Recent content by treeberry

Phew! Now that the firestorm has dampened I can carefully peek in without getting my hair singed... Cresco, I agree with what you had said so do not take my response as argumentative. I am simply analyzing this from a logical debate view. Many of these men are insistent that they can lead the...

What does all of this have to do with marrying outside one's faith?

Prentis, I'm also married so I understand :) Selene, you keep talking about all these emotional things like love but in reality love can only take you so far in a marriage...note that in scripture it is a husband who is commanded to love his wife and wives are commanded to submit and obey to...

I agree with Prentis and Buzz here, since what they have said is plainly backed by scriptural evidence and even early Christian traditional can support this. I find it a hard stretch to suggest that non-Christians and Christians should marry when nowhere in the Bible does it say it is...

Okay Buzz, here are the reason why MEN have told me that they'd be interested in a non-believer: 1. He was attracted to her, physically. 2. He didn't meet anyone else who was a Christian who was like her. 3. They got along well, discussed faith issues, and decided that it wouldn't be a big...

Then Selene must be mistaken too, since she was the one who introduced that we aren't supposed to be afraid of marrying non-Christians. Where is the scriptural proof that we aren't supposed to be afraid to marry non-Christians?

Isn't that an important criteria that a man should consider when looking for a wife? I've met a lot of christian women who have believed everything that feminism teaches, and would make horrible wives. Yet I have also met women from non-Christian faiths who believed in God and in Jesus but...

A couple of questions then: If we say that it is God who chooses our spouses for us, how do we use discernment in making the proper choices? How does someone come to the conclusion that God's leading them to make a choice to marry a non-Christian? I find that argument as a way to absolve...

Where in the Bible does it tell us to not be afraid to marry people who do not have the same faith as we do? Does this mean Christians can marry people of pagan religions? Where does it also say that a Christian wife does not submit to the religion of an unbelieving husband, when it says to...

You don't think it's possible for a woman who is WILLING to defer to a man can eventually follow her husband's faith? That seems odd to me. Finding a woman in these days with the characteristics of willing to follow leadership and deference is rare, and I would think that is valued just as...

I'm new here, and I'm kind of excited to be part of an online Christian community again! I'd also like to ask you all what your thoughts about this topic are, as it can cause some controversy even with devout Christians. A while ago, a few friends and I were having an argument or heated...