Featured Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: where do you draw the line?

Any relationship or agreement that might violate my Christian beliefs or convictions/standards.

And would also add that even Christians be be unequally yoked, for what if the Wife wants to be a conservative Baptist, and the Husband wants to name it and claim it all of the time?

 

"...ANY relationship... that MIGHT..."
That would be quite restrictive...
I don't think that's what Paul had in mind.

Follow that thought through...
You'd need to find a spouse that agreed with everything the partner believed.
Is that even possible?

Rob

 

It is obvious that this is a complex area of scripture. The churches I have been associated with generally held to the idea of the marriage relationship between believers and non-believers. Extending it to business partners, military service and such really complicates the issue. I have never applied this scripture to worldly endeavors.

I have and do apply it beyond just the spiritual relationship between couples. I believe marriages between couples with great divergences in education or wealth can add sever pressure to the relationship.

My grandson, who works as a part-time youth minister and goes to college, just got engaged to a young lady who comes from a very wealthy family. He incurred a sizable debt to purchase her ring.

 

I don’t go to strip joints with them... not anymore. Also, I haven’t had a beer in months.

 

It's an individual decision (or decisions) based upon our faith ...whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

 

DUH, Yes - because I have faith grounded in the word of God.

 

I don't even TALK with unbelievers ... to avoid even the appearance of being unequally yolked.
I just throw a John 3:16 tract at them and run away!

Spoiler

That was humor, in case it wasn't obvious.

 

Good for you.

 

To be forthright Dave there was a time in my life when I did become unequally yoked in a business agreement and I lived to regret it.

There are situations which are left up to one's own discernment/discretion.

e.g. I bought my house from an unbeliever over a period of several weeks.
True there were buffers of the bank, the VA and the Real Estate agent.

Any wage earner or contractor has decisions to make also.
Though I am not a teetotaler I wouldn't take a software engineering contract with my States Liquor Board but felt no compulsion working for the Department of Licensing for Commercial Driver's licenses.

many companies and government enterprises have business tentacles reaching into areas of liquor, gambling, health industries involved in abortion, euthanasia.

So for me its according to faith ...whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

 

yes, but there would still be many problems in that type of a marriage related to doctrines of the faith!

 

Wouldn't this be an area like where Romans 14:5 states, "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind"? This is an area where you're talking about how far one can go with their conscious approving or disapproving. For the reason that everyone is at a different level of spiritual growth or what they feel God has impressed in their hearts I'm sure you'd get all sorts of variations as to what's right. As I said perhaps what's best is to let people's conscious be their guide.