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My first inclination is to say, "no."
Notice some verses:
2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what
communion hath light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good
manners.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Notice what God said to Israel as they entered the
Promised Land:
Deuteronomy 7:1-3
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt
smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with
them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt
not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
It is bad enough to marry one not heavily engaged in worldly religion
without having to consider one who feels strongly about their faith.
The conflicts will be many. Bitterness and resentment could easily
develop. Of course, every case will be unique. I have seen
cases where a firstfruits marries someone, who, it turns out, was
immediately called to the faith. I would think the firstfruit
would sense this and/or had specific communications to know how the
intended spouse feels about your religion.
Since this question is about dating, the scriptures in 1 Corinthians 7
about the unbelieving mate being pleased to live with his or her
firstfruit spouse do not apply as this firstfruit was married at the
time of his or her calling to the faith.
Remember what happened to Solomon when he married outside the faith.
1 Kings 11:4
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away
his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD
his God, as was the heart of David his father.
The whole idea of marrying a person is to become one flesh; the deepest
kind of relationship. This bonding is at the mental, emotional,
physical and spiritual levels. Marrying or even dating one strong
in another faith goes counter to this concept.
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