Interracial Marriage Is Fornication

Interracial Marriage Is Fornication

1 Corinthians 10:8 (KJV) – “Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”

This is a reference to an event back in the Old Testament, which is why it says “as some of them committed.”

Numbers 25:1-9 (KJV) – “And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.”

Notice how 1 Corinthians 10:8 says that 23,000 fell “in one day” while Numbers 25:9 doesn’t so “in one day” so, in other words, 1 Corinthians 10:8 is saying how many fell during that event in a single day and Numbers 25 is simply saying how many fell in total, that is why a different number is given. So  1 Corinthians 10:8 is not a contradiction or describing another event from Numbers 25:1-9.

The sin being committed was interracial marriage, that is why it mentions that Israel began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, and that one of the Israelites brought a Midianitish woman into his tent (which was a lawful marriage procedure), interracial marriage was being committed. Notice how Paul says that the sin being committed in Numbers 25:1-9 was fornication. In other words, interracial “marriage” is fornication.

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