The problem here is not whether or not a married couple is interracial, inter-ethnic, or, originating from two different nations but whether or not both spouses are of the same religious faith. In this case, if a Jew and Gentile both abide in the same religious faith, there should be no reason for conflict on either a spiritual, doctrinal, or theological level.
The problem arises when one spouse adheres to a religious faith different from that of the other as there can nothing more divisive than clashing spiritualities as one’s faith and the doctrines thereof affect sets the basis for moral and ethical choices, priorities, and even how children are brought up and when two people adhering to different faiths marry, there is bound to be doctrinal, philosophical, moral, ethical, and interest clashes which subjects the marriage to instability and likely even failure which is why scripture states, “Be not unequally yoked with the unbelieving.” (2 Cor. 6:14)
Yet far too often amongst professing Christians, scripture is disregarded as some naively and foolishly justify choosing an unbeliever to marry by thinking that by joining to them in marriage they might be able to persuade them to come to Christ but this almost never happens and the professing Christian is forced to choose between their devotion to Christ or the unbelieving spouse and tragically, they abandon their service to Christ to appease the unbelieving spouse because they never trusted God enough to provide them a suitable spouse for them to begin with; their reasoning for marrying the unbelieving spouse often being founded on superficialities and not on that which actually holds a marriage together: Love for one another, trustworthiness, spiritual, moral, and doctrinal compatibility, and like-minded priorities.
In the case of those professors of the faith who have unbelieving spouse, the Apostle Paul advises the saints that in such cases that if the unbelieving spouse wishes to remain married to them in spite of an unwavering devotion to Christ on the part of the believer, that they should remain together, but if the unbelieving spouse wishes to depart from the believing spouse, then let them depart as the believing spouse is not bound to the unbeliever in the same sense that they would be if both spouses followed Christ (1 Cor. 7:12-15) and therefore is free to marry again but this time, it must only be to a devoted follower of Christ.
https://jewsforjesus.org/publications/inherit/finding-spiritual-harmony-in-your-interfaith-relationship The problem here is not whether or not a married couple is interracial, inter-ethnic, or, originating from two different nations but whether or not both spouses are of the same religious faith. In this case, if a Jew and Gentile both abide in the same religious faith, there should be no reason for conflict on either a spiritual, doctrinal, or theological level.
The problem arises when one spouse adheres to a religious faith different from that of the other as there can nothing more divisive than clashing spiritualities as one’s faith and the doctrines thereof affect sets the basis for moral and ethical choices, priorities, and even how children are brought up and when two people adhering to different faiths marry, there is bound to be doctrinal, philosophical, moral, ethical, and interest clashes which subjects the marriage to instability and likely even failure which is why scripture states, “Be not unequally yoked with the unbelieving.” (2 Cor. 6:14)
Yet far too often amongst professing Christians, scripture is disregarded as some naively and foolishly justify choosing an unbeliever to marry by thinking that by joining to them in marriage they might be able to persuade them to come to Christ but this almost never happens and the professing Christian is forced to choose between their devotion to Christ or the unbelieving spouse and tragically, they abandon their service to Christ to appease the unbelieving spouse because they never trusted God enough to provide them a suitable spouse for them to begin with; their reasoning for marrying the unbelieving spouse often being founded on superficialities and not on that which actually holds a marriage together: Love for one another, trustworthiness, spiritual, moral, and doctrinal compatibility, and like-minded priorities.
In the case of those professors of the faith who have unbelieving spouse, the Apostle Paul advises the saints that in such cases that if the unbelieving spouse wishes to remain married to them in spite of an unwavering devotion to Christ on the part of the believer, that they should remain together, but if the unbelieving spouse wishes to depart from the believing spouse, then let them depart as the believing spouse is not bound to the unbeliever in the same sense that they would be if both spouses followed Christ (1 Cor. 7:12-15) and therefore is free to marry again but this time, it must only be to a devoted follower of Christ.
https://jewsforjesus.org/publications/inherit/finding-spiritual-harmony-in-your-interfaith-relationship
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