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interacial marriages

Discussion in '2003 Archive' started by PraiseHim, Jan 18, 2003.

  1. Dr. Bob

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    IF we only allowed everyone in the nation to marry within their own nationality, how long before we all looked like Prince Charles? Oh, my! :eek: :rolleyes: :eek:
     
  2. Bartholomew

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    Hi, Abiyah.

    No, you're not 'living in sin' (well, we all do, but I know what you mean). As I said in my first post, "Of course, once someone is married, that is more important than any other consideration."

    I'm not condemning you or anyone else. However, was Jacob living in sin when he was married to Rachael and Leah simulataneously? (I'm not tlaking about him lying with thier maids). Was Rachael not his real wife? Should he have divorced her? I say "NO", and I challenge anyone to show why he should. I believe it was against God's will for him to marry two wives; but once he WAS married, it would have been wrong for him to have divorced one of them. Please will any of you who believe interNATIONAL marriage is OK please tell me why you think polygamy is wrong?

    Your friend and brother,

    Bartholomew
     
  3. Sherrie

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    This is not the question for this thread. You are avoiding the answer people give by answering with another question.

    Sherrie
     
  4. Abiyah

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    Bartholomew --

    I hope you saw my little smiley-face on that post.
    8o) Also, although my response appeared just
    below yours, it was not in response to your post.
    8o)

    It is just that my husband and Ii are so "racially"
    mixed up that it would be basically impossible to
    find another who is similar to either of us.

    People who question "mixed marriages" are those
    who are merely looking on the outside and see
    skin-color differences. Of far more important
    concern would be those mixed marriages which
    are a believer with a non-believer. My husband
    and I are of different religions, although we did not
    start off that way--it happened in the process of
    time. Many wonder at the closenes and respect
    we have, being so, and I can see how this could
    be problematic for some. But believer and
    unbeliever in a marriage? May it never be!!!
     
  5. Jim1999

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    The Lord help all of England, cos we don't know where we come from...every man from every nation, not a pure bloke among the lot.

    Cheers,

    Jim, an obviously very English
     
  6. Ben W

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    Hopefully people on this thread may be comming to realise that almost every country in the world has different races mixed in with its ancestry.

    England, Canada, America, Australia and others are all well represented on this board, yet these countries are all made up of people that have come from other countries.

    As I noted before, the Twelve Jewish tribes had to remain pure to fufil prophecy, Yet Jesus has come and that prophecy is fufilled. All gentiles are grafted in now. So marry whoever you like, Hopefully marry for love. [​IMG]
     
  7. Mauricio

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    Beside Moses and his dark wife Zippora there was Jozef who had a wife from Egypt (the patriarchs of Israel were born from them. Boaz (is it written like that in english) had a wife from Moab, (Jesus Christ was born from them).

    I have never heard bigger nonsense than that ppl from different races or nations could not marry.
    For example: I am dutch, could I marry a german woman. Those nations did not exist from Babel on.

    My future wife (5 weeks to go) is Dominican. Her 'race' comes from africans, the spanish and the indians.....should I cancel the wedding?? (no way...!! [​IMG] )

    About languages: God used the language mix up to get people spread over the earth. That purpose is reached, we do not have to be afraid anymore to study english, german, spanish. (For missionary purposes I think we better keep studying them)...

    Paul wasn't sinning the most of all when he said that he spoke most languages of all....

    gr. Mauricio
     
  8. Ransom

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    Bartholomew said:

    God DIVIDED the nations:

    "These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. (Gen 10:32)"


    Non sequitur. Though this passage says that the nations were divided, there is nothing in it that suggests that intermarrying between them was permanently forbidden by divine decree.
     
  9. TheOliveBranch

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    Weren't the nations divided by language barriers? Race didn't determine the divisions. God gave man the ability to learn different languages, though doing so is not something that is easily done. Though there may have been a color dominance in those specific groups.
     
  10. Bartholomew

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    Sorry, Mauricio, but this does not back up your claim. Jacob had two wives - does this mean polygamy is OK? I keep asking this question and nobody answers it. Show me where polygamy in general is condemned in the Bible. It's not. However, we say it's wrong because it goes against God's principles at creation. Equally, international marriage is wrong because it goes against God's purposes at Babel.

    So? I'll bet there's no country in the world now that existed at the time of Babel. Does this mean that it would be OK to unite them all?

    It's up to you.
    And those nations would be destroyed if everyone had an international marriage.
     
  11. Bartholomew

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    Never. Prince Charles' mother is English, but descended from a German. His grandmother was Scotish. His father is Greek, but is descended from the Danish royal family.
     
  12. Siegfried

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    Bartholomew,

    I have a friend that married a Canadian. Are you saying that was sin?

    I can see an argument that we should not intermarry between language groups, since that was the basis for the original separation at Babel. I don't agree with that argument, but at least there is some rational exegetical basis for it. "Race" and national origin do not have that basis, IMO.
     
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    No, I do not have a problem with interracial marriages. They have prettier babies.
     
  14. Bartholomew

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    Why do people keep asking me questions, but never answer mine? Hypothetically, if your friend married two Canadian women (if the law of the land didn't forbid it), would that be a sin? The answer is the same to both. BTW - do you think it would be OK to merge all the nations?
     
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    The only type of marriage we aren't to eneter into is a saved and non saved. Which still because Christ is so forgiving and loving He will deliever the lost one to Him still in that situation. My husband and I can testify to that.
    Jeanne
     
  16. Ransom

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    Bartholomew said:

    Equally, international marriage is wrong because it goes against God's purposes at Babel.

    Bartholomew, please quote the Scripture that says God's purpose at Babel was to divide humanity into "nations" that would only intermarry within themselves, and not, as the text rather plainly states, to thwart their efforts at self-deification.
     
  17. Siegfried

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    No need to get hot under the collar. If you don't want to interact with the question, just say so.

    I thought I answered your question (at least part of it) in my argument about language divisions.

    And no, I don't think it would be wise to merge all nations, but that's hardly the same as intermarrying. My friend now lives in Canada, but that doesn't mean the US and Canada are now one country, does it? Eh?
     
  18. Ben W

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    Bartholemew, I have noticed that you come from Noth East England, Where do your ancestors come from? are you the result of an inter racial marriage?

    My friend who is an Aussie is soon to marry a sheila from Jamacia, go for it mate is my attitude.
     
  19. The Harvest

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    AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!

    Anybody here remember that story of the tower of Babel or are you all too busy watching TV to crack open your Bibles?? How everyone was united in one race, one language and how they didn't need God because they were so great? What makes you think that because we have "come so far" that the exact thing wouldn't happen today? Look around you. One world government (the U.N.), one world currency (slowly but surely with the euro and electronic cash), one world religion (notice the charismatic movement seeping into ALL religions including catholocism). God does not like unity among people. He created the divisions!! Why wouldn't he support something HE created??
     
  20. Ben W

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    comming from America, are you the product of inter racial marrige? do all your ancestors come from the same country?
     
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