Hope in the World

What is the Bible’s view on interracial couples? I ask this question because the Bible is an essential tool in christens life. Is there anything in the bible that states “mixed relationships” are wrong? Is there? I would have found it hared to believe that the bible would say other wise. However some say that the Old Testament did refer to races coming together as wrong. God did not want his priest it intermarry, in Lev. 21:14, “ A widow or a divorced woman of a defiled woman or a harlot these he shall not marry; but he shall take a virgin of his own people as wife.” This is basically saying that a man of God can only come together with a pure woman of his own race. Why does is feel like people will never change, back then there was a problem and in the present society is still fighting with interracial couples. I feel that people today are hypocrites because of the old saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” and yet we continue judge one another. This connects with my book the author Childs tackles a lot of obstacles to voice her options and the couples in the text lived everyday with out giving in to the temptation of the world, they stuck together and make sure people understood why they were together because love empowers everything else for example, Sara, Caucasian, said “ I thought it… I knew presenting myself and my relationship with André was going to be…I knew it was going to be a challenge with my family…well, I remember saying this when I was little well you can’t stop me if I come home with someone who’s black…but I knew that I never wanted to be like [my father, who uses racial slurs] and I wanted to understand why he was like that (Childs 27), here Sara shows her defiance towards her father. She never settled for anything less. She even questions as to why her father acted that why and maybe because he never took the time to see inside them and prejudged African Americans. Sara took it upon herself to change no one forced her she knew it was going to make a difference. Society is stuck on unrealistic views of society meaning that is stuck in the past. I remember readings that t there was a law against two races coming together and I thought about the Constitution how all men are created equal. How is that? In Gwen’s, (African American), case she took it hard when others treated her with no respect, “I did remember that [in this first relationship] being in the mall, places like that, with him and going up escalators one day and there were these black girls behind us and they were insulting to me and I got angry. I think they also toughen me up a little bit and decides that I could do what I wanted to do and didn’t feel I had to conform to anyone…”(Childs 29) Here she gives the reader a little story of he life and how it prepared her for the future now she is in a relationship with Bill (Caucasian), she could have easily gave in to the insults instead she used it to empower her. Childs uses her inputs al well the interviews to get an understanding the world. It makes me think about the world as I get older well it say in the past or is there hope.