How does God feel about dating or marriage outside your own race? Can white people and black people get married? Does it make any difference?
God told the Hebrews NEVER to inter-marry with the “Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, … Egyptians, and Amorites.” Ezra 9:1. When Solomon took foreign wives, it was a disaster. The Bible lists the nations the women came from and says “his wives turned his heart away.” 1 Kings 11:2-3. Turned his heart away from what? From God.
“For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away; and his heart was NOT wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. For Solomon worshipped the goddess Ashtoreth, and Milcom, the detestable idol. Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.” 1 Kings 11:5-6.
The problem was that Solomon’s wives had not been raised to worship Yahweh. And unlike converts, such as Ruth who became a devout Jew, these pagan women clung to their idols. Years later, many Jews married pagans while living in Babylon and Ezra kicked them out of Israel—or if they wanted to stay, they had to reject their non-Jewish wives and children. Ezra 9-10. Harsh! But the point was NOT race. God’s rule was “do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.” 2 Corinthians 6:14. Why not? Because if you marry an unbeliever, they will drag you away from God, and they will poison the faith of your children.
Building a Christian family is not easy—the world and the media work against Christians all the time.
Your children will listen to you for an hour a day—if you’re lucky. But they will listen to multiple hours of TV, movies, peers, and social media. If one parent (a non-Christian or even a weak Christian) is a worshiper of self, money, power, lust, alcohol, or drugs—the children will be deeply influenced. Marry whatever race you like, but you MUST marry a serious, committed Christian believer if your marriage and family are to survive.
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