Is there anywhere in the Bible that says that it is wrong to mix races?
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That was an old testament law for the Jewish people because God knew that if they married pagan women or men they would be enticed to worship their gods and turn from Him. \n\nDeuteronomy 7:1  "When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,  (2)  and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.  (3)  You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,  (4)  for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.\n\nIn the new testament Christians are told:\n\nColossians 3:11  Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.\n\nIn other words, as long as a person is a follower of Jesus, their race has no meaning in God's eyes. If the person is not a believer, that's what matters now.\n\n2 Corinthians 6:14  Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?  (15)  What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?  (16)  What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (17)  Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,  (18)  and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."
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haha\n\nWell, I guess the next step is gay interracial couples wanting the ability to adopt non-Christian, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic children without the consent of the Church.
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No and if you listen to ignorant people who will just quote the bible at you--then ask them this.--The bible also says that a man should not cut the sides of his hair or trim his beard (Its in Leviticus) It also says it is okay to kill your slaves. Does that make any sense?!? God made us all who we are accept yourself for who you are and enjoy life. It is an adventure and you only get one shot.
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Yes, welcome to reality. There are two races of man in this world ever since the addition of a second man, the last Adam, who is the Messiah. Previously you had only one choice of race in which to belong and that was Adams race. Of course, the choice was easy and made for you, as you were born into it and automatically enjoyed its many benefits and privileges, among which were sin and death. Now, however, thanks to the death burial and resurrection of the Christ you are offered a rare opportunity to join a  separate race. It too has benefits and privileges, among which are holiness and eternal life. Your choice. Choose wisely.
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There are all kinds of contradictions in the bible.
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I pasted the story below... it was funny you asked this because I was just reading it this week. I believe the Bible is true and I believe the sons of Noah represent the three major races. Now I don't which race came from which son, but I believe the curse on Canaan represented the black race... and if you look at colonialism it sort of makes you say hmmm?? Also enlarging Japath... if that is the Asian race then hmm again because some 3/5 of the worlds population is Asian.\n\nNow, I have to warn, that many people have/can/will take this scripture out of context to suit their racist agendas. That is on them, the fact is that God is a loving God and at the other end of the Bible He said, that He so loved the world ...read all of Noah's decendants... that He gave up what was most precious to Him. We all have equal acess to God's love, forgiveness and mercy.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nGenesis 9:20-27 \n20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.\n 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,\n       "Cursed be Canaan!\n       The lowest of slaves\n       will he be to his brothers."\n 26 He also said,\n       "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!\n       May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [b]\n 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [c] ;\n       may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,\n       and may Canaan be his [d] slave."
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Yeah! i agree with you 100% and a lot of them that i've talked to claim that it doesn't "SPECIFICALY" say that its wrong in the bible and uhhh hello! Leviticus 18:22, "Do not lie with another man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." So my advice would be attack them with their own source of their job, the bible and god, also im pretty sure god wouldn't have song of solomon in the bible with a man and a woman instead of two men or two women. I mean c'mon people use some common sense! Like there was this gay guy and his bf that wanted to come to our youth group and we obiously had no prob. w/ it except it was really wierd and he claimed there was nothing wrong with it! HOW DARE HIM! i tried to not get upset and be respectful because its the devil whispering in his ear and ya don't fight fire with fire\n\n\n\n\nGod made adam and eve not adam and steve... lol sry, cheesy :)
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I'm not going to presume to try and tell anyone whether it's right or wrong. Yes indeed, it does say in the Bible in the book of Leviticus that you should not mark yourself. And some folks will insist that if you have a tatoo then you're going to hell. But then again, taken in context, right before that verse is one that says you shouldn't cut the hair at your temples. To my knowledge there is only ONE group of people that follows that rule today, and they aren't Christian.\n\nAnd again, religious leaders in Jesus's time got terribly upset with Him because he kept breaking their rules for what you could and could not do on the Sabbath, and what was considered "work".\n\nTo answer this question for yourself, you'll have to examine your motives in getting the tatoo. Is there vanity involved? A need to provoke people? Or a simple, honest expression of faith and perhaps a way to steer the topic of conversation to a sharing of faith? What matters most is what's in your heart.
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we dont know at what point he made the races but somewhere in the old testament
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Contrary to what liberal theologans say the Bible strictly condems homosexuality. You dont need to get hung up in the old testament with levitical law that they love to pull apart. Look right at the New testament-Romans -vs 26,27. The answer is no one can prove it. Even if it is claimed that a person is "born with it" that changes nothing. Lets try this, Iwas born to be a alcoholic, should I keep drinking although its wrong? Dont let anyone trick you , this culture is trying to ram it down our throats.
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He's saying don't believe what you see on all the pictures and television shows. If it's not so important about his race  or his color.....then why don't they use the description in the bible....which is the written truth right?
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it's just a story. If you want to take it literally, think about this one: Who did Adam's sons breed with to create the third generation of people?  Does that mean the bible says that incest is OK?
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Personally I think that it is fine. there is nothing wrong with either race. Society (including the government) is trying preserve racial purity, because if the races mix, it makes categorizing what race you are imposable. which is in my opinion a good thing, because that leads to racial equality.\n\nFYI I am white, and I married a black woman.
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Wrong. The Bible forbids such practices. Don't go!
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To some families race is important.  If you read the bible, you will see why some families believe that races should not mix.  He is not the one with the problem.  It seems to be his family.  If he is not strong enough to break it to his family...he is not strong enough to be in an interracial relationship.
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Does the Bible state certain people should not exist?\n\nSatan is brilliant when it comes to orchestrating deception. He has managed to persuade people to make problems when there need be none. No more effectively has He did this than with "race." Satan has deceived people into making "race" a problem by simply defining it as one. The premise usually goes something like this: "God never intended the mixing of the races." The inference is that there are four distinct races and that being in any group other than one of those distinct four "races" constitutes a genetic and aesthetic disadvantage. A person (influenced by Satan) makes the statement, convinces himself that it represents God's point of view and then connects "imagined" negative consequence to what he despairingly terms "race mixing." Since God is supposedly behind the argument, if you or I disagree with the premise, we are disagreeing with God! Who would dare disagree with God? Of course the Bible points out that many will come in Christ's name saying Christ is the Christ and deceive many (Matt. 24:4-5). And, they will kill you and think they do God a service. So, we had better ask ourselves if these ideas really represent God? \n\nThe holder of the argument goes about gathering "data" to support his premise. He usually finds what He is looking for. If evidence doesn't exist he can always "define" it into existence. "Look at the 'race' riots. Look at the 'racial' problems that exist all around the world. Blacks kill whites and whites kill blacks. Therefore, there is a race problem." The average non-thinking person usually swallows this argument. However, if it was pointed out that "blacks" kill "blacks" and "whites" kill "whites" that might infer that "race" was not the causative factor. Killing and hatred are not confined to "racial types." Japanese kill Japanese as do Germans kill Germans. Hatred it seems is not the exclusive domain of "race." Cain killed Abel. What did that have to do with "race?"
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You are very right.  When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev  22:18.  ; )  But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.).  Really it's all just a buffet.