being dark skinned .HMMMMMMM

Answer 2

Numbers 25:1-8 says absolutely nothing about the skin color of any of the parties in question. The big issue with 'mixing' has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with a given nation's propensity for worshiping pagan gods - so that 'not mixing' was a measure designed to prevent the Jewish people from going astray and worshiping any other God except the one true God. See Deuteronomy 7:1-4 for details of exactly which nations are forbidden for intermarriage purposes, and why they are forbidden.

The New Testament, on the other hand, says the following:

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. (Colossians 3:9-11)

Notice here that Paul mentions ways that people of the time used to categorize people:

Jewish vs. non-Jewish (or circumcised vs. uncircumcised - amounts to the same thing), which would have been a typically Jewish way of thinking;

slave vs. free (which would have been a distinction important in Greek and Roman culture).

Then, additionally, he mentions barbarians and Scythians. These were two categories of people who were considered very low on the totem pole in the culture of the day. A barbarian was a person who did not speak Greek (and therefore was lacking in civilization), and Scythians were a particular kind of foreigner -'known especially for their brutality and [...] considered by others as little better than wild beasts.'(1)

So these last were the 'n*****s', 'ch***s', 'sp**s', etc. of those times. And Paul is writing, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that God does not make these kinds of distinctions of nationality, language or race. What is important is what He has done through Jesus' freewill offering of Himself - redemption for all persons, regardless of nationality, language, race or any other human distinction(2).

Anyone who wants can have that offering applied to him/her and find that redemption. All that is required is faith(3) - a faith that will receive the truths believed in and allow them to transform the believer's life(4).

May God bless you with knowledge of His love for you that surpasses all knowledge, and may that knowledge transform your life.(5)

Answer 3

no

there is only one race, the human race which comes in one color, melanin... many shades one color

the notion there are more than one race is what leads to racism... you are equivocating an ethic group with a relgion with a general race statement.. Jews are both a religoin and ethnicity.. and it doesnt really apply to the issues you say

In the end what you see is a principle where God not wanting people who believe and follow Him to be married to people who do not ... its more to do with faith than ethnicity... on the other hand there is alot of forgiveness ot go around and we all make many many mistakes

truth is there is fairly good reason to believe Moses married a black woman (a cushite ... ie Etheopian) showing it was a religous issue not an ethnic issue

and the curse of Ham.?? geee... if curses got you down... happily Jesus died to lift the curses... NO MORE let sin nor sorry reign nor thornes in fect the ground He comes to make his righteousness FAR AS THE CURSE IS FOUND

and slavery??? Jesus become a prisoner and a slave. The Son of man did not come to be served but to serve and give his life a ransome for sin Mark 10:45 why not let Jesus serve you so you can serve God acceptably as a free man (or woman)

Answer 4

The way I understood this scripture was that God wasn't unhappy because they were mixed race, He was unhappy because they were worshiping another god. (Baal) God doesn't look at our skin color. He sees our hearts, not our outward appearance. He loves you no matter what color your skin is. He made you! He doesn't make mistakes. God is unhappy when people discriminate and hate because of skin color. He doesn't do it. Jesus was not a light skinned man. And I'm pretty sure God loves His own Son. I think in the bible when God is angry with the people, it is because they have went off with people and worshiped another god, not because of the different race.

Answer 5

Welcome to the club, that is my local.

The Hamitic Myth is derived from the Biblical story of Noah. Taken alone as presented in Genesis 9:21-27, the characters are without a racial or geographical identity. It is the later interpretation of this race/religion/nation-neutral parable which assigned the curse specifically to the Black race such that by 1460 the institution of slavery would be universally believed to be the lot of the Africans.

Evidence locates the origin of these racist elaborations with the Jewish Babylonian Talmud.

The Hamitic Myth itself has also taken on at least one other form in relation to Blackness (other versions have made Ham into a white man). Once Europeans saw evidence of the great African civilizations, they hastened to reinterpret the Hamitic Myth to suggest that the Hamites were in fact Europeans [!] who went into Africa bringing this civilization with them. This version of the Myth satisfied their academic needs--and was used when necessary by Jewish academics like C.G. Seligman among others. But, for the most part, their economic, social, religious, and political needs were met in the global promotion of the original rabbinical version.


Bible Verses Used as Justification of Slavery
1 Chron. 18:11; 2 Sam. 20:23 (foreign mercenaries)
Josh. 9:21-27; Num. 31:26-47 (hewers of wood...)
2 Kings 5:20-27 (only other Biblical curse with skin change--to white)
Jesus had Canaanite blood; 1 of the 12 Apostles was a Canaanite (Mat 10:4)
Gen 17:13; Lev 25:24, 42-6 (condone slavery; 2 types of slavery)
Exod 20:10, 17 (protects slaves)
Matt 8:5-13 (accepts slavery)
Eph 6:5-9; Col 3:22-4:1; I Tim 6:3-4 (Paul approves slavery)

Answer 6

Numbers 25:1-8
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women, who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate and bowed down before these gods. So Israel joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor. And the LORD's anger burned against them. The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD's fierce anger may turn away from Israel." So Moses said to Israel's judges, "Each of you must put to death those of your men who have joined in worshiping the Baal of Peor." Then an Israelite man brought to his family a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and into the woman's body. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped
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OK, Copies and pasted, but where does it mention killing other races? This is marrying women who worship other gods not about the color of their skin................
If that were a problem, why would Ruth (a Moabite woman) in the line that led to Christ??

Answer 7

Only if you don't read about God defending Moses' marriage with an Ethiopian woman. Or the fact that a Canaanite woman was a direct ancestor of Jesus Christ.

What the bible actually spoke against was mingling with unbelievers (including Romans - who would be pale skinned), not races or skin hues.

Answer 8

that isn't true, what God was angry about was Jews taking pagan women as wives,and then being led off to worship false Gods. It wasn't the color of ones skin, but the Godliness or lack. In the Song of Soloman, it's pretty clear that the lovers are dark. God would never hate you because of the color of your skin. In Numbers 25, the whole chapter doesn't say anything about skin color.

Answer 9

God does not hate interracial relationships. I forget how Solomon expressed it, but, to judge from The Song of Solomon, the only wife he actually loved didn't reflect a lot of light.

God also does not hate black people or anyone else. An insanely stupid theological concept called The Curse of Hamm grew at one point claiming that Hammitic people (blacks) were suffering due to their forefather Hamm having peeked at his father Noah while he was drunk and naked. No actual text supports this idea though, and no bible scholars take it seriously at all.

Answer 10

God prohibited Israel from intermarrying with the other nations because of their perverted religious practices. It had nothing to do with race.

"Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin." (Nehemiah 13:26)

Answer 11

those verses have nothing to do with race mixing......


those verses are talking about israelites and moabites hooking up......the reason that was mentioned is because the two held different beliefs (moabites worshipped false idols) and God had said for the Israelites to stay away because he didn't want them being wrongly influenced