Can a christian and a non christian have a successful happy marriage?

yes

I dont think so.

no

I'm fairly certain that one of my exes was, at the very least, related...closely.

to the devil i meant...sorry...sleep deprivation...lol

Yes, but one would bug the hell out of the other one to go to church.(LOL)

anything is possible

depends on how much they want it to work and how religious the other one is !!...they might convert each other..who knows...Lee don't ask me these kind of ???

Opposites Attract

that depends..on the people...

I'll bet it would get real interesting when they had babies.


...I'm just saying.

Hey love! It's interesting that you bring this up, because I am a fairly spiritual/religious person and attend services regularly. (Imagine that! I go to church AND I like sex!!) My deceased was Catholic, whereas I am Protestant Christian. He often went to church with me, as our kids were raised in my church, but I also played the organ at his church.

It caused more grief in his family than it did between us because we respected each others differences. Something that we must consider as we partner in our older age group....we have half a century of living without the other person that has influenced and shaped the person we have become. Can we love each other and give each other their space to worship (or not) as they please?

That being said, it makes for much nicer relations (of all kinds) if you can support your S.O. by attending church with them. As long as they don't start bugging you to JOIN, haha. Just think of it as the Elks club without the beer. And I like to think of it as another opportunity to bond.

well during a disagreement that may arise among the blissful couple the phrase "go to hell" will have a whole new meaning

It will never work out unless one is not a practicing person . Each religion sees itself as superior to the rest of the others .
You can not marry a cat to a mouse .

never say never for the impossible happens sometimes


I know of a man from Israel who is Jewish and is married to a Catholic German woman. They have three children.

They are celeberating their 40th year of marriage this year. They both go to their own churches often.

I am also sure there are Muslim Iraqi woman married to American Christian Men.

I think those who fell in love truly respect each other even if they have different faiths. They go through extremes to be together because the bond is so strong. They won't let anyone break them down.

It did not work for my parents. I think it is hard to respect someone who is against something you feel so strongly about.


"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? " St. Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:14-15

Personally, I want to know that my husband can be at my side, as I walk with God, and like to believe that a Christian couple can steady each other on that path.

My parents best friends from grade school,even to this day, got married after high school. He is Jewish, she was Lutheran and for the sake of the kids she was confirmed into the Jewish faith.

There's more. Their oldest daughter, whom I've know since we were born, was raised and confirmed Jewish. She Married a Christian, whose family was fully involved with their church.

They had three children, and they were taken to Synogog on Saturday and Church on Sunday. They had a choice as they approached the time for confirmation (christian) or (bat (female) or bar(male) mitzvah). One chose not to be confirmed in either, and no longer visits any religious site. Two chose to make their bar mitzvah, one of them was also confirmed but refused to be born again, instead chose to be Bar Mitzvah'd.

The story is basically the same for one of the other children. His wife was Christian and like her mother-in-law she chose to become Jewish. But both their kids are Christian, but one no longer affilates with religiuos social gatherings (church).

ALL of them are a family. Their beliefs are their own and are personal. The children for two generations have been given the best religious educations the generation before could give them. They were not forced, they were not preached to but there were many discussions, all surrounding the individual need, emotions and choices.

There is now a new generation in the family, and neither parent attends any social religious function, but they AND the family have already begun discussing the best 'teaching' options for this new life.

How wonderful it as to grow up in such close proximity to such a family. That's wrong, I too was part of that family, it was their Synagog that taught me what I know about Judaism. It was their family that accepted my parents, and their children.

If we could just be part of that one big family, what need would there be for these kinds of questions?