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God says not a critical word against Moses for marrying a black Cushite woman. | God says not a critical word against Moses for marrying a black Cushite woman. | ||
==2. Races are God's will and therefore amalgamating them is against his will. | ==2. Races are God's will and therefore amalgamating them is against his will.== | ||
Genesis 11:6-9, Deuteronomy 32:8, and Acts 17:26 are texts that are used to support this argument. However, these texts refer to separation of peoples that are along lines much more narrow than race. They are not racial divisions, so, used this way, they "prove" too much, since they would seem to forbid intermarrying between any people group boundaries even within the same race. | Genesis 11:6-9, Deuteronomy 32:8, and Acts 17:26 are texts that are used to support this argument. However, these texts refer to separation of peoples that are along lines much more narrow than race. They are not racial divisions, so, used this way, they "prove" too much, since they would seem to forbid intermarrying between any people group boundaries even within the same race. | ||
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God's punitive judgments (like the curse at the tower of Babel) do not become our mandates. For example: God cursed creation at the fall, but this does not mean that we should not use antibiotics or aspirin. So God's separating peoples does not mean there should never be any coming together of people, including in marriage. | God's punitive judgments (like the curse at the tower of Babel) do not become our mandates. For example: God cursed creation at the fall, but this does not mean that we should not use antibiotics or aspirin. So God's separating peoples does not mean there should never be any coming together of people, including in marriage. | ||
==3. There is a curse on Ham, the son of Noah, who the Black race came from== | ==3. There is a curse on Ham, the son of Noah, who the Black race came from== | ||