What is the Bible talking about here.."Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"
2007-11-23 08:19:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Or here in these verses...
Luke 12:46
The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
Luke 12:45-47 (in Context) Luke 12 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 15:31
Pray that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,
Romans 15:30-32 (in Context) Romans 15 (Whole Chapter)
1 Corinthians 6:6
But instead, one brother goes to law against another—and this in front of unbelievers!
1 Corinthians 6:5-7 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 6 (Whole Chapter)
1 Corinthians 7:15
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.
2007-11-23 08:21:00 · update #1
"The fool has said in his heart there is no God." If there are no atheists, this passage is useless and nonsensical.
2007-11-23 08:30:25 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
We need to understand the social, political, and cultural trend of Corinth, the city in Greece to understand this phrase. The usual style of Paul is missing here(see your quotes from Corinth 1). The history is, Paul visited Corinth first time, stayed there for 18 months, and left. When he returned after some years, during his trip to Macedona, he became very angry with Corinthians, and was heavily burdened. See 2 Cor. 2:1. Hence the Cor 10 - 13 chapters are called the 'letter of tears'. The reasons are not mentioned in the Bible. What has happened is a wild guess from many scholars.
Corinth was a very very rich city in those days. Horace said "Not everybody can visit Corinth" - portraying the cost of living and riches that flooded the city. Hence the morale of the citizens too diminished. The guess is, the Christians who were very harmonious with their non-christians (worshipers of greek gods) got influenced by their practices (we know the human sacrifice, feasts, orgies were part of the Greek Gods' worships). Hence the Christians might have included some of these practices also in worshiping Christ, and started distancing from the Biblical preachings.
So Paul, who stressed many times about being harmonios with unbelievers in his first visit, stressed on keeping away from the unbelievers in his second visit.
The lesson is a very important one to every individual in the society. It is about selecting the relationship. And 'Your strength should not become a weakness of yours'.
Many persons contemplate that God does not want Christians to marry non-Christians through this phrase. That is foolish. God wants us to mix up with all his sons and daughters. My friend's friend is a sex-addict, but a very good guy. He helps everybody; a very jovial and funny personality. Everybody enjoyed his company. He shared his room with some new friends, who were morally exemplary persons. Few months later all his room mates started indulging in prostitution and justified that there is nothing wrong in it, They didnt want me criticising my sex-addict friend either. They became best friends, and now they are like one soul. But they spend almost all their earnings in women. The great virtues - Friendship and affection became their weaknesses. Now all the guys have lost their peace in family life, and families are torn apart.
2007-11-23 09:19:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't get where this whole nonsense about "atheists not existing" came from. It's totally asinine.
An atheist is "one who lacks a belief in a deity or deities." Certainly there are such people who would fit that description, myself included. So, atheists exist.
Could someone explain how these people got to their conclusion that there are no atheists, because I don't get it. If atheists "don't exist" and I don't believe in God, then what the hell would I be called?
2007-11-23 08:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by danhyanh 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unbelievers here refer to people who do not believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God. The Bible has another word for people who say in their heart "there is no God."
2007-11-23 08:27:35 · answer #4 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't prove the existence of God, but I can prove the existence of Atheists. They do exist, even the Bible says so.
2007-11-23 08:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never said that atheists did not exist.
2007-11-23 08:48:05 · answer #6 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C.L. has got a new hypothesis out of her psychosis.
2007-11-23 08:26:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well that just proves the Bible isn't science.
2007-11-23 08:22:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
They were referring to those who don't believe specifically that Jesus died for their sins. That's far different from the basic knowledge that there is some higher power. :)
Keep trying! That was good!
2007-11-23 08:23:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 12⤋