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Inter religious Courting; Should we restrain ourselves to our own?
Topic Started: 23 Apr 2009, 10:56 PM (4,436 Views)
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well i still reckon look at the house of Juda-read it very carefully......

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I know, I wouldn't do it. I'm saying knock yourself out, but don't come crying to me...
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Sorry for butting in way after the discussion is finished, Ezekiel. I just wanted to say that sometimes you have to decide whether you want to follow your heart or if you want follow one of many interpretations of a few verses that could sorta look like they tell you not to.

I mean, if God let's you fall in love with a girl... and I mean real love, not just desire ...only to forbid you from being with the one you love. - Well that doesn't really sound like something an all powerful and all loving being would do now does it?
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I'm NOT talking about the yoke of 2 cows or something.
I'm asking if religions ALLOW this sort of thing.
Lemme answer you NO it is NOT spiritually legal becaue when you marry you become ONE therefore YOLKING yourself with an UNBELIEVER!!! got it? :thumbs:
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My view: date whomever you want
marry whomever you want.

I look at all the people with the exact same religious view who break up all the time and think to myself: religion should not matter any more than how much money your intended's family has. If you believe they're the person you should marry and you're willing to make that commitment and the other person feels the same way, then by God (and there's nothing vain about me taking the Lord's name here) then neither hell nor high water should get keep you apart.

I'm not a literal sort of guy, but the book says "God is Love" and Jesus commanded "Love" so I'm going to go with that. Don't let Paul's bigotry get in the way of your happiness
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Religion shouldn't matter.
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Yes...I get jokes. Hehe.
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i think its a very good idea to talk about all the practical things as much as possible.........just to suss it out.....you know whats said about the many smALL foxes...

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Well Ezk, if you want to know if it's spiritually "legal"...


I could go out and sleep with lots of men and woman right now, and God wouldn't send the spirit police out to get me. Because, well God isn't like that. He has is laws, but it's up to us to follow them. And somethings aren't as well defined as others in the bible.

So, really, I don't know. I personally believe it's not a good thing to do, because it complicates a lot of things, like Cameron said. (see Cameron's post)


I'm going to get off my soapbox now.
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Hey, was reading this forum and I thought that I could share some light on what I think of this topic, which is uite frankly an important topic for many many people! Put simply I dont think that it works. God for me is the focus and love of my life, I spend alot of time with Him, and as a result I feel it wouldnt be FAIR to go out with someone who didnt share my love of Him, particularly someone that I also cared about, it would just be weird to be in a relationship with someone who didnt understand why I did certain things such as prayer and abstinance... Likewise if you spend alot of time with someone else...someone great! It would definatly get on your girlfriends nerves, lets face it there is no person on earth as good and amazing as God. So I would say that it is impossible to have inter religious relationships. But if you do fall for someone of a different faith, pray, ask God for wisdom and advice and He WILL help you. :D
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:welcome: Mr JJ

i am ARAZEC the forums worst speller so i hope you can understand me :D
- its nice to hear your view....

so what do you mean when you say "spend a lot of time with God" and its not fair to the other person-i mean christian or not- do you think you can spend your "time" simultaniously? i am just not getting that point....

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Hi Mr_JJ :)
I kinda both agree and disagree with you at the same time. :D
On one side, there are many religions and versions of religions whose followers are quite compatible with members of other or no religions. Not only Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism, but also many types of Judaism, Christianity and Islam can be compatible with others.
But I do agree with you that a religious person who is so strongly involved with his religions that it becomes "a third party" in the relationship, might run into problems if the other person in that relationship is not prepared to make it a menage a trois. So in that respect I completely agree with you.
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Hey Arazec, my spelling and punctuation is sometimes dubious to! Anyway what I am getting at is, as a believer I spend time developing my relationship with God. Personally I do that by making time in the morning (I eat my breakfast and drinking tea before I head to university whilst reading the Bible and then spend a few minutes praying over what I have read and thanking God for what he has planned in my day etc) I also make time in the evenings before bed so to give my first and last minutes with God, I feel it just helps me get spirit filled before I set out for the day and then I can think about what I have achieved in the day. If you have never tried it do it! :D I think If I had a girlfriend who wasnt a christian, she would find my ways really quite odd, and probably feel really ostracised by it all (again my spelling)! If she was of another faith equally I would probably wonder why she did particularly different things! (hope I come across alittle clearer) What do you think?

Hey Concolour, granted that people with abrahaic faiths such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam all worship one and the same God but our beliefs as christians are different to other faiths, which could cause real problems down the love road such as which faith would your children belong to if both people were ardently religious? Or even deeper questions that have been raised in other forums such are people of other faiths saved even though they dont know Jesus...a different topic, but it would be hard to go out with someone and love them when the question looms of salvation for unbelievers (another rather difficult question!).
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Woah, cheesebugs in the debate section and not out stirring up trouble!
I believe its okay, maybe Christians ca even drive the other person inn the right direction. As for me, I'm only allowed to date/marry/look at christians. Cant even marry a Catholic. My moms a bit strict on that subject.
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I actually think your mother is right. If you want to keep a certain religion, it is best to avoid contact with people who do not share it as much as possible. Knowledge is detrimental to faith, and being so close to someone who has a different viewpoint will inevitably give you more knowledge about other views than the one you started with, which increases the chances of your own viewpoint changing.

The conversion-game is likewise a dangerous game to play, because you are often met with critical questions about your faith and you also have to take a closer look at your faith in order to construct arguments to convince your discussion-partner. One of the most prominent leaders of a large humanist-association in Norway used to be a youth-preacher before going on a hiking trip in the mountains with a friend of his (who was not a Christian). The preacher spent most of his time during this trip trying to convert his friend. He was successful, his friend believed him, but he lost his own faith in the process.
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