Christians: Are you against a white and black person getting married?

Question

Christians used to use the Bible to keep whites and blacks from marrying each other just like they use it now against gays. Are you against black and white people marrying each other or only restricting the rights of homosexuals?

Answer 1

The Bible doesn't say it is against this kind of relationship....Even Sampson loved foreign women.... the only people that didn't like it, were his own people.....

as a Christian, I am against any people laying with animals....


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Answer 2

What scripture do Christians specifically use to keep Whites and Blacks from marrying each other? Because, last time I checked, there is no such scritpure.

The Apostle Peter in Acts 10:34, 35 said "For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial, [v35] but in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him." If God is not partial, then why should Christians be? That would be in violation of God's Word.

People have this notion that homosexuals have the same rights. Oh really! Last time I checked, God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. A whole nation was destroyed (Sodom and Gomorrah) because of the homosexuality that was taken place. In fact, that is where that term "sodomy" came from. It was only 10 to 20 years ago that homos were not open about their sexuality nor was homosexuality considered right among the common people. How is it that all of a sudden, it is now right? Why wasn't it right before? Why is it right in 2006 and not in 1996? What changed?

1 Corinthians 6:9, 10 says "What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, [v10] nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom.

It is not about restricting the rights of homosexuals, but rather the fact that it is condemned in the Bible. Period. End of stoy. Yet, this is a debate. According to society, homosexuality is all right, but priests involved in homosexual practices is detestable. Make up your mind. You cannot have it both ways. The Bible (God's Inspired Word) says homosexuality is wrong. What human has the authority to overstep God's Word and say that it is all right? Who?

Malachi 3:6 says, “For I am Jehovah; I have not changed." Neither has his laws. However, the problem is that human rulers have taken it upon themselves to change those laws set forth in God' Word. How sad?

Now, regarding marriage, I have no problems with an African-American person marrying a White person. Were we made just to love our own kind? Just imagine if every house, building, person, animal, school, job, place, street, car and anything else were the same. How dull of a life that would be. Jehovah God loves variety and therefore created it. Why shouldn't we enjoy the variety that God has provided. Variety was created for our enjoyment. As long as we do not use the variety that we have for improper purposes. There is no set law that says that we can only marry inside our race. Love is amazing! Love is colorless!Tell me where that is in the Bible. Don't search too hard because it is not cited.

If you just take a walk in your biggest city, there are so many interracial marriages. Love spreads all around. There is a lot of history, which is why there are a large number of people who are against Whites marrying Blacks. I love interracial marriages. It gives you the chance to widen out and learn about another's culture. We have variety all among us, why not take advantage of it.

Answer 3

im my life i have never ever heard of racial discrimination in this manner by any christian

i dont know how it is possible to use the bible to keep whites and blacks from marrying, in actual fact i know many mixed race couples within all the churchs i have ever visited

i have read it several times and have no idea how that is possible

if it is true its a massive distortion of the teachings of jesus, and as i cant see how you could even distort it to that, a complete fabrication

as for the homosexual stance of the varying churchs
that one is debabtable too
you will find there are many homosexual people within the church and more often than not they are ministers

while the catholic church does not condone homosexual behaviours
i have yet to meet a christian that was so deluded that they persecuted homosexuals
personally i know about five homosexual priests and many many more homosexual lay christians
the behaviour may not be condoned by the chruch
just as promiscuity, violence or drug consumption arent
or indeed any behaviours that do not respect the temple of the body as the sacred home of the soul

but i have never ever heard of the church condoning an individual or forcing them to restrict thier rights
christianity and the christian way of life is a choice

the church welcomes all people with open arms
and while it may suggest behaviours
it does not demand them

many homosexual christians, like straight ones
choose a life of chasitity, instead of promiscuity
this is a personal choice based on a desire to spiritualise the consciousness

either way, sinner or saint, the church if it follows the teachings of jesus, loves all and judges none

Answer 4

I think it is misleading how this has been framed as a battle over equal rights. Gay people have the same rights that I do... I could not marry a woman if I wanted to either, you know. It's really a battle over the definition of marriage. Marriage is currently defined in this country as the union of one man and one woman, the new definition is any two people who love each other.

The bible teaches that is no such thing as "marriage" between anyone other than one man and one woman. Marriage is an institution created by God which goes back to the beginning of time when he created them male and female and he said that a man would leave his father and mother and join with his wife and the two would become one flesh.

Jesus reiterated this definition of marriage when people asked him about divorce. They asked him if divorce was ok and he basically said no, marriage is a lifetime commitment, the complete joining of a man and a woman for a lifetime. He said if you're not interested in making a lifetime commitment, marriage is not for you.

Jesus never makes a statement about different races not marrying each other, the only statement about who you are allowed to marry is that a Christian must marry another Christian. This serves the same function as the Israelites not marrying anyone but Israelites - it was because of their spiritual heritage, not because of their race. This is demostrated by the fact that when non-Jews joined the Jewish culture and accepted the Lord as their God, they intermarried with Jews. Some of them (Notably Ruth for example) were ancestors of Jesus Christ.

I know this is a tough issue and theoretically I understand where you are coming from - why can't two beings who love each other experience sexual intimacy and the joys of marriage regardless of their physical packaging? I prayed about it sincerely, I read every verse in the bible about homosexuality and I came to this conclusion: homosexuality is not God's best plan for the human race. Our bodies were not designed for this, if we were all meant to be sexually interchangable, there would not be two different sexes. I believe God could have made one sex or 3 or 8 but he chose two and he defined marriage the way he did. I believe homosexuality is a sin in that it is "not hitting the bullseye" of God's perfect plan for our lives (this is what sin means - missing the mark of perfection) - but no more so than lying or stealing or divorce etc. It is just another way that broken people cope with living in a broken world...

Answer 5

Doesn't seem to be anything in the Bible about mixing races except in the Old Testament God told the Jews not to inter-marry. The Bible is totally clear that a believer is absolutely not to marry an unbeliever. However, these days people never think of the children. I believe it is harder for children when they are from a mixed home, interracial marriage etc. But for some reason everyone just seems to focus on what they want, not even thinking about children.

Answer 6

If we were all created in the image of God then why would it be a problem for people of different colors, or races or of the same sex to marry. To say that it is wrong would be to say that God was wrong in creating them that way. After all, He is all knowing, and he created us the way that we are. If He didnt want something to happen, he wouldnt allow it. If we would all worry less about what someone else is doing, and just live, this world would have a lot less problems.

What did gmcfayden mean with the animal comment? That could be horribly misinterrpreted and I prefer to think the best of people but...

Answer 7

I have no idea. Christians bash the Pagans, yet don't hesitate to take part in Pagan Holidays. Many, if not ALL of the american holidays that are celebrated today were created by Pagans. Christmas is even a Pagan holiday! True Christianity does not promote the observance of ANY holidays whatsoever. We are to observe nothing or mark the time with any celebratory event. NOT EVEN YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY!!!! For more about this, see Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs and laws of the faith.

Answer 8

Never met any. I have seen pink and brown people marry, but not white and black.

As for the rights of Gays, if you're going to fight for the rights of those born with non-heterosexual genes, what about those born sexually attracted to children, animals, and the dead? Shouldn't it be equal rights for all, not just selected groups? And what about asexuals? They are denied the savings and other benefits of married people. Shouldn't bisexuals be allowed to marry both a man and woman, at the same time? They are denied the benefits granted married couples by the limits on marrying more than one person at a time.

Is your fight for equality going to be so limited?

Answer 9

you are right-- there was a time ppl used the bible to "show" that interacial maariage was forbidden-- in the OT the israelites were forbidden to marry outside their race--not so much because of color, but it seemed every time they did they took on the religion(s) of the pagans....as a nonfundamentalist christian i have no real opinion on whether gays should be able to marry or not--but i am also not totally convinced gays should have their own "special" rights...

Answer 10

There is nothing in the Bible that forbids Christians from intermarrying between races. Through Christ we are under grace, not the law. Even under the OT law, what examples do exist are prohibitions from marrying into unbelieving or apostate cultures and societies that lived apart from God.

The only New Testament prohibition against marriage is that believers are to marry unbelievers. If an unbeliever, already being married, comes to faith, he or she is to remain married to his or her non-believing spouse as long as that spouse does not leave the relationship.

None of this has anything to do with homosexuality - on this the Bible is clear. A couple NT verses of note:

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
- Romans 26-27 (Full context: Romans 18-32)

This is God's word, plain and simple. We can justify our actions or ignore what God says - in fact our disobedience is prophesied throughout scripture. This applies to homosexuality as well as every other sin explained in and around these passages. And while we all struggle with sin, remember that Christ said that if we love Him, we will keep his commands. When we fail, we are to ask for forgiveness and humbly seek repentance from our sins, not justification. Jesus is the living savior, not a "get out of jail free card".

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
- 2 Timothy 4:3

For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!" Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.
- Jude 1:4, 8-10

We're free to do whatever we want and legislate as we wish, but we will be called on it when we stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. Going back to Genesis, marriage is between man and woman - there is no other definition and no other way. Further, *everyone* in America, Christian or not, is fully free to marry as marriage is understood and defined. The issue is not restricting the "rights" of homosexuals, it is about redefining marriage. If the voters (not unelected courts) want to do that, fine - but the church is under no compulsion or obligation to recognize, endorse or in any condone such arrangements as they are not part of God's plan.

Answer 11

I am aChristian and I have to say...no !!!! I am not against it in any way. My cousin has been married twice to white men who treated her awful. She then found a black man who is also a Christian and is the best thing to happen to her. It thrills me the love they have for one another