There was a day I felt negative towards interracial marriage. Probably due to two things: growing up in South Texas culture and secondly some rated scripture.
Growing up in South Texas, there was a heavy Mexican culture. Many if not most of the kids I knew were affected deeply by it. For the girls, it wasn't bad, but for the boys there were obvious negative aspects. Two things were prevalent.... They had to be "macho" and they treated anyone weaker with disrespect and insult, even control. This was especially true of their female friends.
I remind you reading this, I am not stereotyping, but rather relating my own experience.
Women in that culture were possessions to be won, then stored away. It was a hunt. Not to keep, not to cherish, but to win. After the win, the female meant little to nothing, even a negative if they hung around. I watched this consistently over and over. Worse, it was especially true of white girls. The Mexican culture boys saw white girls as the ultimate prize to win, first place. Especially blonds.
It wasn't just what I saw, they admitted as much. Bragging about getting this one, or that. Bragging how close they were to "having that one" but also Bragging about how quickly they could get rid of them after the conquest. This wasn't individuals, this was culture. And the girls more often than not fell for it.
That experience surely soured me on interracial relationships. All I saw was negative aspects of mixing cultures. One culture (race?) invariably saw the other as less worthy, or prizes. It was rarely if ever about the relationship itself.
Now mix that life experience with the scriptures that speak of a pure isreal. There are plenty speaking of not taking wives from other cultures. Taken literally, it seems a reproof against interracial relationships.
But, I always stopped short of saying it was "wrong" even though the notion made me uncomfortable. Today, I see the issue more clearly.
Yes, there are challenges to interracial relationships. It requires either one to give up their own culture for the other, or a complex and somewhat delicate blending of culture. This is especially true when children come along and culture becomes more evident in lifestyles. So yea, there are specific challenges to interracial relationships, especially marriages. But....
Scripture does not prohibit it. It does point to the difficulties faced, but never a blanket rule against it. The scripture about isreal staying pure are speaking of believer / unbeliever mixes, which is what the races represent. Isreal was God's nation, everyone else was not. Saved vs unsaved... Light vs dark.
But race itself can not be a bad thing... Here's why: there is only one race! The human race. We are all the same, all one family, children of two individuals. This used to be perplexing, but now is simple. The way genetics work is clear, although highly distorted by evolutionary thought.
Genetically, information is never added through breeding. When things reproduce, the offspring are products of a subset of mom and dad. The offspring never has more genetic information than the two parents combined. (one basic reason why evolution as a rule is a lie). Sure there are mutations, random mistakes in the existing information, but even mutations are a change, not additional complexity.
What does this have to do with race? Simple... All the colors of skin, bodily characteristics, mannerisms, etc that define a race.... They all existed with Adam and eve. I breed animals... Take chickens. A "pure bred" chicken is one where all variations in the genetic code are removed, so offspring duplicate the parents. This is a removal of unwanted genetic info, not the addition of new info. There is no way to add info! A "natural" chicken, or "mutt" is a mix of lots of "breeds" and the offspring can pick up any combination of variations. But only if those variations already exist in the parents.
So in humans, all characteristics existed within Adam and eve, created by god for variety just like animals were. Consider that... Their children could have been white, black, Asian, Arabian, etc .. Their family, the first family was today what we would call interracial! Our God, our creator, embraces variety all throughout nature, and also in humans.
Interracial relationships can be difficult due to cultural differences, and that must be accounted for in making this choice.
But
There is no prohibition to interracial marriage, in fact it would seem God embraces and celebrates the variety.
However
Marriage between believers and unbelievers is prohibited by scripture.
That's where I ended up as of today. Multi Race variety is in God's design, man has corrupted the notion of variety, and really the issue is more one of post tower of babel experience.
