What does the Bible teach about interracial marriages
What does
the Bible teach about interracial marriages?
Nothing in
the New Testament prohibits interracial marriage. Christians are at liberty to
marry whomever they wish--as long as the other person is also a Christian (1
Corinthians 7:39).
The Old
Testament contained some restrictions on whom the Israelites could marry. These
were meant to protect the people of God from pagan influences (Deut. 7:3-4) and
to guard the purity of the Aaronic priesthood (Lev. 21:13-14). There were even
some strict regulations about inter-tribal marriage, designed to keep the
various tribes' inheritance from being lost by intermarriage (Num. 36:3-9). All
such restrictions are explicitly annulled by the New Testament (Gal. 3:27-29).
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