Equally Yoked
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Started by Punk'd
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Jan 2004
Your child reaches adulthood, becomes a successful whatever and meants the man/woman of their dreams. The person is kind, considerate, loving, overall perfect and their almost completely compatible, but he/she is of another faith, whether it be Islam, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, whatever.
Would you still give your child your blessing or would you raise heck over it? Fathers, say it was your daughter, would you still give her away at the wedding?
Everyone, would you prefer that they be happy with someone of another faith, or settle for someone that they loved less that was of your faith.
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marta wrote:Atl2Pretty4U wrote:Amen!! :lol: He speaks the truthInnocence wrote:Since my shocking comment to my roommate was the reason this forum was created I guess I should give my reason why I wouldn't support my child marrying a person of another faith. The bible says that you should not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. This is true in many aspects of our lives in not just in relationships. The reason for this is because you can not grow or achieve your full potential by being with someone who doesn't believe the same things as you. If you desire to go to college you wouldn't hang around people who would discourage you from it? If you want to stay abstinent, would you hang around people who fornicate? If you don't do ****, would you hang around drug dealers or crackheads? The answer is no because their lifestyles and mindset is not the same as yours. As far as religion goes, islam and christianity is not the same. They might believe in the same God, but religion is totally different. If you are all about serving Jesus and teaching christian values and they are all about Muhammed and teaching islamic values then there will be conflicts. This is the same for the other religions mentioned. This is not like a black marrying a white because that deals with the physical, but this issue deals with the spiritual which is who the person really is. If she or he chooses to marry outside their faith then that is up to them, but they won't have my blessing.
