does it say anywhere in the bible that races shouldnt mix someone told me this and it sounds dumb ?

Question

can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Answer 1

No it does not.
I would ask the person to show you this. Then laugh as they try to find it. I bet you they tell you that they will look later and let you know..

Answer 2

Israelites were discouraged from marrying gentiles to prevent the foreign spouse from luring the Jewish spouse away from the One True God. It's not a directive for racial segregation, but for religious segregation. Ezra took the directive to extremes--perhaps too far.

Incredibly, Ezra's divinely appointed remedy was for the Jewish men to callously abandon their wives and children. Reminds me of that school principle in Alabama a while back who mandated racially a segregated prom. When a biracial student asked what she should do, the principle told her that she was a mistake.

Numbers also describes problems with inheritance that could arise with intertribal marriages--again, not a racial directive.

Hmmm..., it seems that while my Internet was down, everyone else came up with more or less the same answer that i did. Looks like you have something to show your acquaintance, hcj.

@Loves Yeshua Meshiyach - What is it that the atheists say? I know of many that claim the Bible condones slavery, but i don't recall any claiming that the Bible is racist. If anyone, it is a subset of *Christians* who preach the "descendents of Ham" nonsense.

@dewcoons - Yes, Moses and Ruth came to my mind, too.

Answer 3

To my knowledge, there is no passage in the Bible that makes a comment about people's races. Even in the sequence regarding the tower of Babel where God caused people to not understand what each other said, it does not refer to races but to languages. People from different communities in the old days did not often associate with one another because of religious or land differences but again not because of a persons skin color. So, as you say...it is dumb.

Answer 4

That cannot be found in the holy scriptures. As a matter of fact, there is a scripture in Acts 17:26 states:

"And He made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the surface of the earth."

God is not partial, he shows no favoritism based on race because all are the same, because all came from Adam.

Answer 5

It never explicitly says that people of two different races should not marry, but it does recommend that people of two different religions/beliefs should not marry (mainly a Christian/Jew cannot marry a pagan), and paganism was associated with other races, because of the obvious cultural differences in different regions. This mixed with racism and prejudices of the human race, and wallah, you've got a steadfast "rule" that is nowhere to be found in the Bible.

Answer 6

It wasn't so much that it said that races shouldn't mix, however, it did mention not marrying Canaanite and other people. The reason wasn't due to race so much as it was due to the fact that these people followed a different religion.

King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh (Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites), from nations with which the LORD had forbidden the Israelites to intermarry, "because," he said, "they will turn your hearts to their gods." But Solomon fell in love with them. (King I:1-3)

"Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned...Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women" (Nehemiah 13:26-27
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Answer 7

I plan on marrying somebody of a distinctive race while i'm (commonly) white/Caucasian. optimistically, that pronounces what i've got self belief. I mean, such incredibly a number of the folk of the OT married into different races. I even heard a rumor that Jesus replaced into related to an African princess. i'm desirous approximately marriages of distinctive peoples and cultures and when I say people, I mean, anybody. Gender isn't an inhibiting factor for marriage. yet i know the way it truly is, recently. we are nonetheless getting over the racist hump that we had such incredibly some an prolonged time in the past. when I went to Church, I knew a woman who asked me if it replaced into okay to this point a black guy. She did no longer inquire from me on a biblical foundation yet on a cultural foundation by using fact interior the south, you're nonetheless appeared down on for relationship or marrying a guy or woman of yet another race than your man or woman. I felt truly undesirable for her by using fact she did date a black guy and gained complaint by using fact she replaced right into a mild, freckled, redhead. Race is a boundary that we create and it truly is something we enable to exist. i've got seen movies on youtube the place racists attempt to justify their place with good judgment and it does not artwork it out by using fact there's no justifying the detest or mistreatment of yet another race...no count if that "race" is of colour or sexuality or gender or despite you could conceive.

Answer 8

The Bible says that we should not be unequally yoked and then they read into that that races shouldn't mix....they are forgetting that the Bible was written to Christians (followers of Christ) not a particular 'race' and read in that context...we should not married to a non-believer.

Answer 9

There is no law anywhere in the Bible against races mixing. It does forbid marriage between people who belief in God and those who do not. Since the Jewish people were believes in God, and the other nations around them were not, God forbid intermarriage between them. But it was based on faith, not race.

In fact, Moses was married to a non-Jewish woman. His sister Miriam, when she learned about it, objected to her because she was of another race. God made Miriam a leper as punishment for objecting to the interracial marriage. It was not till she repented that she was healed.

Two of Jesus ancestors were inter-racially married. One to the Moabite woman Ruth, for whom an entire book of the Bible is named.

Answer 10

Alright i used to be Chrisitianity and i read the bible over 14 times and No races can mix will mix and it already happened. Also every1s race wehter it be white, black, asian they were all 1 race (i didnt include mexicans because they are asians and whites, cus asians are indians and mexicans are indians and whites) Also their are different races only because of where you live, The whites lived far away from the equator so their skin doesnt change color (skin helps control heat because dark skin reflects heat while white skin takes in heat).

Answer 11

What they were probably speaking of is when the Israelites were told not to marry the people of the nations but only from their own nation, Levitical Law. This was a protection for the Israelites as they were under Theocratic Rule, meaning, they were being ruled by God himself as he handed down the laws to them. The surrounding nations worshiped pagans gods and gods of stone,wood, and metal, not the living God. A good example of what could happen and did was Solomon the king of Israel, he married many foreign wives and they enticed him away from Jehovah his God. Today a similar rule applies to Christians, although we can marry persons of other nations, we should marry only in the Lord, persons of your own faith, Christians to Christians so as not to be drawn away from your Lord.