Originally posted by Cow Poke
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Or is that 'drop and give me 10'
From our perspective anti-miscegationist Christians 'read the Bible like the devil does' (as my grandfather would put it), but these are the kinds of verses typically used. Their application today are rather dodgy, none of these tribes exist in any recognisable form now, and I think at best you can wring a warning out of them against marrying a person of a foreign religion. Also lets not forget that Moses was in a mixed marriage and God wasn't exactly pleased when Aaron and Miriam criticised that marriage.
Genesis 9:25: "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."
Genesis 9:26: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant."
Genesis 24:2-3: "Put your hand under my thigh, that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell"
Genesis 28:1: "So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: Do not marry a Canaanite woman."
Exodus 34:12: "Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst."
Deurotonomy 7:2-3: "You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,"
We see a case of a man about to marry a woman who worships Baal, and she is executed at which point God lifts a plague from the Hebrews.
Numbers 25:5-8 "So Moses said to Israels judges, 'Each of you must put to death those of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor.' Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting. When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw this, he left the assembly, took a spear in his hand 8 and followed the Israelite into the tent. He drove the spear into both of them, right through the Israelite man and into the womans stomach. Then the plague against the Israelites was stopped;"
In Joshua we get a warning for Israel not to intermarry other tribes around them, with God warning Israel that he won't deliver them from their enemies if they do so.
Joshua 23:12-13 "But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them, then you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you."
And similarly in Judges
Judges 3:6-7: "The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods."
In both of these cases its very obvious to me, and I imagine to everyone here, and almost any sane Christian save for a few weirdo fringe groups that this was about Israel avoiding syncretism, and mixing of faiths.
Much more scarcely do you get quotes from the New Testament but there are a few instances of warnings against marrying into groups with foreign faiths. Again its a stretch to apply, and you have have ignore very explicit texts in other letters, but hey there's a reason anti-miscegenation fell out of favor among Christians.
2 Corinthians 6: 14: "do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers."
Sorry for not being around so much these days. I've got a full-time job and I'm busy. Also posting here late at night was doing a number on my sleep.
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