Is it prohibited to marry a Non-Christian?
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What fellowship does light have with darkness.
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Be ye not unequally yoked comes to mind,as verses can be applied to situations in our lives. Im trying to think if there are verses about it…
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I think Samson’s experience might be instructive
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2 Corinthians 6:14 – 7:1
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It’s not strictly prohibited but why would you want to marry someone who doesn’t share your beliefs. It doesn’t make sense
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I just taught this in my online school this morning. I wonder how the non-Christian students felt when I said, “You Christian girls must be careful even when the non-believers boys promise they will become Christian when they married you”?
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Not prohibited, but also not recommended. There will be strife and a dampening of faith.
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strongly suggested that you don’t.
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The answer is very clear in the Bible. I don’t know why people need to discuss.
Mature Christians will never ask that question unless you want to let Satan tempting you like he did to Adam and Eve!! -
Marriage is the divinely ordained covenant between one man and one woman, and is intended to be for life. (Genesis 2:24) This is recognized by the majority of churches.
The unity between a man and a woman in marriage is an expression of the spiritual relationship that God desires His creation to realize with Him. The first marriage occurred nearly 6,000 years ago in the Garden of Eden, in the area of the world that we now know as the Middle East. The first couple was Adam and Eve, and the Lord Jesus specified that it was male and female that God joined together in marriage for life. (Matthew 19:4-6) See also: Christian marriage
Marriage has been practiced as such in most cultures across geography and time. Marriage is a lifelong commitment, and typically this involves a public ceremony (a wedding) in which vows are exchanged by the parties and before God. Approximately half of all traditional marriages in America end in divorce, many due to Facebook and other liberal activities.
Dinesh D’Souza wrote:
Marriage requires a) two people who are b) of legal age and c) not closely related to each other who are d) one male and one female. Note that this definition excludes people who want to marry children, or guys who want to marry their sisters, or Muslims who want to take four wives, or that strange guy who wants to marry his dog.
Bill Bennett wrote:
Based as it is on the principle of complementarity, marriage is also about a great deal more than love. That “great deal” encompasses, above all, procreation. The timeless function of marriage is childbearing and child-rearing, and the best arrangement ever developed to that end is the marital union between one man and one woman …
What Bennett’s words ultimately imply is that, in terms of the value of marriage to anything which stands outside of it, marriage is most principally for the production of additional marriages, and, thus, is a progressive type of scale-invariance such as the Mandelbrot fractal.
So, marriage is the most glorious kind of relation between human individuals because it alone is what most essentially defines humanity. The good of humanity is defined as an integration of all naturally enduring mutual benefits between all free individuals. But, all those benefits are created-and-sustained by the existence of marriage as that one relation for the preservation of which is invoked the most special legal recognition, because…
…Marriage not only historically is the very first form of human society, it is logically the most beautiful, perfect, simple, and potentially productive human institution possible.
For Christians, marriage has traditionally been seen as “a union that takes its distinctive character from being founded, unlike other friendships, on bodily unity of the kind that sometimes generates new life.” As such, marriage is the one and only form of companionship from which all other forms spring: it is the single irreducible core of society.
1724 — blacks, with permission of their slave owner, given the right to marry (formerly, under British law, only whites could legally marry)
1769 — women no longer considered property of their husbands
1899 — polygamy outlawed in the US
1967 — interracial marriage legalized in all states
1981 — rise of community property laws as men no longer seen as the sole owner of all marital assets
1 Corinthians 7:1-16:
Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. But this I say by way of concession, not of command. Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace. For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
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It is so much more intimate when you share your faith with your husband/wife. It has made us stronger and more deep in love. I couldn’t imagine the bond if he wasn’t a believer.
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My mother was Christian and my father was Hindu .
I was born in semi-christian family ,now my father is a pastor , I am a pastor doing my PhD .
It has other aspect also negative eg: Solomon and David build temples for their ( wives) faiths. -
2 Cor 6:14 seems clear to me.
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
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It’s not prohibited but how can you be one with someone who doesn’t believe what you do? You can share your body with that person and time but what about the core of your soul and heart which should as a Christian be Christ ? Why deprive yourself ? We were meant to become one with our spouse
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It’s not recommended, but not a sin.
Paul gives advice for believers married to unbelievers, so it definitely happens.
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Not recommended.
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a non-Christian may marry a non-Christian but a Christian may NOT marry a non-Christian !
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It’s commanded against…and anyone truly desiring to please the Lord is not going to seek marriage to an infidel
Converting after marriage to an infidel is entirely different
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Why don’t you read your bible like you ought to? Hmm?
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Gentle responses folks – gently.
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It’s a tuff road
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You can’t be unequally yoked
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The Bible WARNS us to NOT be unequally yoked. And for very good reason.. MOST times then not people will get into unequally yoked relationships bc they FEEL they can win that person to Christ..HOWEVER..a lot of times…people are mistaken. Sometimes the person (unbeliever) u are with may not show u TRUE colors until that knot is tied…and THEN…now what?! U see in ugly side..u start to get abused..either physically or mentally or verbally…Is that even something u wanna even put yourself through?! EVEN IN POSSIBILITY…as for me GOD says DO NOT for very good reasons…I would heed to the DO NOTS..
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To the OP. Permissible? Sure. Recommended? No. Look up unequally yoked.
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Let me ask you, would you want to marry someone that doesn’t share in your core values, sense of meaning, and worship of the one true God? What if that person doesn’t recognize the concept of sin, doesn’t have the same definitions for wrong or evil that you do from a biblical perspective and therefore sees no need for a Savior in Jesus Christ? What will happen when that person wants to allow things in the home or actively teach things that go against your moral compass and conscience as a Christian, all because they are not a Christian and don’t share your concerns? Are you starting to see my point?
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I did and it back fired stupendously.
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Its a sin
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Do not be yoked with the unbeliever
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I married an unbeliever and as much as we love each other there’s tons of strife and mockery because of my walk, but this relationship I’m already in has taught me what my rebellion looks like to God yet He hasn’t divorced me!
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If a daughter of God marries a son of the evil one she becomes a daughter in law to satan,if a son of God marries a daughter of satan he becomes a son in law to the devil..That union is a dishonor to Christ In every case is the poor believer who suffers..
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Without reservation, everyone that I know who married a non-believer in hopes of “converting” them has wound up regretting it.
Christian, though everything is permissible to you, not everything is profitable.
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Don’t be unequally yoked.
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I married an unbeliever. Nothing is as unattractive as an unbeliever to me now as I am full grown. Sorry about that.
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Why would a child of God want to marry a child of Satan? The supernatural clash in the spiritual backdrop will be overwhelming. Those two Kingdoms are at war! Heed the scriptural warning!
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I think one thing that gets missed about this topic is the fact that the apostle Paul does not go into detail about whom one should marry. He doesn’t say not to marry someone from another class. He doesn’t say you can’t marry someone who is taller or shorter than you. He does not say (thank God) You cannot marry someone better looking than yourself. Or someone from a different race or color. The apostle Paul only says this: Mary only in the Lord (1Cor. 7:39). Simply put marry a follower of Christ. A co-heir. Marry someone who is going to walk along with you in the pursuit of Christ. God did not put heavy restrictions on us but gave us tremendous freedom. Marry someone who loves God and the things of God. That’s it! To me that’s an amazing truth and encouragement.
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Do not be unequally yoked sounds like a recommendation.
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yes
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Can water be mix with oil ..
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Ok, so I actually agree that it’s smart to marry someone who is at least on a similar level as you are. BUT sometimes God does have the plan of bringing your spouse to Christ through you. My husband has been a Christian most of his life and I was only saved 4 years ago. Looking back on how God has moved our “chess board” is absolutely amazing to me.
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No but I don’t recommend it
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All these people here…all of us were at one point far from God…equally as an unbeliever…but the amount of judgement here…if a non believer read some of these posts they would never want to be saved…
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Yea. If you have already married God will look to it but if you want to marry a non believer you are asking for trouble.
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2 Corinthians 6:14 says we should not “be unequally yoked with nonbelievers” even if it does not mention marriage directly, it does tell us that we should not be yoked with any unbelievers in any kind of relationships. Work relationships, friendships, and I would think most of all marriage. My reasoning for this is; marriage to our God is a holy event where a brother and sister join together to further the Kingdom of God. To have children and to teach them the way to go. I do not see in the Bible where God weds himself with his enemies but what I do see is where God destroys His enemies. This is not to say this will happen to you but if you choose to marry an unbeliever you will bring untold suffering into your life. Just as the Jews who aligned themselves with Ba’al. Do not believe for one second that by marrying an unbeliever that you can save this person. By believing this you will be acting as God, taking away His authority. Again I am not saying your are thinking about this, I am writing this as a warning.
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yeah.. and what ???
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No, not prohibited and not encouraged. If you marry them you bless them because of your beliefs. However, it will be a philosophical battlefield in that house. Even more so when you have kids. Also, if she wants to leave you because of your beliefs you’re to let her go. It just ends up being a mess
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Prohibited nope. Do not see a prohibition. Wise? No as we are told the marriage would be unequally yoked.
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How about if I already had a long time non Christian girlfriend when I became a Christian?
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Not prohibited but also not wise. A believer will continue to grow and develop in holiness and in His love for God, a nonbeliever will not. When the blush of love is gone and the tough days start, having a shared faith in God as the core of your marriage, may give you the strength to see it through. Without that core, your chances are greatly diminished. 😉
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