Transcript: AAC — 01 May 2023
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WEBVTT 00:00:01.160 --> 00:00:10.500Recently, I've started taking a break from Twitter on Sundays, really starting sometime on Saturday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening. 00:00:10.500 --> 00:00:20.480 At any rate, this past week, Saturday, I posted a tweet before taking my sabbatical, as it were. 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.640 And that tweet blew up. 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:24.620 It got a lot of views. 00:00:24.620 --> 00:00:38.300 And I want to explain specifically what it is I mean by that tweet, and why it is correct, why it is in line with right Christian doctrine. 00:00:38.300 --> 00:00:46.900 And for reference, the tweet, verbatim, interracial marriage is tantamount to murder. 00:00:46.900 --> 00:00:57.300 Now, it is important to note several things, and so I'm going to go through really four major points in this particular episode. 00:00:58.940 --> 00:01:05.480 To start off, we need to distinguish per se and per quote. 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:16.220 Now, I've distinguished this before elsewhere in, for example, the Stone Choir episode in which I distinguished per se from per quote. 00:01:16.220 --> 00:01:23.440 But just to go over it again briefly, something that is per se X is X intrinsically. 00:01:24.420 --> 00:01:32.760 Something that is per quote X is X due to other circumstances, due to other facts. 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:44.860 And so, it is important, it is vitally important to note at the outset that interracial marriage is not per se sinful. 00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:49.320 And so, of course, that means that it is not per se tantamount to murder. 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.060 The issue is per quote. 00:01:54.060 --> 00:02:01.480 The issue is that given external circumstances, given the surrounding facts, it is in fact sinful. 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:06.340 It is, as I said in my tweet, tantamount to murder. 00:02:09.260 --> 00:02:15.680 The children that are produced from an interracial union are in fact not related to their own parents. 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:28.340 Now, it is important to distinguish two senses in which we mean related here, because obviously I am using one, and if I were using the other, it would not be true. 00:02:28.340 --> 00:02:41.480 Yes, if two people of a different races have a child, that child is descended from them, and therefore is related to them in the sense of being descended from them. 00:02:41.480 --> 00:03:02.420 But biologically, genetically, according to the DNA of that child, that child is so far distant from his parents, that in fact, the parents are more closely related to any random member of their own race, of their own nation, than to their own child. 00:03:03.660 --> 00:03:12.700 And I'll get into near the end of this episode why that is important, some of the consequences of that, and what to do about those consequences. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:27.280 But in addition to the fact that the child is effectively not related to his own parents, which carries a lot of problems with it, there are also health consequences. 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:52.160 Many times, those who are born of particularly distant genetic stock, so parents who are less closely related, this is not going to be something that applies to, say, a German and a Dutchman or a Dutch woman and a German or a German and a Russian, even, which is to say people descended from Japheth, Europeans, whites. 00:03:52.160 --> 00:04:01.260 That's within one of the overarching ethnic groups, being of course the Japhethites, the Hamites, and the Shemites. 00:04:01.260 --> 00:04:02.760 Now, this is something more distant. 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:08.800 If you have a European and an African, there are going to be health consequences of that union. 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.180 The child is going to be less healthy. 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:19.360 The child is going to have more problems than if he did not have such disparate lineage. 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:31.720 And of course, this creates problems for medical care, because the child is going to require more medical care for one, and it is going to be more difficult to render that medical care. 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:50.960 Because we have routines, we have various things set up for those of particular lineage, because yes, you do actually have to tailor medicine to the genetics, to the lineage, to the DNA, really is what you're doing, the biology, of the patient in some cases. 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:54.140 It depends on the type of treatment. 00:04:54.140 --> 00:05:00.100 But to some degree, we have those regimens in place tailored to particular groups. 00:05:00.940 --> 00:05:10.840 If someone is effectively sui generis, because that person is a mishmash, a mixture of multiple different groups, we don't have those in place. 00:05:10.840 --> 00:05:14.560 It's going to be more difficult to treat that person. 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:18.000 Additionally, there are going to be things where you cannot treat that person. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:29.160 So organ donation, tissue donation, if you try to get a bone marrow donation, and you are half black and half white, good luck, you probably will not be able to find a compatible donor. 00:05:29.620 --> 00:05:31.180 And that is a serious consequence. 00:05:31.180 --> 00:05:36.720 That is something parents should take into account because they are putting that on the child. 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.720 Parents are supposed to care for their children, not burden them unnecessarily. 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:44.160 And this is most certainly an unnecessary burden. 00:05:45.460 --> 00:05:52.240 Additionally, for the child outside of the biological issues, you have the cultural issues. 00:05:53.540 --> 00:06:02.160 This child is not going to belong to any one particular culture because the child is going to be torn between at least two. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.280 It's going to be the father's culture versus the mother's culture. 00:06:05.280 --> 00:06:07.880 And this is something those parents have put on that child. 00:06:07.880 --> 00:06:10.740 This is a problem for the child. 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:16.360 That is a consideration because, again, parents are supposed to care for their children. 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:32.500 And in the same vein, the divorce statistics for interracial marriage are significantly worse than those for intraracial marriage, which is to say, if you marry someone outside your own race, you are much more likely to get divorced. 00:06:32.500 --> 00:06:35.960 Again, this is going to severely impact the child. 00:06:35.960 --> 00:06:43.760 We know the consequences for children if they are the product of a failed marriage, if their parents divorce. 00:06:43.760 --> 00:06:49.240 Now add on top the other problems that biracial, multiracial children have. 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:53.920 And you have given this child a significantly harder time in life. 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:54.500 For what reason? 00:06:55.100 --> 00:06:56.940 Why did you do this to the child? 00:06:58.780 --> 00:07:02.780 But of course, that is simply the beginning of this problem. 00:07:02.780 --> 00:07:14.620 Let's look at it in the modern context, and then we'll look at it in the biblical context second, because of course, that is one of the things I am accused of doing, is twisting scripture or ignoring scripture. 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:16.600 And so we'll address those questions. 00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:19.820 But in the modern context, we'll deal with that first. 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:27.760 The goal of interracial marriages in the modern context is the destruction of nations. 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:29.520 This is very explicit. 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:43.060 Those who are advocating for interracial relationships, multiracial, biracial, whatever it happens to be, children, the explicit goal is the destruction of the distinct nations. 00:07:43.060 --> 00:07:48.180 In particular, the goal, of course, is the destruction of whites, of the white race. 00:07:49.080 --> 00:07:56.600 And the reason for this is because, historically, Christendom has been synonymous with Europe. 00:07:57.960 --> 00:08:02.820 Whites have been the bulwark of Christendom in the world for millennia. 00:08:02.820 --> 00:08:21.700 And Satan knows this, and he hates us, and so he wants to erase us, and this is one way that he can do it, a very effective way, because an interracial marriage destroys the lineage of both parents insofar as that child is concerned. 00:08:21.700 --> 00:08:42.540 Now, of course, if, for instance, you have a father from group A and a mother from group B, and the child marries into group B, and then the child's children marry into group B, eventually you wind up genetically, basically, back in group B, just because of the way that genetic recombination and such works. 00:08:42.540 --> 00:08:54.080 However, that only works so long as you have a large enough pool of group B where something like that can be absorbed and effectively bred out over time. 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:05.880 If you have enough people who are crossing that racial boundary with their marriages in a short span of time, you destroy one or both groups involved. 00:09:05.880 --> 00:09:09.480 Just depends on the relative size of the groups, basically. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:27.820 In addition to this overtly evil goal, which many admit this is in fact their goal, this is what they want to accomplish with interracial marriage, many of those who are engaged in interracial marriages admit they are doing it for wicked reasons. 00:09:27.820 --> 00:09:29.040 It may be a fetish. 00:09:29.660 --> 00:09:31.860 It may be they hate their own people. 00:09:31.860 --> 00:09:33.800 Of course, that is sin. 00:09:33.800 --> 00:09:39.840 That is particularly egregious sin, just according to the plain words of scripture. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.800 It's also something that is, of course, pushed by our culture and our media. 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:53.960 And as I have often said, as we've often said on Stone Choir as well, look at the origin of an idea or a thing. 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:55.300 Who is pushing it? 00:09:55.300 --> 00:09:56.600 Why is it being pushed? 00:09:57.280 --> 00:10:06.000 If the person or group pushing it is evil, you can rest fairly assured that the thing itself is also evil. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.200 It is aimed at evil ends. 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:10.640 Because ultimately, of course, it comes from Satan. 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:15.620 And in this case, those pushing it are evil. 00:10:15.620 --> 00:10:22.760 Those who are pushing interracial marriage are by and large atheists, Marxists, communists. 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:29.980 This was a big push from the USSR in order to drive tension and destroy the nation. 00:10:29.980 --> 00:10:35.220 It is carried over into the modern context, of course, and it's still Marxists who are pushing it. 00:10:35.220 --> 00:10:40.100 Just a different flavor of Marxists less the Soviet variety, more the Frankfurt. 00:10:41.920 --> 00:10:45.900 And as I mentioned, interracial marriage destroys one's race. 00:10:46.160 --> 00:10:51.840 It is, in fact, a repudiation of one's ancestors, of one's parents. 00:10:51.840 --> 00:10:55.640 And so, of course, it is a violation of the Fourth Commandment. 00:10:55.640 --> 00:11:00.540 Because the Fourth Commandment does not extend just to the immediate generation before you. 00:11:00.540 --> 00:11:02.400 It's not just your parents. 00:11:02.400 --> 00:11:07.120 Because of course, this can be explained a number of ways. 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:10.920 The simplest one for most people to grasp is going to be this. 00:11:10.920 --> 00:11:14.420 You have a duty to your parents under the Fourth Commandment. 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:16.300 That is explicit, that is obvious. 00:11:16.300 --> 00:11:18.380 Thou shalt honor thy father and thy mother. 00:11:18.380 --> 00:11:22.080 And of course, there's the blessing with it, which plays into this as well. 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:25.680 That it may go well with you, and you may live long in the land. 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:30.000 Or thou mayst live long in the land, if we want to use the older English. 00:11:31.860 --> 00:11:35.280 But of course, you have to look at it generationally. 00:11:35.280 --> 00:11:38.260 Your parents have a duty to their parents. 00:11:38.260 --> 00:11:40.180 Their parents have a duty to their parents. 00:11:40.640 --> 00:11:49.440 And so part of honoring your parents is recognizing their duty to honor their parents, and therefore honoring your grandparents. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:54.460 Partly through your parents, but also directly. 00:11:54.460 --> 00:11:59.120 Particularly if they're still alive, but also all of those ancestors all the way back. 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:06.180 And part of how you do that is continuing the line they have preserved over a course of millennia. 00:12:06.180 --> 00:12:12.960 Not terminating it for some selfish reason, which it virtually always is in these cases. 00:12:14.380 --> 00:12:20.780 We could also mention crime statistics, but I've mentioned that elsewhere, gone over it fairly extensively. 00:12:20.780 --> 00:12:25.220 I'll link to it in the show notes instead of going over it here. 00:12:25.220 --> 00:12:30.440 And so of course mentioning the Fourth Commandment leads us right into the biblical context. 00:12:31.560 --> 00:12:42.900 And this is the one that many have attempted to say that I'm somehow violating with my arguments, that I am ignoring the biblical context, or twisting it, what have you. 00:12:42.900 --> 00:12:45.520 And so let's look at some cases. 00:12:45.520 --> 00:12:48.960 We will look at five cases. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:50.940 We'll start with Moses. 00:12:50.940 --> 00:13:00.720 There are those who argue that Moses was in an interracial marriage, because he married Zipporah, the daughter of the priest of Midian. 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:10.640 What these people fail to mention, and in some cases it may be simply because they're cherry-picking, or they're looking for something on the internet. 00:13:10.640 --> 00:13:13.840 They probably googled it and don't know anything about scripture. 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:27.420 Well, the Midianites are descended from Abraham via Keterah, and so the Midianites are cousins of the Israelites, of the Hebrews. 00:13:27.420 --> 00:13:28.940 This was a cousin marriage. 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:30.840 This is not an interracial marriage. 00:13:31.700 --> 00:13:47.260 Now, there is one other attempted argument in the case of Moses, and they will say that when there was the rebellion with Miriam and Aaron, that they said that Moses had married a Cushite, and therefore, that was the reason. 00:13:47.260 --> 00:13:49.420 This is what the opponents attempt to argue. 00:13:49.420 --> 00:13:52.860 Therefore, that was the reason they were condemning Moses. 00:13:54.740 --> 00:13:59.260 Now, if you actually read that text, that's not the reason they're condemning Moses. 00:13:59.880 --> 00:14:12.080 Now, they may have brought that up, but the real problem there is that they were rejecting Moses, who was the chosen of God, to lead the people of Israel, and therefore, in rejecting Moses, they were in fact rejecting God. 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:16.020 They were rebelling against God, because the rebellion is always against God. 00:14:16.020 --> 00:14:18.780 Against you, you only have I sinned. 00:14:18.780 --> 00:14:19.540 That's the issue. 00:14:19.540 --> 00:14:21.600 The issue was not Moses. 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:27.500 And also, Cushite in this context probably just means foreign woman from the region of Cush. 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.400 Cush is to the south, so is Midian. 00:14:32.400 --> 00:14:36.240 Probably the same woman, even if it was not the same woman. 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:40.560 The issue was still the rebellion against God. 00:14:40.560 --> 00:14:54.300 The usurpation, which is incidentally why you see Miriam is cursed more heavily than Aaron, because for a woman to attempt to usurp, that sort of headship, that sort of leadership, is of course worse than for a man to do so. 00:14:54.300 --> 00:14:59.800 And Aaron was in fact a leader of the people as well, just not in the same position as Moses. 00:15:01.060 --> 00:15:06.860 And so scripture doesn't actually say anything about this marriage. 00:15:06.860 --> 00:15:10.740 We don't have an explicit approval or condemnation. 00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:16.040 And so it goes beyond the text, if either side really wants to draw anything out of this. 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:21.540 The next person we'll address is Rahab. 00:15:21.540 --> 00:15:29.200 Now, there's a fundamental problem here, a foundational issue when we are addressing Rahab. 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:33.140 And that is that we don't know if we're dealing with one person or two. 00:15:34.860 --> 00:15:49.300 When you translate or transliterate, as the case may be, a name from one language to another, it is often the case that there will be multiple spellings, particularly across different authors. 00:15:49.300 --> 00:15:51.160 And here we have two different names. 00:15:52.240 --> 00:16:06.440 We have Raab and Rahab, and that is R-A-A-B or R-A-X-A-B, just to transliterate the Greek characters as it were. 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:18.300 Now, we have with the Kai, with the X, in Matthew, Rahab, but in the Septuagint, Old Testament, and in Hebrew and James, we have Raab. 00:16:19.980 --> 00:16:22.180 Is this the same woman? 00:16:22.180 --> 00:16:23.380 Well, we don't know. 00:16:23.380 --> 00:16:24.680 Scripture does not tell us. 00:16:24.680 --> 00:16:36.520 There's nowhere else we are told if this Rahab, as the name is transliterated into English, is two different women or one woman. 00:16:36.520 --> 00:16:39.960 And so Matthew, of course, is giving us the lineage of Christ. 00:16:41.220 --> 00:16:49.880 If Raab is Rahab, then we have a Canaanite in the lineage of Christ. 00:16:49.880 --> 00:16:53.240 But we have no reason to conclude this. 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:55.820 If Scripture told us that, fine. 00:16:55.820 --> 00:17:01.240 We can use this argument for whatever purpose, as long as it's in line with the text says. 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:05.660 The text does not say that this is the same woman. 00:17:05.660 --> 00:17:12.040 And so neither side can draw any argument from this, because it goes beyond the text. 00:17:13.140 --> 00:17:25.500 Now, those who are on the other side are actually relying on Midrashim, they're relying on Jewish sources that supposedly exegete this text or carry forward some oral tradition. 00:17:25.500 --> 00:17:31.460 That's not Scripture, that's not binding, Christians should not resort to it. 00:17:31.460 --> 00:17:36.840 And so Rahab does not give an argument for either side. 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.940 The next individual in Scripture we will address is Ruth. 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:48.600 This is a similar issue to earlier with Moses and Zipporah. 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:52.600 Ruth was a Moabite. 00:17:52.600 --> 00:17:55.740 Well, the Moabites were descended from Lot. 00:17:55.740 --> 00:18:01.740 Lot was the nephew of Abraham, again, cousins. 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:05.660 This is not an interracial marriage, this is a cousin marriage. 00:18:05.660 --> 00:18:09.640 And again, it just pays to actually know Scripture, to know the lineage of these people. 00:18:10.420 --> 00:18:20.580 You cannot make a sound argument, you cannot make a proper argument, if you don't actually know what Scripture says about these individuals. 00:18:20.580 --> 00:18:24.540 And so again, Ruth is a cousin. 00:18:24.540 --> 00:18:32.280 Moving on, Joseph, this is one where perhaps we have an interracial marriage. 00:18:32.280 --> 00:18:37.900 Joseph married Asenath, the daughter of the priest of On. 00:18:40.780 --> 00:18:43.240 She may have been a Hamite. 00:18:44.280 --> 00:18:51.940 If she was an Egyptian, then she was a Hamite, because Egypt is the son of Ham. 00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:55.060 The Egyptians are sons of Ham. 00:18:55.060 --> 00:19:00.020 Egypt is called in Scripture the land of Ham. 00:19:00.020 --> 00:19:04.540 However, we are not given a lineage of Asenath. 00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:13.560 The Egyptians were conquered, at least a couple of times in history, perhaps more than that, by Shemitic peoples. 00:19:14.580 --> 00:19:42.600 One in fact was the Hyksos, and that may have played in to why the Pharaoh, who was leader of Egypt at the time of the Exodus, hated the Israelites, feared the Israelites, because he may have thought that if the Hyksos or some other group of Shemitic origin came in, that the Hebrews, also being Shemitic, would have aligned with them, would have allied with them, and fought against the Egyptians. 00:19:44.420 --> 00:19:55.160 But of course, some of the leadership, some of the upper echelons of Egyptian society would have been Shemite descended because of these invasions. 00:19:55.160 --> 00:20:00.060 The similar things happened in various parts of the world over time. 00:20:00.060 --> 00:20:15.320 For instance, we know the Normans came in and conquered parts of Britain, and then you have the Anglo-Saxons, and you have these various groups that conquer other groups and take over the upper echelons of society and intermix over time. 00:20:15.320 --> 00:20:21.820 Now, in the case, of course, the European case I gave, these are very closely related cousins. 00:20:21.820 --> 00:20:26.820 In this case, they're a little more distance because you're dealing with Shemites versus Hamites. 00:20:28.100 --> 00:20:33.760 However, again, we don't know the lineage of Asenath. 00:20:33.760 --> 00:20:44.920 And so if either side makes an argument from this, it is an argument based on assumption, not based on what is explicitly in the text of scripture. 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:53.280 Even if, let's say, let's say that Asenath was indeed a Hamite. 00:20:53.280 --> 00:20:56.980 So this is Joseph a Shemite marrying Asenath a Hamite. 00:20:57.520 --> 00:21:04.640 So this is a proper interracial marriage, an actual one in scripture, if we make this assumption. 00:21:05.660 --> 00:21:09.280 Does scripture say that this was a wise union? 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:09.920 No. 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:12.620 Does scripture say this was an unwise union? 00:21:12.620 --> 00:21:13.860 Again, no. 00:21:13.860 --> 00:21:16.840 Scripture does not pass any judgment on it. 00:21:16.840 --> 00:21:21.440 Scripture simply relays what happened in this case. 00:21:22.460 --> 00:21:42.780 And so, if we want to draw out and say that this was approved of by God, this was blessed in some way, we can say that he did indeed go on to found part of a nation, as it were, not a nation unto itself, but a tribe, two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. 00:21:42.780 --> 00:21:45.180 And so we can say that God did bless him. 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:54.900 However, that God blessed him for this does not mean that this particular union was in and of itself wise. 00:21:56.220 --> 00:21:58.500 We could look, of course, to David. 00:21:58.500 --> 00:22:01.460 Was what he did with Bathsheba wise? 00:22:02.840 --> 00:22:11.800 No, I think we can all agree that stealing another man's wife and murdering him is not something we should call wise. 00:22:11.800 --> 00:22:15.440 Did God still give him children from Bathsheba? 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:22.000 Yes, Solomon in particular, who would sit on his throne, who would be in the line of the Messiah. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:30.220 Not everything that is recorded in scripture is necessarily something that is wise, something that is praiseworthy. 00:22:30.220 --> 00:22:40.400 Some things are left to human wisdom, and we have to be able to make those calls based on the information available to us. 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:49.100 This is, of course, obvious, because the most clear-cut case, let's call it. 00:22:50.120 --> 00:23:03.660 If a woman becomes pregnant as a result of rape, we have to contend with the fact that children are a blessing from God, but this child is very clearly the product of an evil act. 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:15.960 Can we conclude that because God's blessing of children, God's blessing of a child in this case resulted, that the act itself is approved of or blessed by God? 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.360 The answer, of course, is no. 00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:29.000 And so we have to be careful what sort of conclusions we are drawing from the information, from the facts relayed by scripture. 00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:45.120 And so even if this is a case of an actual interracial marriage, we are not told by scripture if this is something that is blessed or cursed, if this is something that is praiseworthy or blameworthy. 00:23:47.020 --> 00:23:56.320 And even if we go ahead and assume that it is praiseworthy, this was a good thing, it does not mean that it's a general rule. 00:23:56.320 --> 00:24:01.300 Again, there are matters that are left to human wisdom. 00:24:01.300 --> 00:24:14.460 And so let's look at really basically the only very clear case of mixed lineage that we have explicitly mixed lineage clearly taught by scripture. 00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:17.800 And that, of course, is Timothy. 00:24:17.800 --> 00:24:27.180 And per Acts 16, Timothy was born of a Jewish or Judean woman and a Greek father. 00:24:27.180 --> 00:24:38.120 Now, of course, we could make the argument that technically it does just say Judean and Greek, and Greek can just mean foreign, and Judean can mean living in Judea. 00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:54.260 But I think it is a fair assumption in this case to go with the interpretation in this case that Timothy's mother was indeed an Israelite woman, and his father was indeed a Greek in the sense of ethnically, racially Greek man. 00:24:55.320 --> 00:25:00.020 And so again, does scripture praise this union? 00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:01.300 No. 00:25:01.300 --> 00:25:03.540 Does scripture curse this union? 00:25:03.540 --> 00:25:04.700 No. 00:25:04.700 --> 00:25:07.280 We're back to my initial comments. 00:25:07.280 --> 00:25:09.840 Per se, not sinful. 00:25:09.840 --> 00:25:15.340 The issue is, per quote, the issue is the surrounding circumstances. 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:24.340 And in our modern context, interracial marriages are basically always sin. 00:25:24.340 --> 00:25:26.800 They are a problem. 00:25:26.800 --> 00:25:31.340 For the reasons mentioned, and I'll get into the consequences now for my last point. 00:25:31.340 --> 00:25:35.940 We've finished the section on the biblical context, as it were. 00:25:35.940 --> 00:25:40.920 And so let's discuss the actual consequences of interracial marriages. 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:50.740 I already discussed the issue, some of the issues regarding children, the medical consequences, the lack of a real culture, the lack of belonging. 00:25:52.080 --> 00:26:03.500 But it really is worse than that, because one of the things that we have to do, according to scripture, according to the Fourth Commandment, is honor our father and mother. 00:26:03.500 --> 00:26:11.880 And again, that extends beyond just one's immediate biological mother and father. 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:14.680 You are part of a larger culture. 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:17.860 You are part of a nation. 00:26:17.860 --> 00:26:23.620 And part of honoring your father and mother is honoring that nation of which you are part. 00:26:25.140 --> 00:26:30.600 How do you do that if you are not really part of any one nation? 00:26:30.600 --> 00:26:42.440 If your parents are from two separate nations, or worse, if your grandparents are from three or four separate nations, how do you honor your nation properly? 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:45.660 You don't have a nation in a very real sense. 00:26:45.660 --> 00:27:00.800 And this is the problem that individuals who enter into an interracial marriage create for their own children, because that child will have to choose to which nation he truly belongs. 00:27:00.800 --> 00:27:11.260 Now, of course, the ordinary course of things is that a woman leaves her family and becomes part of the family of her husband, and so the child would choose his father's nation. 00:27:11.260 --> 00:27:17.080 But that is not how it always plays out in the modern context. 00:27:17.080 --> 00:27:23.340 And so this is a burden placed by selfish parents on to their children. 00:27:23.340 --> 00:27:24.780 And the child has to choose. 00:27:24.780 --> 00:27:26.720 This is the reality of it. 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.880 This is the recommendation, because this is the best thing the child can do. 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:36.580 The child has to choose the nation to which he will belong. 00:27:36.580 --> 00:27:39.580 And that is a terrible burden to put on a child. 00:27:39.580 --> 00:27:48.140 Because for anyone who was born to parents of the same nation, you don't have to choose your nation, because it's your nation. 00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:52.360