Theres this guy thats black and i really like him and he really likes me but right now we can't be togather. I want to know if its in the bible for sure if we do get to be togather becuase he is a great guy and would do anything for me.
2007-08-20 09:43:02 · 15 answers · asked by Tana c 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Date whoever you want.
2007-08-20 09:49:57 · answer #1 · answered by §αғịỳỳẩ² Ẫ†нэậ†ị 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
personally, i don't see why something being written in some old book that's been raped and redone so many times by so many people over so many centuries should have any affect on how you live your life and what personal decisions you make. the bible advocates killing people for minor 'crimes'--would you honestly stone someone to death for nothing just because some old book says so? i don't know if there is anything in the bible about that or not, but there certainly shouldn't be. race is no grounds for choosing not to be with someone. it means nothing more than cultural/geographical family history and/or skin colour, and neither of those things should ever be allowed to get in the way of a loving relationship. i think it would be very silly not to date someone just because you think the bible might for some ridiculous reason or other say that you shouldn't date outside your own race. the guy simply has a different ethnicity than you, not a different species. if you really like him and he really likes you, you shouldn't let something so petty and unimportant get between you. i say go for it.
2007-08-20 09:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by killer_ballerina 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not. In fact God punished Abraham's sister with leprosy because she was prejudice against Moses' wife who was Arab and had darker skin. We are all different shades and different colors but are the same species. All white people are not the exact same color and neither are blacks so the whole race thing is ridiculous. There is no reason why people of different colors can't be together.
2007-08-20 10:21:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament law commanded the Israelites not to engage in interracial marriage (Deuteronomy 7:3-4). The reason for this is that the Israelites would be led astray from God if they intermarried with idol worshippers, pagans, or heathens. A similar principle is laid out in the New Testament, but at a much different level: “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14). Just as the Israelites (believers in the one true God) were commanded not to marry nonbelievers, so Christians (believers in the one true God) are commanded not to marry unbelievers.
But the bible is nonsense, written contemporaneously with "Aesop's Fables" to teach ignorant people basic morals...What color a person is has NO bearing on their character! If he's a good guy, keep him, & drop the bible!
Remember, the Holy Bible is the book that says you should stone your family TO DEATH if they aren't believers!
"If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you ... Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die." -- Dt.13:6-10
2007-08-20 09:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The codified racism in the Bible only places a limit on who members of the Jewish race can marry. It doesn't apply to anyone else.
2007-08-20 09:49:26 · answer #5 · answered by wondermus 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
The only suggestion of that idea was not to keep races apart, but that God's chosen people (Hebrews) would not intermarry with pagans. Otherwise, race was never an issue.
2007-08-20 09:51:20 · answer #6 · answered by TroothBTold 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stop reading so much into it. That was written in the Old Testament mainly for the Jewish faith and not to be taken so literally.
2007-08-20 09:52:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believers aren't to marry unbelievers.
a note:
There is more acceptance today.There is still some places not so accepting.Children can be mistreated that are mixed.
2007-08-20 11:35:28 · answer #8 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... It just says "do not be unequally yoked" which means to not be with somebody of a different religion
2007-08-20 09:49:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are Jewish, and of a certain tribe, you may not marry someone from certain other tribes. But I highly doubt any of that applies to you and your "friend".
2007-08-20 09:50:43 · answer #10 · answered by wuzzle, deus ex machina 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it doesn't say anything about that. What is does say though is don't be unevenly "yoked." If you are a believe try to get someone who also believes.
2007-08-20 09:51:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋