Does the Bible forbid Interracial Marriages “Cultural differences pirates”?
“Don’t believe me, believe your Bible!” This is the greatest and most important legacy of a preacher I once heard. Some churches have a policy forbidding interracial dating and marriage. Is this policy biblical? Should we have such a policy in the church today? In this short article we will see that an anti-miscegenation policy cannot be supported by scripture. We will also see that a policy to forbid interracial dating and marriage can cause great offense because it reflects racism rather than the truth of God’s Word. As Christians we must strive to ensure that the Word of God is the foundation of our policy and doctrine and not the ideas, speculation, culture, or racism of men. I remember how racism, in a church I attended years ago, offended my brother when he attended services for the first, last and only time. I was new in the Church myself. I had just started attending. Filled with zeal and enthusiasm for the truth, I invited my brother to services so he could see for himself tha
