Neighbor Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 950 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,524 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Where is it recorded that Paul said; don't date unbelievers? Did Paul discuss "dating" at all? Are there Bible passages in the old testament or the new regarding "dating" procedures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,990 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,688 Content Per Day: 11.83 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted April 4, 2019 (edited) This can go for dating and marriage. I believe that can go for best friends as well. The Bible does not specifically mention dating. 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? Edited April 4, 2019 by missmuffet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 950 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,524 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Author Share Posted April 4, 2019 30 minutes ago, missmuffet said: This can go for dating and marriage. I believe that can go for best friends as well. The Bible does not specifically mention dating. 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? The same author had already written the following: "To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?" Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah_ Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 790 Content Per Day: 0.25 Reputation: 878 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/07/2015 Status: Offline Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Neighbor said: Where is it recorded that Paul said; don't date unbelievers? Did Paul discuss "dating" at all? Are there Bible passages in the old testament or the new regarding "dating" procedures? In Biblical times virtually all marriages were "arranged". 'Dating' is a relatively modern idea, so as far as I know there is nothing in the Bible about it. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who me Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,298 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 1,685 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/27/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted April 4, 2019 2 hours ago, Neighbor said: Where is it recorded that Paul said; don't date unbelievers? Did Paul discuss "dating" at all? Are there Bible passages in the old testament or the new regarding "dating" procedures? In biblical times marriages were arranged by the parents. There was no dating. Paul talked about not marrying a nonChristian. As today in the west marriage is no longer arranged by parents, but sorted through courting the rule is don't date non christians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativemechanic Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 414 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 1,273 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 518 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/22/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted April 4, 2019 (edited) It's pretty obvious it applies to dating. It's a union isn't it. With intention to marriage. People tend ti dance around it and get technical if they themselves want to date an unsaved person and are looking for a loophole. Edited April 4, 2019 by creativemechanic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted April 4, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,036 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,781 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted April 4, 2019 4 hours ago, missmuffet said: This can go for dating and marriage. I believe that can go for best friends as well. The Bible does not specifically mention dating. 2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness? I don't think this is talking about spouses any more than the friends you hang out with... fellowship tends to be as involved with friends as a spouse. I think it certainly would include dating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
com7fy8 Posted April 5, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 873 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 520 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/05/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted April 5, 2019 I would say that first of all we need to share with people who help us get more real with God and loving any and all people. And in case someone is not helping us to seek first God's kingdom, I would be careful how involved I get with that person. We want to reach people, yes, but with our good example which we share with other mature Christians as family. So, we should not get isolated with someone who is not a part of this. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortangel Posted April 5, 2019 Group: Senior Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 839 Content Per Day: 0.44 Reputation: 634 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/12/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted April 5, 2019 the apostle Paul did say that we are not to be unequaly yoked with nonbelievers in dateing & marriage I would probably not date someone that is not a believer but I would be friends with Christians & nonbelievers we cannot shun nonbelievers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted April 5, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 950 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,524 Content Per Day: 5.03 Reputation: 9,025 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 30 minutes ago, shortangel said: the apostle Paul did say that we are not to be unequaly yoked with nonbelievers in dateing & marriage I would probably not date someone that is not a believer but I would be friends with Christians & nonbelievers we cannot shun nonbelievers Was dating and marriage what Paul was writing about to the Corinthians in his writing we call 2 corinthians? Is that what this fuller excerpt from Paul's letter is expressing? ..."Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything. We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections. In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also. Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.” Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy. For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more. For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God. Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all. For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true. And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling. I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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