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1 | He believes in God not Jesus, is it ok? | 1 Cor 7:12 | youthguy | 161177 | ||
Hey seekng_truth- In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul is talking to the Corinthians about Christians and false teachers. He relates false teachers to servants of Satan (vs. 15). We can say that it talks about marriage to believers and unbelievers, but that wasn't its original intent. A reader cannot pick out portions of the Bible they like and discard portions they don't. 1 Corinthians 7:12-13 says that it's okay for non-believers to marry, but not divorce (except for certain circumstances). I think the term "unequally yoked" comes from Deuteronomy 22:10, where the command is not to yoke a donkey and an ox together to do work. We could easily apply this here, but that would be the wrong thing to do. As this CONCEPT (emphasis added)relates to marriage and relationships, I believe that it's healthier for a Christian to marry a Christian, but at the same time, I agree with Paul and am not completely against a Christian marrying an unbeliever. There will surely be some problems you'll have to overcome, but check out 1 Cor. 7 with an open mind and a good commentary. Greg |
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2 | He believes in God not Jesus, is it ok? | 1 Cor 7:12 | Hank | 161250 | ||
Youthguy (Greg): Taken from your post #161177: "1 Corinthians 7:12,13 says that it's okay for non-believers to marry." ..... I assume you mean that Paul is sanctioning a union between a believer and a non-believer. ..... But such is not what Paul, writing under inspiration of God, says at all. Here's the text of 1 Corinthians 7:12,13; "But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath a husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him." ....... This passage does not promote, endorse, encourage or sanction the marriage of a believer to an unbeliever. To exegete it thus would be in contradiction with 2 Cor. 6:14, "Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers" -- and God does not contradict himself in His word. ..... What the Apostle is saying in this 1 Cor. 7:12,13 passage is this: If a believer is already married to an unbeliever, then preservation of the marriage is preferable to divorce. This does not mean that God sanctions the marriage of a believer to an unbeliever (1 Cor. 6:14). Neither does it mean that God sanctions divorce in this instance. See Malachi 2:16. ...... Divorce was permitted, but never prescribed, by the law of Moses (Deut. 24:1; see also Matt. 19:3-9). ....... Last evening at prayer meeting services at my home church there appeared in our bulletin an anonymous prayer request of a wife and mother who was distraut because her husband was an unbeliever and would not attend worship services with his family. It was an occasion to reflect on 1 Corinthians 7 and the unwisdom of being unequally yoked together with an unbeliever. The longer I grow in the faith and the more I learn of God's word, the clearer the truth of the following passages become: "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them" (Ecclestiastes 12:1) and "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (Ecclestiastes 12:13). ..... As Jesus said to rebellious Saul of Tarsus: "It is hard for thee to kick against the goads" (Acts 9:5) so says He to us. Our Lord depicted Saul as a rebellious beast that fights against the prod of its master. When a Christian rebels against his Master and his Master's teaching, the Lord not only knows it but feels it as much as we (See Matthew 25:35-40). ...... Yes, 'tis true, the way of transgressors is hard (see Proverbs 13:15). --Hank | ||||||