Comments on: Interracial Marriages

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:13:22 +0000

I agree wit Mac’s article completely with one caveat: you better be strong enough in your faith and marital bond to dismiss the bigotry of others. People still believe that they can change the world just by virtue of their love for another and when others see their love for each other bigotry will recede. No one can change the bigotry in another persons heart. Interracial couples need to understand that they will be mocked, jeered and left out of things and bigotry will survive as long as sin does.

By: WayneDawg

WayneDawg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:00:18 +0000

I have friends, who are Christian, down here in the deep South, who will argue all day long that black and white should not marry. I have tried my best for years to point out exactly what the Bible says (or does’nt say) concerning interacial marriages.

Good post!

By: David M.

David M. — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:10:29 +0000

The race issue has always been a burr under my saddle. TOo many professing “Christians” are seemingly only interested in skin color (e.g. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson) and routinely throw in their lot with all kinds of infidels for “the cause”. Well said.

By: Steve Scott

Steve Scott — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:27:29 +0000

There are those who would divide on the race issue, even if on cultural grounds, but an interesting thing occurs when an adopted child of a different ethnic group grows up in the culture of the parents. Is that child part of the ethnic group of his parents? or of his skin color? Who then should this child marry? Only other adopted children of the same skin color who were raised by parents of like skin? It gets complicated quickly.

I don’t have a problem with people who want to retain culture, but it has to be noted that many Christians are outcasts of their culture because they embraced Christianity in the first place. Should they be limited in their marriage choices? The church I attend is 13 years old (SF Bay Area suburb), and we just ordained our first elder who DIDN’T have a “mixed ethnic” marriage. It’s interesting, but the church I’m familiar with has more interracial marriages than the surrounding culture. I agree that we should show grace and not judgment.

By: GUNNY HARTMAN

GUNNY HARTMAN — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:46:12 +0000

Well said, especially the part about there only being one (human) race.

Sadly, many “inter-racial” marriages find themselves unwelcomed by churches of either option.

What’s sad is how many professing Christians would have much less heartburn about their children marrying a non-Christian versus someone outside of their ethnicity.

There’s still some renewing of the mind necessary.