Is interracial marriage right or wrong?
A. Christians often have very different opinions about the answer to this question. But if we approach the question with an open mind as we search the Scriptures, the answer becomes clear. Genesis 3:20 states that Eve “was the mother of all living.” In other words, all humans of all races descend from Adam and Eve. When God sent the Flood, he killed everyone on the earth but Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives; eight persons in all (Genesis 6:17–18; 1 Peter 3:20). The genes for the races on the earth today passed through the Flood in these people. After the Flood, in Genesis 11, we read how people had one language but, because they tried to build the Tower of Babel, God confounded their language and “scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth” (verses 7–8). Possibly, now isolated in smaller groups, certain genes began to dominate in each of the groups, leading to racial distinctions. Nevertheless, how the races developed is not as important to this que
