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Originally Posted by aussiemama
So, because someone has a beautiful interracial marriage and shares about it, that makes it right? Why are we taking personal stories and elevating them higher than God's Word? Now, if you have a BIBLICAL argument as to why you think interracial marriage is ok, I don't mind hearing those, but personal stories are irrelevant when discussing matters of right and wrong.
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aussiemama, God established the bounds of the nations' habitations. If you want to apply that to us today, then you're disobeying God by leaving Australia. I don't think God feels that way about the situation; have a little grace.
You'll find over and over again that God forbade interracial marriages for
religious reasons. Solomon was corrupted because of foreign wives, and he was the wisest man that ever lived! It was their religion that was the problem, not their skin color or their land of origin. THAT was the principle: it's carried forward by Paul forbidding Christians to be unequally yoked.
When God looks at humans, He sees Jew, Gentile, and Christian (Church). If you're born again, there is NO difference between us in Christ. Obviously you're a woman, I'm a man, I have white skin, and some have other colored skin, but to God that is irrelevant. Under the law of Christ, we are not under bondage to that separation of cultures if we choose to involve ourselves. Yes, it will complicate marriage. Yes, it might cause problems. But no, that does not forbid two Christians from different sides of the world from marrying.
If you have a legitimate, New Testament Church argument against "interracial" marriage, then by all means bring it forward. Otherwise, you're simply arguing a non-issue with no true Biblical foundation.