I used to believe like everyone else and thought it was a bad idea to be in a relationship with someone not of the same faith. I believed this because that's what I was taught in church and by my Bible school professors. I entered seminary and took a class in Christian Ethics my first summer in seminary and we were writing papers and I was writing about divorce and remarriage and I used the passage 1 Corinthians 7 for the basis of this paper. And during the presentation I said that I have always heard pastors preach that believing and unbelieving spouse came into existence because the married when they were both unbelievers and one came to the Lord. The professor corrected that, and said that we are not given a context as to how this marriage came to be. It could be what most pastors preach, it could be that they were both Christian and one fell away and it could have been that the married just as they are one a believer and one not. Whatever the scenario it is clear that unbelieving spouse is sanctified through the believing spouse. I had trouble understanding what that meant until I looked at 1 Peter 3:1-2, "Wives, submit to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives."
I also learned in this class that there is no biblical basis for telling someone who they should and should not date because dating didn't exist then.
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