To All CAF'ers, EA'ers, and AFF'ers

[1Corinth2v4]

I'm about to post this on EA in response to an interracial marriage thread. This was one of many reasons I resigned membership on CAF.

I hope you CAF'ers read this too!


I'll start by openly declaring I'm for interracial marriages! Sadly, I'm acquainted with pastors and even saints which refuse to acknowledge interracial marriages, and advise against it. The despicable excuses utilized to advise against interracial marriages are 'think of society and/or culture, what will they say" or "think of the children, it will be hard on them growing up."

To pastors and saints adhering to the idiotic excuses above, to them I reply in the following fashion. Sir/Mrs/Ms, if you're worried what society/culture might think, you best leave the church and train your children in the ways of sin!

Attention readers, society has already ostracized us! We're already ridiculed and condemned for serving and obeying God! Being ridiculed for interracial marriage shouldn't make anymore of a difference. Children and teens are still ridiculed for dressing holy, not participating in certain events, and being identified as a pentecostal! My Goodness, we're already accused of being demoniacally possessed for speaking in tongues!

I'll boldly state I forbid society to dictate the love shared between any Holy Ghost filled interracial couple!

Any I'll leave the following message to those whom are against interracial marriage. Matthew 19:6 reads "..... What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."

When you prevent or advise against marriage between saints, due solely to ethnicity, you're in direct violation of God's divine mandate! You're also found on dangerous ground by putting asunder what God has joined together!

I think these so-called Pentecostals bearing these excuses have deeper underlying issues and need a real Holy-Ghost experience.

Blessings,
Bro. A.C.

[Sister Alvear]

That is one of the many reasons I do not post over there and since they changed rules I don´t even know if they would let me post. Some of the men there are good men and friends but I don´t like to put people in an uncomfortable position.
I think it borders on pure ignorance because I live in a country where all are intermarried...I don´t care if they are blond and blue eyed they have someone dark also..It s a country where all races just become Brazilians...
I was in one church that was preaching hard against whites and blacks marrying and someone said out loud what about Brazil? And the pastor said, that is Sister Alvear´s problem...
There is no more Bible for preaching like that than there is for riding an airplane....(well that is my opinion) sorry for being so blunt...
I wondered why after reading many of your post here why you did not post over there. Thanks for the information...
Some over there have sent e mails about me and other preachers (not just one have written me) lol...they seem to screen (some) what I write and most of the time they don´t even read the whole content of the subject...
Few things put me out but nosey gossiping people I do not enjoy their company and that does not in any way mean all are like that but some are...
And there are preachers over there and I am sure people here and on all forums that do it, give out their name and password to get in over there. So even at best people are people!
In the past some of my kids have been hurt over the color issue and I do not want them to be hurt. Some of the same people that do not want a white to marry a Afro American or should I just be blunt and say a black person will let their people marry a Spanish person, an Indian from India, a Chinese or whatever race except black...
I tell you my friends it is wrong and the kingdom of heaven is not made up of prejudices.

And spirits like this will cause people to be lost a lot faster than some thing we declare sin...Hate is an awful thing...
I know in your country there are complications but to say IT IS A SIN to marry another race, that is wrong and NOT Biblical...(well, so much for my honest opinion as blunt as it may be)

In the light of the late hour we find ourselves living in we need to wake up and do the REAL work of the church...

[Sister Alvear]

I was refering to CA´s forum not EA as I do have a page ove there. I have never had anyone to say anything at EA.
For weeks I cannot get on GNC am wondering why...and have requested a new password several times but have not recieved one??????????????
I haven´t figured that one out yet...but I am content just to post here. I have found a family here so I vent here....ha...

[Sister Alvear]

and no I am not bitter...just don´t want my kids hurt any more than some have been hurt. Guess that is the mother in me....

[Sister Alvear]

and please understand all over there are not like that just some of them and it usually changes after somone in their family breaks the rules... I know a few cases like that too...(in my life time)

[Sister Alvear]

I have heard people say some pretty hard things in my lifetime to live long enough and watch them eat their words...l have ate some of my words over the years...so it has taught me to be more careful in judging.

[Sister Alvear]

Sorry for so many posts...this hit a nerve...ha..
Exodus 34:10-16:

"And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels ... behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God; Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods."
God was forbidding the Israelites from marrying people of the nations around them. The question we need to examine closely is WHY? Was the prohibition based on race (especially as used in the sense of skin color) or on religion? I think most really know the answer...

we can see without a doubt that God's concern was that marrying outside the "church" (Israel was the Church of the Old Testament) and marrying outside the church would cause Israel to turn away from God. 2 Corinthians 6:14, says the same...

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers ...",
and 1 Corinthians 7:39,

"The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord."
God gave the saints liberty to marry anyone in the Lord regardless of race or skin color. The issue was the same for the Church in the wilderness. God intends for us to marry within the church...

[Withdrawn]

But what fellowship hath light with darkness?

Just kidding, of course. But that is another insane and ungodly principle that the racists use to justify their stance against it. I've had some pretty heated discussions with my father-in-law and his sister about the subject. They both INSIST it is a sin. Their heart is veiled because of what they've always been taught. I find no Bible for their view. On the other hand, I find that in the new covenant, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free, male nor female. We're all the same - equal under grace and before God.

I'm sure it would be a huge shock to my parents if my son were to marry (or even date) a girl with a different color skin, but I would find no problem with it as long as she was a decent, holy, christian girl. Why would any parent want anything less.

[Sister Alvear]

agreed...

[Sister Alvear]

I have always wanted the best for my children...color makes NO difference to me....In fact it never dawns on me what color person I am talking too...