Does Interracial Marriage Generally Go Against God’s Normative Design?

A Theological and Personal Response

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. A legitimate debate about whether or not interracial marriage is “ideal” or what God has in mind as “normative.” There is a lot that is going on with this discussion. And the fact that this debate is even happening is wild and deeply saddening to me. Honestly, there could be an entire PhD dissertation that could (probably should) be written about how being so committed to a theological and philosophical ideology stripped from Biblical exegesis is problematic at best and utterly devastating at worst.

I actually wrote a section in a PhD paper some years ago identifying how God views “multi-ethnicity” and what his “ideal” is for humanity. Check it out, and let the Biblical text drive your theology, not political ideology or philosophy.

(Source: Horne, Charles, and Julius Bewer. The Bible and Its Story: The Law, Levi…