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1 | interracial marriage | Bible general Archive 4 | PARKER63 | 236559 | ||
what does the bilble say about interracial marriage | ||||||
2 | interracial marriage | Bible general Archive 4 | CRAM117 | 236654 | ||
Interracial Issues discussed in Numbers 12 -- Moses marries an Ethiopian woman/Cushite -- Miriam and Aaron were not too happy about that. So the story goes like this: Numbers 12 Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses 1Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. 2“Has the Lord spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the Lord heard this. 3(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.) 4At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. 5Then the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, 6he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. 7But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. 8With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” 9The anger of the Lord burned against them, and he left them. 10When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprousa —it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, 11and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. 12Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother’s womb with its flesh half eaten away.” 13So Moses cried out to the Lord, “Please, God, heal her!” 14The Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.” 15So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back. 16After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran. |
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3 | interracial marriage | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 236661 | ||
Dear Cram, We have to be particularly cautious not to create doctrine from narrative. When a particular narrative is exemplary of a doctrine, that doctrine will always be found elsewhere in a didactic passage. Moreover, the passage you have chosen does not address a situation arising because of a mixed marriage. Rather it is a situation arising because of Miriam and Aaron's jealousy. (As put it, "The occasion of this seditious outbreak on the part of Miriam and Aaron against Moses was the great change made in the government by the adoption of the seventy rulers (Num 11:16). Their irritating disparagement of his wife (who, in all probability, was Zipporah (Exo 2:21), and not a second wife he had recently married) arose from jealousy of the relatives, through whose influence the innovation had been first made (Exo 18:13-26), while they were overlooked or neglected. Miriam is mentioned before Aaron as being the chief instigator and leader of the sedition.") In Him, Doc |
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4 | exemption of a doctrine... | Bible general Archive 4 | CRAM117 | 236665 | ||
Can you please explain this: When a particular narrative is exemplary of a doctrine, that doctrine will always be found elsewhere in a didactic passage. |
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5 | exemption of a doctrine... | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 236667 | ||
Hi, Cram... Yes, I believe I can. Hermeneutic principles permit us to rightly exegete the Scriptures. If you are interested, please see the thread beginning in post #156916, in which I have recorded a some of my notes summarizing these principles. One of the essential elements of proper exegesis is to understand the genre of the Biblical passage that we are interpreting. We take into account the literary categories of the passage in question. Thus, we do not interpret poetry the way we would interpret epistles, or prophecy the way we would interpret chronicles, etc. Each genre admits of its own characteristics by which it is properly understood. Narrative is generally a record of something that has happened, but not necessarily what should or ought to have happened. They often are not even intended to encourage or discourage a particularly behavior; in other words, they do not always have a moral associated with them. However, if they do exemplify or imply a particular doctrine, that doctrine will be stated propositionally elsewhere. Consequently, in order to avoid error, we build our theology on the propositional statements. Much error has been introduced by allegorizing, decontextualizing, moralizing, or personalizing narrative. For further study, I would highly recommend the book "How to Read the Bible for All its Worth" by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart. It is easy to read and highly profitable as a first text on the subject of hermeneutics -- well worth the ten dollar purchase price. In Him, Doc |
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6 | exemption of a doctrine... | Bible general Archive 4 | CRAM117 | 236670 | ||
Thank you Doc. I will look into that book. | ||||||