What are your views on interfaith relationships or marriages?

Could you do it?

Note: Interfaith marriages are couples with different religions and
cultural beliefs.

My opinion is that any marriage can work. Hitler and Mother Theresa
would make a wonderful couple, but they would both have to work their
butts off just to get along. All relationships take work, marriage
especially. So choosing a partner with different goals, beliefs,
religion, background, language, etc will force both partners to work
harder than they would have to otherwise. I think the advice the Bible
gives against marrying non-believers can also be applied to other
demographics. It's not an arbitary or elitist way to limit your choice
of spouse, it's good advice for creating a marriage that will last.

Spider "My opinion is that any marriage can work. Hitler and Mother
Theresa would make a wonderful couple, but they would both have to work
their butts off just to get along"


So funny. To be honest, personally if someone wasn't a believer I
wouldn't go there with them. I would be their best friend but nothing
beyond that. There are reasons for that. I'll tell you later

I AGREE WITH YOU BORED BELIEVERS ARE SUPPOSE TO MARRY EACH OTHER

I'm not surprised that we all agree... if anyone else agrees, that's
the question.

spider was the mother theresa and hitler statement sarcastic? I thought
you were saying people regardless of faith or beliefs can work it out.

Some people can work it out..good for them

I can't..

awesome. we all are on the same page

Bored,

My point is that any relationship will work, but it would take
incredible (maybe not even humanly possible) amounts of work. That's
why I will live my life by the rule taught in the Bible "do not be
unevenly yoked...". Who wants a relationship that you have to work 24
hours a day to keep together?

Thanks BC for asking and Spider for answering... I was trying to
reconcile my various-possible-interpretations of Spider's post.

And I agree about any relationship possibly working, but some
relationships taking an unreasonable amount of work.

yeh spider like massage said there are some relationshp that take
unreasonable work

Flowers for you both

Sorry, I'm not being clear.

I don't believe Christians should marry non-Christians, the relationship
would be too much work. I don't believe all Christians should
inter-marry. Armenists should not marry Calvinists, because they will
never agree.

The question is "Is the juice worth the squeeze?" Are you going to get
enough out of the relationship to make it worth the effort? I think, to
do that, you need to marry someone with very similar beliefs and
possibly background to your own.

Spider, my understanding of your 3rd post is consistent with my
understanding of your 4th.

The question I'm left with is... do you think there might be SOME
people, here and there, for whom crossing the "religious belief" line
might be their best course of action for "overall compatibility" ? Not
anyone here! But for someone else...

massagetrade,

No, I don't. I would like to say "Non-believers should marry believers,
that way they will be saved.", but it would be at least as likely that
the believer would lose faith. I know that believers who are married to
non-believers are told to stay in the marriage and show their partner
the love of Jesus. But we are told explicitly to avoid marriage with
non-believers.

good post

hi massage..random post

I've dated a non-christian... and like spider says, it takes an INSANELY
large amount of work!!! I mean... why confuse the kids???

"Why confuse the kids!!"

hilarious.

But there are so many differences, I rather just stay friends. It's a
very complex thing. I could type a list explaining why I prefer not to

Being friends is one thing, you can respectfully disagree and go about
your business... MARRIAGE??? Where you gonna go when you disagree? To
the living room??? And wives are supposed to be submissive to their
husband... what if he believes he should have more than one wife??? You
think I'd be cool with that??? Uh, nope! And I'm not sleeping on the
couch either!!!!

Become and atheist and save urself the aggrivation.

Regards

TLW