A couple of days ago, Joel Webbon said, “I am AGAINST interracial marriage.That is to say, I believe interracial marriage “generally” goes against God’s normative design for humanity, nations, and cultures.”
One of the most prevailing myths in evangelicalism is that worldliness is a distinctly leftist trait. Worldliness is any personal, cultural, or political thing that makes us stray from the narrow road of Christ, from the Left or the Right. The Right side exit off the narrow road is just as worldly and deadly as the Left side.
In that way, Joel Webbon is no different from Russell Moore. He might not be seeking approval from leftists, but he is seeking approval from white nationalists and “black pill” Manosphere men like Nick Fuentes.
In the aforementioned social media post, he also said, “The average Christian woman on social media is retarded.”
I am used to reading those kinds of words from black pill men who hate Christ and Christian women. But Nick Fuentes didn’t say that. Andrew Tate didn’t say that. Joel Webbon, a “Christian” husband, father, and pastor, said—and defended—that.
Many men have debased themselves by trying to be “based.” Being “based” is quickly becoming a new version of “culturally relevant.” Desiring to be culturally relevant, some professing Christians became supportive of unions that God condemns—gay “marriages.” And desiring to be based, people like Joel Webbon are condemning marriages that God supports: “interracial” marriages.
People who celebrate what God condemns and those who condemn what God celebrates are both abominations to God (Proverbs 17:15). Although their cultural and political motivations may differ, their spiritual motivations are identical. They think they know better than God.
Joel Webbon is against “interracial” marriage, but God is not. There are several examples of God blessing interracial marriages in the Bible, such as Joseph and his Egyptian wife, Salmon and Rahab, Boaz and Ruth, and Moses and his Ethiopian wife.
I think God made his support for “interracial” marriage fairly clear when he cursed Miriam and Aaron, not Moses and his Ethiopian wife, with leprosy for using interethnic marriage as a basis for their resistance to his authority. God didn’t rebuke the interethnic couple; he cursed the people, condemning them.
Joel Webbon says these are the exceptions to the rule. But he must mean his rule, not God’s. The Bible doesn’t forbid interracial marriage. That is because it doesn’t exist. The Bible and all of history do not have any record of an interracial marriage.
There is no such thing as interracial marriage because there is no such thing as biologically distinct human races.
The concept of biologically distinct racial groups is a liberal concept that is completely foreign to scripture. It’s a theory from liberal scientists, not scripture. In fact, it’s just as pseudoscientific as the concept of transgenderism.
The idea that multiple, biologically distinct racial groups exist is just as scientifically and biblically illiterate as the belief that there are more than 2 genders.
I don’t think people have considered that the pseudoscience of transgenderism would not exist if it weren’t for the original pseudoscientific conclusions of the modern concept of race. Just as the concept of race was invented in the 18th century to justify slavery, the concept of transgenderism was invented in the 1960s to justify and normalize sexual deviancy through the sexual revolution.
It’s not just bad science to believe in multiple human races; it’s bad theology. It’s crucial to understand that. It contradicts what the Bible says about our relations with each other and Christ. We are all one race in Adam (Acts 17:26). Our shared race in Adam is the basis for why Jesus is able to be the saviour of all humanity (Hebrews 2:11-18).
If Jesus doesn’t share the same race as every sinner, then he cannot be our saviour. Either Jesus is the saviour of one unified human race—or he’s only the saviour of one race among many.
There are many skin colours, many ethnicities, many cultures, and many nations. But there is only one race. My skin colour is “black,” my ethnicity is Akan, my nationality is Ghanaian-Canadian, but my race is human.
Like progressive “Christians” who twist the Bible for cultural and political agendas, Joel Webbon has suggested that he is against “interracial” marriage because of the decreasing population of white people in the world.
But that is another consequence of a poor understanding of the Bible and history. God doesn’t command us to preserve our insignificant polygenic traits. He commands us to be fruitful and multiply—not as white people or black people, but as the human race.
Also, people who think it is their righteous duty to preserve white people (or any other people) make the silly assumption that every group of people in the world today has always existed.
According to Answers in Genesis, Adam, Eve, and Noah and his family were likely dark-skinned people. The people we call “white people” probably didn’t exist until hundreds of years to a thousand years after some of Noah’s descendants lived in Europe. In fact, white people were not the norm in Europe until the emergence of Germanic and Celtic peoples about 2,000 years ago.
We shouldn’t prioritize 2,000 years of history over eternity. There is only one chosen race, one holy nation, and one people for God’s own possession that will always exist (1 Peter 2:9). They are not the white “race” or black “race” or any other made-up race. They are the people who share the blood of Christ.
People who love their king more than their kin will echo what Charles Spurgeon said: “Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.”
I want my children to look like me, but I want them to look more like Christ.
That is why I am married to a godly white woman. Our marriage wouldn’t be any more honouring to God if she were a godly black woman. The only difference it would make is that she would start buying cocoa butter, not sunscreen.