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Don't really know where to begin on this one, so I'll just say it like it is.
First off, I'm not a racist person. I don't really care about what color a person is, but I do care whether or not they have Christ, which is the really important thing. However, I was raised in a household where racism was not unusual, and one of the things I was always taught growing up was that it was unchristian for a white person to date a black person, regardless of which gender was which color. The basis for this teaching, my family told me, was the story of the tower of Babel.
According to the tradition I was taught, two people of a different race cannot marry each other with God's blessing because God separated the nations at the Tower of Babel, and racial intermarriage is therefore against his design for each nation staying pure and separate according to his plan. By this line of thinking, I was taught that it goes against the Bible - that a black marrying a white or an Asian marrying an Indian etc would be sacrilegious. Also, according to my family's rendering of other verses of the Old Testament, nations are supposed to keep themselves "pure" whatever that means.
Well, I'm not so convinced, but I want to be sure of what the right thing is. I do know that according to the Bible, Moses' wife was an Ethiopian (Cushite, and therefore a black women). Yet Moses, as a Hebrew, would have been a white man, right? Therefore Moses' marriage might have been interracial, correct? If so, wouldn't God have said something if interracial marriage was wrong?
The reason I ask this is not because there is a Christian girl in my life now who has confessed an interest in me. She is black and I am white. If interracial dating or marriage is wrong according to the Bible, we shouldn't see each other as a couple, right? If it's okay for different races to date, how would I go about that - given that my family would most likely deride me about being (I severely beg your forgiveness for using this phrase) a "xxxxxxxxx".
Also, please don't post anything racist on here. I know that racism is not a Christian thing, as much as many people have tried to twist it that direction. But if races are not supposed to mix according to God's commandment, I need that verified. If it's okay, I still need that verified. Scripture on this matter would be much welcomed. Should I or shouldn't I go out on a date with this dark girl?
First off, I'm not a racist person. I don't really care about what color a person is, but I do care whether or not they have Christ, which is the really important thing. However, I was raised in a household where racism was not unusual, and one of the things I was always taught growing up was that it was unchristian for a white person to date a black person, regardless of which gender was which color. The basis for this teaching, my family told me, was the story of the tower of Babel.
According to the tradition I was taught, two people of a different race cannot marry each other with God's blessing because God separated the nations at the Tower of Babel, and racial intermarriage is therefore against his design for each nation staying pure and separate according to his plan. By this line of thinking, I was taught that it goes against the Bible - that a black marrying a white or an Asian marrying an Indian etc would be sacrilegious. Also, according to my family's rendering of other verses of the Old Testament, nations are supposed to keep themselves "pure" whatever that means.
Well, I'm not so convinced, but I want to be sure of what the right thing is. I do know that according to the Bible, Moses' wife was an Ethiopian (Cushite, and therefore a black women). Yet Moses, as a Hebrew, would have been a white man, right? Therefore Moses' marriage might have been interracial, correct? If so, wouldn't God have said something if interracial marriage was wrong?
The reason I ask this is not because there is a Christian girl in my life now who has confessed an interest in me. She is black and I am white. If interracial dating or marriage is wrong according to the Bible, we shouldn't see each other as a couple, right? If it's okay for different races to date, how would I go about that - given that my family would most likely deride me about being (I severely beg your forgiveness for using this phrase) a "xxxxxxxxx".
Also, please don't post anything racist on here. I know that racism is not a Christian thing, as much as many people have tried to twist it that direction. But if races are not supposed to mix according to God's commandment, I need that verified. If it's okay, I still need that verified. Scripture on this matter would be much welcomed. Should I or shouldn't I go out on a date with this dark girl?
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) if you can find one person on this site who is 100% of any race. 
