Is God supposed to be against Interracial relationships?

Question

I was watching a silly film recently where an invisible man was pretending to be Satan to some catholics, he mentioned he was behind interracial relationships. I just wonder if it mentions anywhere in the bible about interracial relationsips being wrong. I have no problem with it myself as I am in one, but I'm curios to know what the bible says about it.

Answer 1

There is a little known passage in the Bible where Miriam, the sister of Moses, mocks Moses' wife, who is of a different (darker) race. She spoke against her brother for having married a woman of Ethiopian race. She and Aaron tried to use this as a reason to take leadership away from Moses. Miriam was punished by being cursed with leprosy for 7 days, shut out of the encampment. Do you see the irony? Leprosy turns the flesh "white as snow". I believe Miriam was being punished not only for rebelling against Moses, but for her prejudice toward his wife.

Answer 2

Silly Film is correct.

We are all part of the HUMAN race.

Now, it is interesting to find.........regardless of where you might be:

Black Churches
White Churches

Now, there was a bit of separation early on in the first century because the Jews, according to Paul were "entrusted with the sacred pronouncements of God." -Romans 3:2

Not long after that the Jews and the Gentiles were joined together in congregations. The eunuch that Phillip helped to teach and convert was most likely a black man, being from Ethiopia.

The point is that early on the congregations were not necessarily separated by race, yet we see great division today among nominal "Christians".

The only organization that I see which is truly united in all aspects would be Jehovah's Witnesses. They are truly colorblind as they know that God looks at the heart, not the skin color.

Notice that because of the early faith of Abraham "all the families of the ground will certainly bless themselves."
-Genesis 28:14 (See Galatians 3:8; Acts 3:25)

No separation of any kind here!

Answer 3

Sorry, not a direct answer to the question but rather a response to 'Wilchy':

I'm mixed race and while not exactly offended by your answer, I would like to point out that Black people and White people are not different 'species'. All human beings, black, white, Asian etc. are one species - Homo Sapiens. The same species that evolved in Africa (from probably black ancestors). The fact that we CAN intermarry and have fertile offspring proves this - it is in fact how species are determined. Black people and White people are just people of different colours - the same way you can breed black and white cats to each other, they're the same species. Two animals of different species, even if they do mate will not produce fertile young (if they produce young at all). For example, if a horse and a donkey breed you will get a mule. The mule is sterile and cannot reproduce on its own. A mixed race human child is not sterile because its parents are the same species. The colour of our skin is a tiny variation on a few genes, the same way hair and eye colour or height or whether or not you can roll your tongue are!

If your theory was true, everyone would be a different species to everyone else - white people would be a different species to black people, blond people a different species to dark haired people, brown eyes a different species to blue, people whose earlobes hang free would be a different species to people whose earlobes are attached to their heads and none of us would be able to breed with any others! The human race would be extinct. The fact is that the variations in our genes are not enough to make us anything close to being different species in the same way that we are all, clearly, a different species to chimpanzees.

I'm not arguing that mixing races mixes genes, of course it does (this is a good thing - check out inbreeding if you don't believe me!) but I question the use of the word 'species' because, as I said there is only one scientifically classified species of humans - homo sapiens - and that's all of us. Also, it's hard to define 1 White + 1 Black. Humans have been wandering, trading and interbreeding for millennia, we're probably all a little mixed so there's not really that many people who are 100% anything anymore - not genetically anyway!

Does God accept interracial relationships? He's not done anything to stop them in tens of thousands of years!

Answer 4

This is a long answer, but it is worth it if you read it all the way through

I dont recall anything about interracial relationships in the Bible, anywhere. It doesnt mention race a whole lot, other than religious races. Jews, Roman religion believers, Egyptian religion believers.
But if you take a good look at these types of relationships, what you wont find is God. What you will find is evolution. For example:
Not to offend anyone, there is a new race of human being alive today that werent here 200 years ago(or at least not many) Who? Simplest terms?
1 white male and one white female = 1 white child
1 black male and 1 black female = 1 black child
Although they are both human beings and both 99.99999999% the same, there are different genes and such that make these two spieces different.

With me so far? Trying to keep this simple so it doesnt sound stupid. This is basic biology here.

So, what happens if you take:

1 black male and 1 white female? You get on racially mixed child. The genes of the white and black mixed creating a different speicies of human. An offshoot of the "family tree", so to speak. This mixed child is also a 99.9999999% match to every other human beings genes but they are slightly different then both the black and white parents.
Then what happens if this child has a child with, oh, lets say, an aisian person. Then you get an entirely new species of human. Still a genetic match but slightly different.

Understand? What that too complicated?
You can see how evolution works everyday. Open your eyes and your mind and look. .

Answer 5

There is a verse in the NT that many use to put this square peg answer into the round hole question. Thing is it does answer it many times.

"Be not unequally joined together."

This can be the true if you consider the problems associated with a couple who are of different, religions, races, social status or political views.

I have had friends in inter-racial relationships or marriges who told me how both of their families made their life difficult.
Another, who's marrige ended because he wasn't able to keep up with the financial quota of her family. One of my best and dearest friends, met and married a woman in a whrilwind romance which ended almost as fast, when she found out he voted republican, was for the death penalty, and againest abortion. Alot can be said for this tiny verse in or out of context. The truth lies in how a couple fits in the relationship triangle.
We are being of three points on a triangle so to speak. One is physical. one is psycological, and the last is spiritual.

If our relation connects only on the one point of physical (we like each others body, hair, eyes etc...) it is a very weak link.

If on the other hand we connect with two points. physiacl and psycological (we like the same movies, books, political views, etc...) then we have a stronger link than just one point.

Put two triangles together and you will see that two point joins an entire side together. However the only way to join all three points is by placing the triangel together so it appears as one. We are joined as one (where did I hear that before) And that is a difficult union to break.

Answer 6

Yes that why its silly, I mean God says nothing against it in the bible about interracial relationship, Just another movie telling you evil is behind something completely natural to mix your mind up.

Answer 7

Good question! Does God have a published stance on the union between humans and creatures of another race? I'd like to know just in case I ever hook-up with a hot Martian betty.

Not that I care, I'm just curious.

Answer 8

No God is not against interracial marriages.
He does have something to say about being "unevenly yoked" which means of different religious backgrounds, and that, through the ages, may have come to be construed as interracial since often people of different races are also from different religious backgrounds.

Answer 9

I do not believe the Bible has a mention of interracial relationships.

Answer 10

I think that was just a film, i do not think that God is against interracial relationships, and I am in big troublt if he is