Today's reading is Ezra 8-10 and Nehemiah 1-2
There is much criticism of the scriptures of what we see here in chapter 10, where men divorce women who are not Israelites. The problem with this criticism is that it is based on a misnomer. God never told the people of Israel they could not marry people who were not of their race, but those who were not of their religion.
Rahab and Ruth are two of the greatest example of this. They were absolutely not Jewish but they were brought into the nation of Israel and even blessed by God. Their difference was they believed in God. This made all the difference.
God and the Bible aren't racist. They do teach that marriage outside of your faith brings difficulties and most would agree. The problem here as in other place wasn't a race problem it was a faith problem.
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