LOVE VS RELIGION; Understanding The Lineage - Heritage of Jesus Christ
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Struggles with racial and interracial marriages is a direct connection RELIGIOUS PRACTICE.
Yesterday, I received a question from a young man who I have been mentoring in studying the King James Bible and praying he get out of his CHURCH Building operation which happens to be a Baptist church.
This man told me he struggles with being judgmental in looking at appearances ranging from fat people or tattoos and specifically mentioned interracial marriages or couples dating.
I wrote to him: " I’m not blaming Baptists in total but another reason among hundreds why I’ve pleaded with you to GET OUT OF THESE APOSTATE CHURCH OPERATIONS like that Baptist church with your Pastor and the others is because they will deny this but the truth is they are built on the TRADITION of man and creeds going back to the Nicaean Creed.
They change and morph like a virus but the reason they cling onto their creeds is to maintain their money laundering 501C3 operation.
Anyway, Jesus Christ’s FAMILY HERITAGE LINEAGE (not blood line of DNA because Jesus Christ was not of HUMAN dna but your pastors do not understand this and call him fully human) has 4 FOREIGN lineages and NOT PURE breds he came from an INTERMARRIAGE HERITAGE. SO every time you think interracial marriages are a problem then you think JESUS CHRIST is a problem.
See my study on JESUS CHRIST WAS NOT HUMAN:
https://www.thethirdheaventraveler.com/2022/09/he-that-hath-seen-me-hath-seen-father.html
So let’s talk about the GOOD OLE BOY BAPTIST BOYS . (note all RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS are biased and racist) but let’s get into my notes:
Foreign (Non-Israelite) Women in the Lineage of Jesus Christ
Matthew 1:1 KJV "... The Generation G1078 (Lineage of ancestry, line of descent..) of Jesus Christ..."
lineage(n.)
late 17c., from Middle English linage "line of descent; an ancestor" (c. 1300), from Old French lignage "descent, extraction, race" (11c.), from ligne "line," from Latin linea "line of descent," literally "string, line, thread"
ancestry(n.)
"series or line of ancestors, descent from ancestors," early 14c., auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie "ancestry, ancestors, forefathers,"
Matthew uniquely highlights four women in a patriarchal Jewish genealogy (Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba—"her that had been the wife of Urias"). Three of them were Gentiles (foreigners/non-Israelites), which stands out because Jewish genealogies typically traced only male lines and emphasized purity of descent:
Tamar (v. 3): A Canaanite woman (Genesis 38). She disguised herself as a prostitute to bear children by Judah after being wronged in the family. *
Rahab (v. 5, spelled "Rachab" in KJV): A Canaanite from Jericho (Joshua 2, 6). She was a prostitute who hid Israelite spies and joined Israel through faith (Hebrews 11:31; James 2:25).
Ruth (v. 5): A Moabitess (Ruth 1–4). Moabites were traditionally excluded from Israel's assembly (Deuteronomy 23:3), yet Ruth became the great-grandmother of David through her loyalty and faith.
Bathsheba (v. 6, "her that had been the wife of Urias"): Likely a Hittite by association (Uriah was a Hittite), though her ethnicity is debated; she is included amid David's sin.
NOTE on TAMAR: Judah, son of Jacob, leaves his brothers and settles among the Canaanites. He marries a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, who bears him three sons: Er, Onan, and Shelah. When Er comes of age, Judah chooses another local Canaanite woman named Tamar as his wife.
God puts Er to death for wickedness. Following levirate custom, Judah orders Onan to raise up offspring for his dead brother by impregnating Tamar. Onan deliberately refuses and God kills him too. Judah, now fearing for his youngest son Shelah, tells Tamar to remain a widow until Shelah grows up, but secretly intends never to give him to her.
Years pass. Judah’s Canaanite wife dies. Tamar, realizing Judah will not fulfill his promise, removes her widow’s garments, veils herself, and sits by the road as a prostitute. Judah, not recognizing her, propositions her and leaves his signet, bracelets, and staff as pledge. They have intercourse; Tamar conceives.
Three months later Judah hears his daughter-in-law “hath played the harlot” and is pregnant. He demands she be burned. Tamar quietly sends him his own pledges, saying, “By the man whose these are, am I with child.” Judah confesses, “She hath been more righteous than I,” because he withheld Shelah.
Tamar bears twins. Perez breaks forth first; through Perez, the half-Canaanite son of Judah and his Canaanite daughter-in-law, comes the royal line of David and, ultimately, the Messiah—proof that God’s chosen lineage deliberately flows through scandal, Gentiles, and broken human vessels rather than ethnic purity
These inclusions are remarkable. God's redemptive plan incorporates Gentiles and "outsiders" (even those from cursed or enemy nations like Canaan and Moab) into the royal line leading to the Messiah. This underscores themes of grace, faith over ethnicity, and God's sovereignty in using unlikely people. It foreshadows the Gospel going to all nations (Matthew 28:19) and the unity of Jew and Gentile in Christ (Galatians 3:28; Ephesians 2:11–22).
Connection to Baptist History and Opposition to Interracial Marriage
The presence of Gentile women like Rahab and Ruth directly counters arguments that the Bible mandates racial separation or forbids "mixing" of peoples in marriage. Yet, segments of Baptist history—particularly in the American South—used twisted interpretations of Scripture (e.g., the "curse of Ham" in Genesis 9, misapplied to Black people, or vague appeals to "kinds" and separation) to justify opposition to interracial marriage.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Baptist denomination, was founded in 1845 explicitly to defend slavery and allow slaveholding missionaries (splitting from Northern Baptists who opposed it). For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the SBC reflected Southern cultural attitudes: supporting white supremacy, segregation, and viewing interracial marriage as unbiblical or an "abomination." Some leaders cited the Bible to argue God intended racial separation. The SBC did not fully integrate its seminaries until the 1950s, and opposition to interracial marriage lingered in many churches even after legal segregation ended.
In 1995, on its 150th anniversary, the SBC formally repented: it issued a resolution apologizing for its role in slavery, defending racism, opposing civil rights, and hindering relationships with African Americans. It denounced racism as sin and called for reconciliation. The denomination has since become more diverse (about 20–25% non-white congregations) and no longer opposes interracial marriage as an institution.
However, in more extreme fundamentalist/independent Baptist circles (often KJV-only and influenced by figures outside mainstream SBC leadership):
Peter Ruckman (1921–2016), a highly influential Independent Fundamental Baptist pastor and KJV-only advocate, was repeatedly called out for racist teachings. He wrote books and bulletins defending segregation, opposing "race mixing," and claiming Black people had inherently lower IQs or were under a curse. He explicitly taught against interracial marriage, used racial slurs (including the n-word), and defended these views biblically in works like Segregation or Integration and Discrimination: The Key to Sanity. Critics (including former followers and anti-racism watchdogs) labeled him a white supremacist; even some defenders acknowledge his language was inflammatory, though they sometimes downplay it.
William Grady, another KJV-only Baptist author (e.g., Final Authority), has been criticized in similar circles for promoting conspiracy-laden views that overlap with racist ideologies and opposing interracial marriage as defying God's order of "nations" and "kinds." He has been accused of echoing Ruckmanite separatism.
These views were never mainstream SBC doctrine but persisted in hyper-fundamentalist offshoots (e.g., some Independent Fundamental Baptist churches, or institutions like Bob Jones University—an independent fundamentalist school with Baptist ties—that banned interracial dating until 2000, citing biblical principles). Such teachings ignored the clear biblical inclusion of Gentiles in God's plan (as seen in Jesus' own lineage) and Paul's declaration that in Christ "there is neither Jew nor Greek... for ye are all one" (Galatians 3:28).
In summary, Matthew 1 powerfully illustrates God's grace crossing ethnic barriers—Rahab the Canaanite and Ruth the Moabitess are celebrated ancestors of the Messiah. This biblical truth stands in stark contrast to the racist distortions used by some Baptists historically to oppose interracial marriage, distortions that the broader Baptist tradition (especially the SBC) has officially rejected and repented of.
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