In this 2nd of 8 sermons on 8 hate attacks against the traditional values of Christian marriage, Gavin addresses the 3rd issue of racially mixed marriages with special reference to those between whites & coloureds. He first considers the appropriate definition of white Caucasian race coupled with linguistic culture from Gen. 9 & 10, in opposition to mixed marriages with coloureds. He considers the Biblical teaching of what Old Testament laws continue to bind the Christian under New Testament morality. He shows the morality taught by Holy Ezra & Holy Nehemiah in Ezra 9 & 10 & Neh. 13 continues to bind Christians with respect to prohibiting racially mixed marriages (Deut. 23:2-8). He also refers to how in response to the antediluvians' sins of racially mixed marriages between Cain's race & Seth's race (Gen. 4:16-6:3), & "violence" (Gen. 6:11,13), God created & segregated the races into nations, sometimes with servant races (Gen. 9-11), & mandated murder should be a capital crime (Gen. 9:5,6). Gavin considers the Genesis 10 Biblical definition of a nation in ethnic "families" in The Table of Nations as one determined by race & linguistic culture (Gen. 12:3; Acts 3:25; Gal. 3:8); in antithesis to the post World War II Type 2 Secularists' "spatial" defintion in which anyone in the stated geographical space is said to be "a citizen." He also considers how that just afore Christ's return racially mixed marriages are to be a problem (Dan. 2:43,43; Matt. 24:37-39), & after Christ's return there will be new race based nations (Zech. 14:17; Rev. 5:9,10;21:24,26;21:2). Gavin further considers "four curious arguments used by" miscegenationists e.g. Rahab & Ruth in Matt. 1:5.
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Gavin McGrath (b. 1960) is a graduate of Sydney University, University of Western Sydney, and Moore Theological College (a Reformed Anglican College in Sydney) in New South Wales, Australia. From April 2020, he is a retired school teacher of both New South Wales, Australia, and...
