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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2009 21:41:12 GMT -5
What are they (virtues)? This is a thread for the long-married as well as unmarrieds. A young person says: "my choices were really limited at meetings, conventions, and young people's get-togethers. Meeting potential mates in those venues guaranteed that you would find someone who was committed to a schedule of worship from 10-11am on Sunday, 7:30-8:30pm on Wednesday, one whole day for special meetings, and 3-4 days per year at convention. It meant that you would share a bunch of social and family connections. Unfortunately, it did not filter for criteria based on moral or religious convictions. Too many people assume that being "professing" or coming from a "professing" family is an indicator of similar values."Good points. But are there other benefits in both partners sharing the same (some might say weird) 'professing' background? An obvious answer "be not unequally yoked" would not wash with many young 'professing' people these days because most I know are only weakly exclusivist or not at all
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Post by smithson on Feb 6, 2010 0:43:33 GMT -5
Whether "professing"or not I would want a partner who was respectful of our Creator, capable of loving, seeing the good in self and others: a big heart for humanity in general, tolerant and understanding of own faults as well as those of others: able to recognise own imperfections without dwelling on them and to forgive the same in others; able to laugh at self and life in general, one whose trust in God was sincerely committed, even when shaken: humble enough to learn life's lessons and optimistic in all eventualities. One who admits that we all understand very little really in the greater scheme of things, Superperson 2010!
Possessions, social standing, looks - immaterial,
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Post by shushy on Feb 12, 2010 14:28:53 GMT -5
It is untrue to suggest that 2 x professing partners are always equally yoked. Even in other local churches marriages are not necessarily equally yoked.
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Post by ronhall on Feb 12, 2010 15:40:49 GMT -5
If my reading is correct, I believe it says to "be not UN-equally yoked with strangers".
Whoops! Only close. 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?"
So how would a person determine whether he was equally or unequally yoked together with unbelievers?
And what might be the significance of being unequally yoked vs equally yoked?
Though I have heard workers preach on this, I have never felt I fully understood this passage.
For one thing, light dispels darkness -- so -- that would indicate that there would be no communion of light with darkness. It would also indicate that there would always be an unequal yoking and that light would have the greater power.
So maybe someone can shed some light on this and dispel my darkness on the subject!
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Post by snow on Feb 12, 2010 17:34:59 GMT -5
If my reading is correct, I believe it says to "be not UN-equally yoked with strangers". Whoops! Only close. 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?" So how would a person determine whether he was equally or unequally yoked together with unbelievers? And what might be the significance of being unequally yoked vs equally yoked? Though I have heard workers preach on this, I have never felt I fully understood this passage. For one thing, light dispels darkness -- so -- that would indicate that there would be no communion of light with darkness. It would also indicate that there would always be an unequal yoking and that light would have the greater power. So maybe someone can shed some light on this and dispel my darkness on the subject! Well first of all to compare believers and non believers as light and dark is truly an arrogant statement imo. And I would think the unbeliever probably feels the believer is the unbeliever too so also rather redundant. Every one seems to think their religion is the right one or right belief. However, there is likely wisdom is that verse too. I personally could not be married to a religious person. It would drive me nuts hearing the things they believed all the time. My sister is someone I can't be around too long without really wanting to get away. She is constantly telling everyone to pray for her and god bless and I'll pray for you and on and on. I don't do well around that kind of thing. I feel like saying, Leave the poor guy alone! You've got him running 24/7 with all your requests... soo..... maybe it's good for non believers to not marry believers.
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Post by eyedeetentee on Mar 16, 2010 1:11:10 GMT -5
Sounds like a good plan, snow.
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