Subject: Girlfriends racist parents. HELP ME! |
Bible Note: Kasmapilities, Hank's advice is definitely the way to go. However, it’s not clear from your post what your intentions are with your girlfriend. Does she want to move out to move in with you? If so, I can partly understand her parents’ reaction, though not its uglier racial side. If you both intend to marry, then you can strengthen your faith by opening your bible and reading about Zipporah, an Ethiopian who was Moses' wife. Below is an excerpt from a commentary on Numbers 12:1 (“And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.”), taken from Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible: “The Ethiopian woman whom he had married… - (Hebrew, “Cushite,” compare Gen 2:13; Gen 10:6). It is likely that Zipporah, Exo 2:21, was dead, and that Miriam in consequence expected to have greater influence than ever with Moses. Her disappointment at his second marriage would consequently be very great. “The marriage of Moses with a woman descended from Ham was not prohibited, so long as she was not of the stock of Canaan (compare Exo 34:11-16); but it would at any time have been offensive to that intense nationality which characterized the Jews. The Christian fathers note in the successive marriage of Moses with a Midianite and an Ethiopian a foreshadowing of the future extension to the Gentiles of God’s covenant and its promises (compare Psa 45:9 ff; Son 1:4 ff); and in the complaining of Miriam and Aaron a type of the discontent of the Jews because of such extension: compare Luk 15:29-30.” God certainly did not condemn Moses' and Zipporah's "interracial" marriage. Colin |