Bible Question: i would like to know if anywhere in the bible does it say it is wrong to date or marry aoutside of you race like it says about dating or marrying the same sex and if it is wrong i would like the verses where it says thank you |
Bible Answer: It is true that in the Old Testament God commanded the Jews to marry only within their community (Exodus 34:16). However, this was not because of racial difference. It might be interesting to note that God did not consider the Jews to be a race of people. Foreigners could become Jews (Es 8:17). A Rahab and a Ruth could become one of them, so to speak, and even take their place in the lineage of Jesus. "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh" (Romans 2:28). In some sense, every believer is a Jew, because we are the child of Abraham. What we have in common is not genetics but faith. In the new covenant, however, believers are neither Jew nor Gentile but one new people, the church of God (1Co 10:32). Now, the foreigners, the outsiders, are the unsaved, and we are not to be yoked with them (2Co 6:14). |