Does God approve interracial marriage?
Miriam depicted on the right (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Noah damning Ham Русский: Ной проклинает Хама (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Illustration by James Tissot Copyright de Brunoff 1904 Source: http://www.cts.edu/ImageLibrary/tissot.cfm (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Some people insist that the Bible meant for the races to remain pure, therefore prohibiting any kind of interracial marriage. Usually two biblical texts are drawn upon to support that view. One is the fact that Noah had three sons, Shem , Ham , and Japheth . As you recall, Shem received a patriarchal blessing, and an enlargement of that was given to Japheth. Ham, because he looked upon his father’s nakedness, was cursed. “Cursed be Canaan” was the malediction that Noah pronounced on Ham and his descendants. Some have neatly contrived from the three sons of Noah , three survivors of the flood, that this is the historic basis for the three basic generic types of human beings: the Caucasian, the Negroid , and the Mongoloid...