But you will do it in a minute.
We bring you a letter, and oh, what a letter. It’s so good that you’ll want to print it, study it, and share it. It’s a masterful polemic by Harry Seabrook and is a response to a certifiably insane sermon series, which itself was a response to a letter from Harry to Joe Morecraft, which itself was a response to a couple of articles on “racism” that Morecraft published. The score is Harry 2, Preachers 0, and the fat lady is about to sing if she can rise from her chair.
Pull up a warm fire and prepare for a fascinating half-hour of reading. A couple of good companion pieces are on John Piper and Raping Sacred Scripture.
Harry is deeply vexed by what has happened to Southern Presbyterians, and he is driven to conserve what is being lost. This is why he devotes so much time to refuting the seminary communists.
Much of the document’s value comes from being a response to a sermon series that was actually preached rather than a series of ideas that we know are widely held but could be easily denied. This shows that there are not only preachers who believe such filth but are preaching it as gospel!
Still, there may be objections yet to be explored. For instance, what would be the response to one who asks, “Okay, I see that miscegenation is wrong, but why can’t we simply call for it to be outlawed as a violation of natural law rather than an explicit sin?” This would be a good topic for discussion in the comments.
Happy Thanksgiving! Praise the Lord for His mercy and grace.
Thank you.
It’s good to know that men like Harry Seabrook are on the front in defense of the gospel. As fathers, we must work toward this goal and bring up our (many) children in the light of this truth so they may carry on the Lord’s work.
Happy Thanksgiving to all the clanns. The Lord is good.
The pastor at the multi-cultural Independent Baptist church that we just left is stating from the pulpit that inter-racial marriages are not sinful.
Thank you SWB for spreading the truth.
Well said.
I don’t remember anything about race in the Ten Commandments.
I don’t remember Jesus saying anything about race.
I can’t believe interracial marriage is sinful, for that is not the law of my God.
A stunning rebuttal, Gabriel. After I’ve had a chance to sit for a spell and collect my thoughts, I’ll propose that you be awarded the title of Bible Scholar of the Year. Well done.
Wow, what a collosal waste of time. A couple meaningless people, at most, will be pissed off, then it will be brushed aside and forgotten about a week from now.
Very sad though. Reminds me of the type-writer scene in Stanley Kubrick’s, “The Shining”. Just don’t kill your family, ok admin?
“I don’t remember anything about race in the Ten Commandments.
I don’t remember Jesus saying anything about race.
I can’t believe interracial marriage is sinful, for that is not the law of my God.”
They have eyes and they dont see…
ALL the scriptures are about A RACE : OUR WHITE RACE!!
“The verses of Exodus 20:14 and Romans 13:9 are translated in most versions of the Bible as: “You may not commit adultery.” The word adultery was created and is unique to Biblical language. In daily use the word is never used. In the Greek Septuagint the word is written as “interbreed” The Anointed Translation of the New Testament that boasts of containing the TRUE translation of the Ten Commandments, it is written: “You may not interbreed.”
The writings we are dealing with here are the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate. The first was used in the translation of the Bible shortly after the Gospels were written. The latter came into being centuries later in the Catholic Church and is used in the New Afrikaans Translation and which is causing much conflict.
To understand and translate this particular Commandment, we must look at the Greek word that has been translated into Afrikaans as “adultery.”
Two words, “ou moicheusels” are used in the Greek Septuagint. In the Latin Vulgate, Exodus 20:14 is translated as “non moechaberis” and in Romans 13:9 as “non adulterabis.” The Latin word moechaberis is of little etymological importance, as it merely depends on the meaning of the Greek word moicheuo. Moechaberis is a transliteration of the word.
The Latin word mostly used to translate moicheuo, is adulterabis, a derivative of the Latin word adultero. Thus these two words that we must find the true meaning of to understand what the Sixth Commandment really means.” (Annelize Snyman; The Sixth Law.)
Read this absolute proof about the sixth commandment here :
http://newensign.christogenea.org/site/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=6&Itemid=28
Search for “The Sixth Law” and READ.
Excellent read; unfortunate that we all know it will be ignored. The modern American “Christianity” will never deal in good faith with Kinist arguments because they know they cannot win, and thus they must resort to slander, strawmen, and force in their interactions with us.
“I don’t remember anything about race in the Ten Commandments.
I don’t remember Jesus saying anything about race.
I can’t believe interracial marriage is sinful, for that is not the law of my God.”
For someone to have so entirely and completely missed the point… it’s just amazing.
I do not see that translation here-
http://bible.cc/exodus/20-14.htm
But I do see
“Do not be false to the married relation.”
and a dozen or so of the standard
“Thou shalt not commit adultery”
I have no interest in the words of men.
I only believe the word of God.
Gabriel,
Do you see in that verse “It is okay to have your father’s wife”? Do you see there the criteria of “the married relation?” Or must we look to case law to fill in and define the summary laws in the main 10?
In a word, you cannot appeal to a summary law to preclude its exemplary cases that are given elsewhere.
If you have any trouble opening the file, it means that you don’t have a PDF reader installed. The best of these is Foxit:
http://download.cnet.com/Foxit-Reader/3000-10743_4-10313206.html?part=dl-116442&subj=dl&tag=button/
That’s an .exe file I’m not touching it.
If it’s in the word of God just give me reference.
That wasn’t a personal message for you, genius.
“After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites. They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness.”
When I heard this, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled.” — Ezra 9:1-3
Thank you Admin for posting this great resource. I read it once and I will read it again to mine its excellent and helpful content. I will be asking God to give strength to Brothers Harry Seabrook and Randy Jamison as they go through this unjust persecution. It is lamentable that a great part of the Christian Church accepts the Tower of Babel through the influence of liberal/secularist beliefs and lack of Biblical knowledge on the issue of race and ethnicity.
I love the following quotes from the paper:
“Pentecost sanctified the legitimacy of separate nationality rather than saying this is something we should outgrow… In fact, even in the new earth to come, after the Second Coming of Christ, we are told that the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of the heavenly Jerusalem, and the kings of the earth shall bring the glory and the honor—the cultural treasures—of the nations into it… But nowhere in Scripture are any indications to be found that such peoples should ever be amalgamated into one huge nation.” -Francis Nigel Lee
“In both the Church on earth and in eternity, distinct nations continue. Pentecost did not obviate their existence. By definition, nations have a familial core, or else they are mixed multitudes, which are always short-lived. This is why Psalms 22:27-28 and 96:7 refer to the “families of nations” through which God works providentially.” -Harry Seabrook
“Blood covenants are vital for advancing the kingdom of God. Blood covenants are vital for advancing the kingdom of God. As J.C. Ryle has written, “Community of blood is a most powerful tie.” Common heritage is God’s instrument for creating the conditions whereby the gospel may flourish and our covenant children may be raised in peace and safety among a cooperative people who are bound to their ancestors as much as they are bound to their own posterity. This is why “the kings of the nations” are to be found “every one in his own house” (Isaiah 14:18). “And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, each man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba” (1 Kings 4:25). Each man’s vine and fig tree corresponds to each nation’s branch and banner. This is the antithesis of Babel, and it is a fundamentally trinitarian rather than unitarian worldview. Our Lord did not pray that we would be united even as the Roman Empire was united. Instead, we are to attain to the unity of the Trinity, which is a complex and differentiated unity. The proof for this is that on Pentecost, the apostles preached the gospel in different languages under the power of the Holy Spirit. The gospel makes nations, it doesn’t erase them.” -Harry Seabrook
Gabriel: If Christ didn’t explicitly condemn something in the New Testament, and it’s not condemned in the Ten Commandments, does that mean it’s OK? By that reasoning, we’d have to say that homosexualty is OK. And, as a matter of fact, that’s exactly what homosexuals who cite the Bible sometimes try to do.
But that doesn’t fly because, as the Apostle Paul said, all of the Bible is the word of God. As Christ is God, what He said in Genesis, unless He later repealed it, is just as authoritative as what He said in the Gospels.
This post has provided a good overview of the whole counsel of God on interracial marriage. If you think this overview is incorrect, please tell us why. Your feelings about “my God” are not persuasive.
Furthermore, one can make a case that Christ in the New Testament did make a statement against racial mixing when He condemned the doctrine of Balaam, i.e. the blending of Israel and Moab. Also in the Ten Commandments we read: “Honor thy father and thy mother.” As we read in Genesis, Esau did no honor to his parents when he married outside of his people. Indeed he caused them “great grief.” Also in the Commandments we read, “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” In the book of Hosea God charges Israel with “whoredom” for mixing and producing “strange” children. The Hebrew word translated “whoredom,” according to Strong’s, can also be translated “to commit adultery.”
God Bless you, Harry, but when will you stop casting your pearls before swine? I do not refer to the loyal reader, nor my Kinist bretheren, but to the idolatrous, pulpit-worshipping frauds called “preachers.” There is no redeeming them with the truth, nor with reproach, because they love the pulpit. When they stand behind their oaken totem and pour out great swelling words over loud speakers, they belong to the audience and the world. They are nothing but third-rate actors working Sunday matinees. Try this some time: Hold a preacher eye-to-eye when confronting him with errors in his doctrine. He will flinch and look away every time and retreat behind a lame platitude about “brotherhood” or “fellowship” or “love”. Preachers– useless, vapid bladders.
Consider the contrast between an American pulpit bladder and the fine Russian Orthodox priest, Father Daniil Sysoyev, who was murdered in his own church probably by a Muslim assassin. My heart ached for the loss of a true man of faith and a genuine servant of our Lord. This priest was converting White Muslims and openly debating with cultists and Muslim clerics. His devotion was to Jesus Christ and the Word and NOT to “brotherhood of all faiths” nor to worldly “love”. May God give him his riches in heaven… The preacher at a church I no longer attend wanted to hold dialogues with the imam at a nearby mosque. To what end? Joint services? Does anyone believe he would debate with the infidel?
Good call, Beauregarde, with that description of preachers as bladders and actors. When the Church faces serious persecution, the bladders are nowhere to be found, and yet the Church grows and transforms society. It would be a huge mistake for anyone to consider the race-mixing, MLK clones in the pulpits today as representatives of Christ’s Church on earth.
Admin, I think we have a clear direction regarding miscegenation in this reality of what the Church truly is: a living, Spiritual organisim, as you describe “which grows and transforms [the] society” where it is planted.
The pattern of the Church is nations of kindreds which are built up on the Apostolic and Prophetic foundations, our Lord being the chief cornerstone and the Rock set upon Him. Certainly individuals are incorporated into this pattern. However kindreds and nations of kindreds are the pillars of human identity itself and confer ethnic identity, history and culture, family (lineage), gender expressions and roles.
Their Christian faith crowns all of these as grace crowns nature.
It is difficult to see how the Church can grow and transform society – especially a multicultural society, unless it can restore these pillars of human identity to atomized individuals (stripped of nation (ethnic legacy), family, gender by a century of social engineering and brainwashing) and crown this restoration with faith.
Humanity is of one blood from which God created the races in their nations Acts 17:26, this fact alone does not make race and nation irrelevant to the Christian life. In our post modern and Revolutionary social reality, this truth is become even more dear because it is under assault on all fronts from the gates of hell. So, I think it is reasonable to suppose that the burden of proof in a congregation or faith community should definitely be upon those seeking marriage outside of their race as to how their union can serve the Church in its restoration of all things in Christ.
Omnia Instarare in Christo is the cause of the hour. How do inter-racial marriages restore the life of nations – ethnic peoples that have been destroyed by over a century of atheistic brainwashing, liberalism, social engineering, multiculturalism, republican revolutions, materialism and so on.
I think to make sense of the Church as a universal polity or order, you have to have nations that are strong in the foundations of human identity. Proposed marriages that contribute to the general social disintegration of the West do have a case to answer to their pastors and to their own kindred.
This said – pronouncing inter-racial marriage to be an explicit sin carries a warning label of the type that Cambria has been writing about of late in the essays: “Vision” Nov 21, 09 and “Prisoners of the Dialectic” Nov 28, 09. http://cambriawillnityield.blogspot.com.
Sin pronouncements in this area run a great risk of being used dialectically against the faith.
“Alas” wrote Chaucer “that e’er love was sinne”. Yet in the morals and customary laws of the European nations, the father and head of the home did consent (or not) to any prospective husband who sought the hand of his daughter in marriage. And failure of obedience to the head of the house fell in the province of the Top Ten – specifically honour thy father and thy mother. That would seem to be straightforward in the times when European nations had the Christian faith.
St Jehann d’Arc a mere girl of 16 years, even with the direct order from St Michael the Archangel to make war upon the enemies of France, still had to receive the permission of both her father and her bishop to dress herself in male clothing and go off to speak to the French military elite about the Archangel’s decision to take command of the French army – at that time losing upon all fronts. This is history – the depositions of her trial are in the national archives of France.
Whatever the exception may be, in the Christian family, there is no way around the fathers consent or not. Also, there are few matters of greater and more vital interest to a Christian society than the courtships of the young men and women. Traditionally, the community spares no effort or expense to give the young people a space for meeting and courtship under the oversight of those who have a huge stake in a good marriage for every one of them – namely prospective grandparents.
At any highland Celeidh the young women are given dance cards for every young man in attendance – dances which their elders expect to be claimed. Every young woman is given time and opportunity to dance with every young man in attendance. None of this sitting there all evening and just watching for the less attractive and less popular girls. None of this hanging out in the parking lot smoking for the young men who can not step up and meet the young women they are there to meet. It is the community which has the interest in these occaisions.
Today, however, the ship of the multicultural society and state has sailed well beyond the edges of tradition. Sexual liasons even of young Christians would seem to have no reference to the Decalogue. Like on the old nautical maps of the flat earth where the ocean ends and the beyond carries a designation: ‘here be dragons’. This is where we are now – in uncharted sociological space. Young women no longer reside under the parental roof until they are married. Fathers do not necessarily give consent to a prospective groom.
If the course of true love never did run smooth, the course of inter-racial courtships even with a view to betrothal and marriage is a course extremely fraught with difficulties. And the young people tend to negotiate these on their own terms without reference to parental authority.
An outcome long and strategically forseen is the current gender war, collapse of marriage and destruction of the white family. This catastrophe has been foisted upon the white race by Jewry (in its ownership of all media and dominance of the educational system). The Frankfort School and Tavistock Institute are the key refs here.
In the present collapse, the parents will be fortunate indeed if they are even invited to the wedding – much less give consent. But even this sentiment is too fuddy duddy and retro. Let me amend that to – the parents will be fortunate indeed if they learn whether or not their daughter is presently shacked up with her current boyfriend.
The concern of the Church here are sins against purity – namely fornication and the commandment to honour thy father and thy mother.
It is difficult to imagine a father or mother giving consent to an inter-racial marriage. What of the grandchildren? Where will they fit in? What kind of identity will they have? etc. But the question of inter-racial marriage indeed belongs in this area of authority. And it is not too difficult to think that in terms of the present sociopathology there would be single mothers, divorced re-married fathers, absent parents too busy with their current lovers who would give consent to an inter-racial marriage if they were asked.
On the Board Game of life, the white Christians are sitting upon the square marked Slough of Despond. The answer is to revive the faith itself. With the revival of the faith comes the Ten Commandments, the teaching of the Church on purity, modesty (especially feminine modesty, behaviour and attire). This would go a long way towards solving the interracial marriage question.
All Hail for St Andrew’s Day and the Feast of the Apostle St Andrew on the Universal Calendar of the West – November 30.
Somewhere in the world the congregation stands for the procession of the Cross with piobaireachd (piping) of the massed Highland pipes for the Ceol Mor (Great Music).
I always think of St Andrew with that hymn Slane – the English words many would know as “Be Thou my Vision”. His last testament recorded by his clergy at the time of his martyrdom is commemorated in the holy liturgy of his Feast Day Nov 30 and some of his history.
The Apostle Andrew, the brother of Peter was born at Bethsiada in the Galilee. He was a disciple of the Baptist. After our Lord’s passion, death and resurrection, the lot of Scythia fell to the saint for his Apostolic labours. The people of Scotia are a Scythian people and they migrated to Scotia that is Scotland.
He was martyred at Patras in Achaia by crucifixion upon a cross / saltire or X gallows. According to the witnesses of his martyrdom he hung alive upon the cross for two days for the Name of Christ. He prayed with loud voice “Thou art my God whom I have beheld : suffer not the unjust judge to take me down before I die for now I am learning the power of Thy holy cross.” http://www.breviary.net.
Good comment. We’ve written lately about “pastors” who have the rules exactly reversed. They are saying that parents are in sin for not allowing their children to marry outside the race. But no one can really honor his parents if he is not willing to give honor in at least this regard: that his parents, and especially his father, have the right to determine what kind of people will be brought into the family.
As liberals have progressed beyond “consensual marriage” (no parents involved in the decision) they have made allowances under the penalty of law for “consensual sex.” But in both the Bible and in history, there is no concept of “consensual sex.” Even if you tried to marry someone who your father forbade you to marry, and saved sex for the wedding night, you were still the perpetrator and/or the victim of rape. As Martin Bucer said, “The laws of the early church and of pious emperors define it as rape if anyone joins a woman to himself in matrimony without the knowledge and consent of parents, even if the woman consents.”
But as you said, in our time we need to return to first principles, because there are many parents who would gladly consent to such outrages, having been indoctrinated all their lives by Jews, and by Christians who have lost all sense of propriety. It’s hard to know where to turn when even pastors are preaching lies, but this is why Kinists devote so much time to returning the hearts of the sons to their fathers, so to speak.
I completely agree with nearly all the beliefs held by Kinists and thoroughly enjoy reading the postings on this website. Thank you for this necessary work that so many “Christians” are too cowardly to undertake. I have a question on which I would appreciate your input: Obviously interracial marriage (between whites and non-whites) is an abomination that is destroying society, but should similar restrictions be assumed for whites of different nationalities? By this I mean should distinct European nationalities be thought of as distinct and separate, or are they close enough as to be only negligibly different. I certainly wouldn’t lump this topic together with the sinful intermarriage more commonly discussed on this site, but would national purity beyond mere racial purity be a higher goal that we are striving for as well? Any thoughts that readers might have on the subject would be appreciated.
Admin,
Dr. Morecraft reminds me of me, 5 years ago. I too was a mindless champion of ‘diversity’ AND racial integration at the same time; and I just did not see the inherent contradiction of my position. It is amazing to me, the inroads marxism has made in the church. It should be obvious to everyone that diversity will only flourish with less integration. And, racial integration, if actively encouraged, will only kill and stifle diversity. There is no way to have both at the same time, and in the same way, without violating the iron-clad laws of logic.
And yet God is engaged in producing an over-arching spiritual unity through the gospel, that will eventually produce peace and goodwill among all the many tribes of the earth. Spiritual unity, AND ALSO physical diversity. And all to the glory of God!Pray for our preachers.. they may be the last ones to see this, simply because they all went to seminaries infected with the radical equality dogma of marxism. Poor souls.
I hear you, Randall, and truthfully, I like Morecraft a lot. I don’t like to fault anyone for simply believing the wrong thing, nor even for teaching it, necessarily. Not a single one of us can say that we have all the answers, and so a large degree of charity is required.
But I’ve hobnobbed with preachers enough to know that many of them are well aware of what their forefathers believed, what the Bible actually says about these things, and what has actually worked in history, and they willfully choose to lie about it, because they have everything to gain by doing so. I wish I weren’t so cynical, but experience has jaded me.
Still, your advice is good. We do need to pray for them.
Peter,
I believe that a faithful and consistent Kinism seeks to preserve the tribal identity of a people. The uniqueness and integrity of the various European Tribes should be defended (and of all the other non-European tribes of the earth by their respective peoples, incidentally). When I read the Scriptures, I see that our Great God loves the diversity that he has created. As you know, God even established boundaries and separated the sons of Jacob into twelve different tribes who were commanded not to intermix. The Spanish, French, German, Irish, English, Italian, Russian, and other European nations should embrace and conserve their ethnic characteristics for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. This means that, if someone is of German ancestry he should marry someone of German ancestry. The higher goal then, is to maintain and keep the singularity of one’s tribe/ethnicity/nation. God willing, one day I will marry a Christian woman of my kin who is, preferably, a first or second cousin of mine.
Peter, this is where the Fifth Commandment becomes crucial. No one should ever think that marriage is merely a union of two individuals. There are many more people involved, not to mention generations still to come, as is also true in the sacraments, and wisdom should always be sought from parents, elders, and even ancestors. This should be our approach to lawkeeping in general. We ought to realize that we will be the ancestors of those who will come after us, and so we should never fail to walk in the ways of our ancestors, whenever possible. Being a good ancestor is much more important than being a good citizen.
Of course, the Fifth Commandment applies to racial intermarriage as well, because there has never, in the history of the world, been a father who really wanted his child to cross a racial boundary. Not ever. There are some who agree to force a smile, and some of these are zealots who consider it a cross to carry because their pastors have lied to them. But no one has ever considered it to be better than homogeneity. Even the race-mixers themselves admit that it’s fraught with problems.
“We should never fail to walk in the ways of our ancestors, whenever possible. Being a good ancestor is much more important than being a good citizen.”
Unless those ancestors are pre-Christian pagans. I guess walking in the ways of their ancestors just “wasn’t possible” for the first Europeans who converted to Christianity and then forced it on everyone else by violence. Interesting.
Hence the words “whenever possible.” Choosing death over life is unacceptable. But what was best about our pagan ancestors we certainly have retained. As we’ve said many times, pagans and neo-pagans understand some things that some Christians have forgotten, or willfully choose to lie about.
But to wholly return to the pre-Christian slop? Inconceivable. Hebrews 6:
“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.”
If you really care about the white race, you’ll help them to live by heeding these words. Otherwise, stop boring us with your gene-thumping. By your own admission, your genes will not save you from certain death. So what kind of snake oil are you selling?
By the way, it fascinates me when those who have no standard for law other than their own navel get huffy about violence. What they really mean is that they don’t want any laws enforced except for the ones they personally care about. This is libertarianism, and no society has ever been ordered by it. But that’s just the tip of it. If they can’t explain the basis of law, they also can’t explain, objectively, why violence against anyone is bad. All they really know is that they hate Jesus Christ. And this is why they love death, despite their gesticulations about the glories of the white race. Racialism is just a cover for their own megalomania.
“The Spanish, French, German, Irish, English, Italian, Russian, and other European nations should embrace and conserve their ethnic characteristics for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. This means that, if someone is of German ancestry he should marry someone of German ancestry. The higher goal then, is to maintain and keep the singularity of one’s tribe/ethnicity/nation. God willing, one day I will marry a Christian woman of my kin who is, preferably, a first or second cousin of mine.”
Oscar, I hope you are jesting. The tables of affinity (say, in the old BCP) forbade marriage of first and even second cousins- both from a genetic standpoint (which we now know) as well as from the Biblical standpoint.
However, your comment in the main, is apt. Just as Gehazi was sent back to find a bride for Isaac from among Abraham’s ‘own people’ it is not so surprising that, in earlier days, you would often marry ‘one of your own’- whether that was via extended family, or in the town in which the ‘founding families’ are/were all more or less inter-related by marriage. In my case, I found after the fact that, while I was of Scots extraction, and sought assiduously to marry a good Scandinavian girl from my home town,(share religious, cultural, ethnic, and racial particulars) it turns out that our family’s part of Scotland was ruled by Norway for 500 years- so, I actually DID marry ‘in-tribe’ as it were! I only learned this some ten years after the fact, so clearly, God’s providence, and not mine, brought that about, because in the 1980′s, I sought to be faithful to the example of Isaac as I read it in Scripture, when I made up my mind to search for a ‘helpmeet’….
Fr. John,
Pardon me for responding to your post until now.
I am glad that you agree with my comments in the main. I was not jesting when I stated that I would prefer a first or second cousin as my wife. I disagree with your statement that first or second cousin marriage is forbidden from a “Biblical standpoint”. The Law of God clearly does not prohibit it. Chapters 18 and 20 in the book of Leviticus and chapter 27 in Deuteronomy for example, does not outlaw the practice. God is not displeased with first or second cousins joining themselves in the covenant of marriage. The following examples are faithful to God’s Law: the Patriarch Isaac married his first cousins Rachel and Leah, the daughters of Eleazar married their first cousins (1 Chronicles 23:21-22), and the five daughters of Zelophedad married “the sons of their father’s brothers” (Numbers 36:11).
I do not accept as authoritative the Book of Common Prayer and genetic studies. The Word of God is my sole authority in life, faith, and practice.