Are you obligated to stay with someone who's religious beliefs have grown beyond those you shared when you met. Do you stay if everything you grew up knowing as normal is now a sin?
2007-02-21 12:05:33 · 8 answers · asked by BETTY E 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Not everything is a sin. It is possible to have a healthy relationship with someone even if you have different religious views. You should stay with someone you married because you MARRIED that person. The exception to the rule is generally accepted as domestic abuse, as far as religion is concerned. This is your life, you have to make your own choices. Go by yourself for a day or two to a hotel or spa, or a friend's house, and figure out whether you truly love the person you married. (If you're not yet married, decide whether that's a step you really want to take with this person.)
2007-02-21 12:13:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has your spouse gone "off" a bit? Is this person becoming "legalistic" in their religious beliefs? More confining than free? The Apostle Paul wrote in the Bible, about marriage, that If a non-believer and believer are married, and the non-believer wants to stay-they can. And, they are sanctified by being with the believer. However, if the non-believer wants out, do so, the believer is then not under any condemnation, is free. Do you have a pastor you can talk to about this? Does your spouse expect you to go to a new/different church with them? Where it is more legalistic? Then, please, go to a different church pastor to get the proper counsel. This is something that is between you and God. Is your spouse abusive? You don't need to stay in an abusive relationship. I wish you the best. Take care.
2007-02-21 21:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by SAK 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-21 20:34:10 · answer #3 · answered by D S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. For that is just what you commited to doing isnt it? What, you think that just because you change your mind, the other person has any less right to expect you to do as you promised them? Do you think that God was just joking when he said what he said? I wouldnt bet on it.
Why is it that so many of you people on here seem to concentrate upon any and all things you can use to get out of what you promised and commited to God, the other and yourself to doing, instead of working just as hard to correct whatever problems there are? And if it cant be corrected, oh well. You still opted in for life, did you not? Chances are you had signs of what might come about anyway. Not in all cases, but in most cases you saw the other for who and what they are and decided to give it a go anyway.
Please tell me just what part of the vows said anything about staying together until one changed their mind or decided they were not happy or so forth? When you find that scripture, please let me know. I would be curious to read it for the first time.
And contrary to what so many wish to believe anymore, God only gave us one acceptable reason to end a marriage and then be able to ever have another marriage. That is because our mate cheats upon us. Thats it. Oh, to those who say, we I can still have sex. Go read some more. God also tells us that sex outside or marriage is a sin as well.
Secret here for people. God isnt interested in what common accepted practices and ideas are. Your thoughts dont much count when it comes to God and his standards. They are his standards and he gets to set the rules. You dont have to like or agree with them, but you do have to pay the penalty for not obeying them. So follow all the politically correct norms and so forth. See where they lead. I dont think you will like where the end point is.
2007-02-21 20:33:01 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. JW 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if you have any type of religion and you believe in a higher power. Didn't you take vows when you got married? People now-a-days take getting married a little too lightly. You have to go in a marriage knowing that the other person is not perfect and over the years things will change.
2007-02-21 20:17:04 · answer #5 · answered by Briget B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't share the same beliefs, then, sharing a life together can be difficult. You can still stay in the marriage and respect eachothers beliefs.
2007-02-21 20:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Lovebug123 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, no one can answer this quesiton but you. Does maintaining your faith become difficult/impossible due to the prescence of your spouse, or (even worse perhaps) is maintaining your spouse's faith draining on you?
2007-02-21 20:14:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you don't stay.
2007-02-21 20:09:53 · answer #8 · answered by Pandora 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋