What does the Bible say about marrying someone outside of my race?

Answer 1

outside of the human race?

Answer 2

If you want to use the Bible as a point of reference, then you should know that according to the Bible we are all 1 race ... the Human Race. As far as I can recall, there is no separation among people according to the teachings of Christ concerning this issue. So as long as you marry a human you'll be doing the right thing ;).

If you mean marrying outside of your faith (ie Jewish, Hindu, Catholic) then I doubt the Bible says anything about that since one of the main teachings of the Bible is to Love one another. If everything you do is based on this Law, then again, you can't go wrong. We all belong to the Lord, regardless of how we worship, and who we marry. If you're concerned about doing what is "proper" in the eyes of your family, friends and bretheren, then you will find the best answers from discussions with them. Good Luck in whatever you decide to do!

Answer 3

Nothing. I believe it was Noah, he was a white man who married a black woman. The bible don't condemn anything other than same sex.

The Bible does not explicitly give us the origin of the different "races" or skin colors of humanity. In actuality, there is only one race - the human race. Within the human race is a great amount of diversity in skin color and other physical characteristics. Some speculate that when God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), He also instituted racial diversity. It is possible that God made genetic changes to humanity to better enable people to survive in different ecologies, such as Africans being better "equipped" genetically to survive the excessive heat in Africa. According to this view, God confused the languages, causing humanity to segregate linguistically, and then created genetic racial differences based on where each racial group would eventually settle, geographically. While possible, there is no explicit Biblical basis for this view. The races / skin color of humanity are nowhere mentioned in connection with the Tower of Babel.



After the flood, when the different languages came into existence, groups that spoke one language moved away with others of the same language. In doing so, the gene pool for a specific group shrunk dramatically as they no longer had the entire human population to mix with. Closer inbreeding took place, and in time certain features were emphasized in these different groups (ALL of which were present as a possibility in the gene code). As further inbreeding occurred through the generations, the gene pool got smaller and smaller, to the point that people of one language family all had the same or similar features, and it would be a rarity when a different feature arose.



Another explanation is that Adam and Eve possessed the genes to produce black, brown, and white offspring (and everything else in between). This would be similar to how a mixed-race couple often has children that vary greatly in color from one another. Since God obviously desired humanity to be diverse in appearance, it makes sense that God would have given Adam and Eve the ability to produce children of different skin tones. Later, the only survivors of the Flood were Noah and his wife, Noah’s three sons and their wives, eight people in all (Genesis 7:13). Perhaps Shem’s, Ham’s, or Japheth’s wives were of different races. It is possible that Noah’s wife was of a different race than Noah. Maybe all 8 of them were of mixed race, which would mean that they possessed the genetics to produce children of different races. Whatever the explanation, the most important aspect of this question is that we are all the same race, all created by the same God, all created for the same purpose.

Answer 4

Only for the Jews when they were still growing in numbers and God's warning even to Solomon that if he marries anyone outside their belief or race would result to having commit himself to other Gods which truly happened to him. And god was not happy with that. This present generation is no longer applying that except for some few who still believe in that old tradition.

Answer 5

I don't think the bible speaks on that. God made everyone so therefore I don't think he would have any objections about you marrying someone outside your race.

Answer 6

Outside the human race?? What's up with that, are you believing in extraterrestrials?
The Bible never mentions that stuff. You funny.

Answer 7

Yeah, don't marry outside the human race. ;O) There is nothing about marrying someone of another color.

Answer 8

you should not marry anyone outside the human race everything else depends on love of two people.

Answer 9

the bible is a set of compiled stories of ancient times written by many prophets ,it doesn't state such laws as who to marry from what race or from what religion and such earthly matters about marriage, inheritance or relations ....For the christians :veryone believing in Jesus is a christian and should be baptized..

Answer 10

Nothing. Its only parameter is that a man should marry a woman, and that they be of the same heart and mind, to be equally "yoked". What that really means is that you should both be believers, and on the same path.

good luck