I was wondering if someone must convert into the Born Again Christian religion in order to marry someone who is Born Again.
2007-10-11 13:29:10 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here is what the Bible has to say about it:
If someone is considering marrying an unbeliever:
" Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
"Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you."
"I will be a Father to you,
and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
If someone is already married to an unbeliever:
"To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy."
"But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so. A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live in peace. How do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or, how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?"
"Nevertheless, each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches."
1 Corinthians 7:12-17 (NIV).
It is what God wishes. If one's faith is of paramount importance, then each person will want unity in their marriage and especially for any children that may come of it.
Remember, the first and most important commandment is to love God, then others. Matthew 22:36-40. If people trust in God, their faith will be rewarded. 1 Samuel 26:23; Hebrews 11:6. A marriage based upon faith in God will be strong indeed.
2007-10-11 13:50:36 · answer #1 · answered by Wayne C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you may do so because you never know if the person who claims to be "born again" is really born again. That person can be you, too! That's an easy one... but do you really hate your parents and everybody else, including your own life when you became a follower of Jesus? That's most important than being born again. You can't be born again unless you are prepared to hate your whole family. It may sound odd to you but that is the rule set by God the Son Jesus Christ. BTW, are you either hot or cold? You better be otherwise God the Son Jesus Christ will vomit you out of his Holy Stomach... There are a few more rules, but chew on the ones that I just gave you... You probably never stopped to wonder why "few, I tell you few" make to Heaven. It is not an eay road, you know?
2007-10-11 13:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by Opus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone claims that their religion is right. Jesus said that the way is straight and narrow that leads to heaven. So somebody is wrong. Why enter into a marriage with someone that believes differently than you do? You will never be able to completely be one (which is what God intended for marriage).
As for converting, do it before the marriage. If they don't get saved before, they won't after. You'll just live a miserable life and more than likely end up getting divorced.
2007-10-11 13:49:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the person is truly a born again Christian then they are going to do what the Bible says and they won't marry someone who is not a Christian.
FYI, you can't "convert" and become a born again Christian. God has to give you his Holy Spirit for you to become "born again".
2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
John 3:7 Do not marvel that I (Jesus) said to you, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
2007-10-11 13:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No religion really approves of interfaith marriage - and there's actually some rational basis for this. Interfaith marriages often become both conversion battles and battles over how to raise the kids, so the chances of success are somewhat less than those in which both partners agree. Of course, that assumes neither person grows away from their childhood beliefs....
2007-10-11 13:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Usually a devout Christian will refuse to marry outside their religion. Less devout or non-practicing Christians (people who believe in the Christian God but don't go to church) usually don't have a problem with it though. My husband is a non-practicing Christian and I'm a Witch, and we have no problems with it.
2007-10-11 14:36:56 · answer #6 · answered by Bookworm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well People do it all the time and then either leave their faith or suffer in a mediocre marriage for life..
The will of God is that we marry other believers
2007-10-11 13:33:28 · answer #7 · answered by † PRAY † 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No "major" religion promotes inter-faith marriage.
But I think it could work, people just need to learn to compromise. It's the easiest thing in the world, people just make it hard.
2007-10-11 13:43:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's not allowed but the lukewarm do it anyway. They think they know better than God what is best for themselves.
2Cr 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2007-10-11 13:32:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
The bible speaks against it.
2007-10-11 14:01:55 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋