We don't want to presume any answers here on Ask Pastor John and Tracy, who is a white

woman, writes in to ask, Pastor John, I would like to know if dating or marrying a black

man is wrong.

If so, could you please tell me we're to look in the Bible for it?

I know a lot of people frown upon this, but I want to be sure what God says and not what

man says.

I preached on this, I've written on it in bloodlines, I've got a whole chapter on

an interracial marriage, and here's a summary of my argument.

There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible.

Number one, she should marry a man.

Number two, he should be a Christian.

And I get that from 1 Corinthians 739, if her husband dies, talking about a widow,

she is free to be married to whom, this is a masculine pronoun here, to whom ever

she wishes only in the Lord.

So Paul is very vigilant that you don't go out and marry an unbeliever.

So this is just huge that we should only marry people who love Jesus.

He didn't restrict it in any other way.

People have brought up to me over the years the restrictions that God put on Israel for

intermarrying with the nations and use that as an argument for being opposed to interracial

marriage.

And my answer to that is, those stipulations in the Old Testament were religiously motivated

not racially motivated.

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