Interfaith Marriage

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You're getting really good at sharing your beliefs in a non-offensive manner.

Nice underhanded compliment there

Not fair! I think honeyblonde was being gracious and acknowleding past postings and how glad she is she can enjoy this discussion.

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You're getting really good at sharing your beliefs in a non-offensive manner.

Nice underhanded compliment there

nice personal title

I'm all about truth in advertising

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LOL I love that avatar, doodle! That looks like me some mornings

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sz, very well written and informative. You're getting really good at sharing your beliefs in a non-offensive manner. Thank you. Your analysis makes a lot of sense.

Thank you, but I've never been the first to be offensive.

Sorry if that came across wrong. When you first joined the board I found what you wrote rather condescending, although I'm sure it wasn't intended that way. I have found that either I'm used to you now or your tone is softer because I can now read what you write without feeling like I'm reading someone who thinks they know everything (not that you don't know a lot because you definitely do). Maybe it's all in my head, who knows!

I didn't mean to start any wars, I really did enjoy reading the information you posted.

Doodle, that picture is just wrong!

[ya falaha! 0]

Not as wrong as this one....

[Joel Halfwassen 0]

I just read the article. It isn't only Muslims who hold this view. Almost all religious leaders of all faiths proclaim something similar about this religion. I know my wife's family is VERY concerned about our marriage because I am not Russian Othodox. They keep saying that they don't want their grandchildren raised as heathens or pagans.

Joel

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Not as wrong as this one....

How many times do I have to tell people to stop hijacking my thread with weed-smoking babies!?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

sz, very well written and informative. You're getting really good at sharing your beliefs in a non-offensive manner. Thank you. Your analysis makes a lot of sense.

Thank you, but I've never been the first to be offensive.

Sorry if that came across wrong. When you first joined the board I found what you wrote rather condescending, although I'm sure it wasn't intended that way. I have found that either I'm used to you now or your tone is softer because I can now read what you write without feeling like I'm reading someone who thinks they know everything (not that you don't know a lot because you definitely do). Maybe it's all in my head, who knows!

I didn't mean to start any wars, I really did enjoy reading the information you posted.

Doodle, that picture is just wrong!

Thank you, sis. Insha'allah, we can continue without contention. I'm cool. B)

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I just hijacked your smoking baby pictures to my memory stick. My son will love those!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I just read the article. It isn't only Muslims who hold this view. Almost all religious leaders of all faiths proclaim something similar about this religion. I know my wife's family is VERY concerned about our marriage because I am not Russian Othodox. They keep saying that they don't want their grandchildren raised as heathens or pagans.

Joel

The difference is that while all religions believe their tenets to be those shared by God, out of all the Abrahamic faiths, Islam is the onlyone that expressly allows interfaith marriage without conversion.

One thing that many Muslims are not aware of is that the Quran tells us that Allah does not intend for everyone to believe the same or follow the same path:

To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what God hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way. If God had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to God; it is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute [5:48]

Those who believe (in the Qur'an), those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians and the Christians,- any who believe in God and the Last Day, and work righteousness,- on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. [5:069]

If God so willed, He could make you all one people: But He leaves straying whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases: but ye shall certainly be called to account for all your actions. [16:93]

Muslims who insist on conversion, that interfaith marriage is disallowed, or that Muslims are superior to non-Muslims are actually going against God's Word in the Quran, which says that only Allah decides who will stray, who will be devoted, and who will be judged righteous.

Edited November 22, 2006 by szsz

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I just read the article. It isn't only Muslims who hold this view. Almost all religious leaders of all faiths proclaim something similar about this religion. I know my wife's family is VERY concerned about our marriage because I am not Russian Othodox. They keep saying that they don't want their grandchildren raised as heathens or pagans.

Joel

The difference is that while all religions believe their tenets to be those shared by God, out of all the Abrahamic faiths, Islam is the onlyone that expressly allows interfaith marriage without conversion.

I haven't read every post in this thread but saw this one and just wanted to say, that the New Testament does say not to be "unequally yoked" which can cover many things including marriage, it does not say to make anyone convert to marry them, it just suggests not to marry someone of another faith or no particular faith.

There are also verses that say if you are married, both secular or of another religion, and one of you becomes a Christian, your spouse is not forced to convert. It says, if they want to stay with you, even though you have become a Christian and they do not want to become one, then stay. If they want nothing to do with you because of being a Christian, let them leave if they want to, and you can remarry someone of your faith (if you want to remarry).

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I haven't read every post in this thread but saw this one and just wanted to say, that the New Testament does say not to be "unequally yoked" which can cover many things including marriage, it does not say to make anyone convert to marry them, it just suggests not to marry someone of another faith or no particular faith.

There are also verses that say if you are married, both secular or of another religion, and one of you becomes a Christian, your spouse is not forced to convert. It says, if they want to stay with you, even though you have become a Christian and they do not want to become one, then stay. If they want nothing to do with you because of being a Christian, let them leave if they want to, and you can remarry someone of your faith (if you want to remarry).

Please allow me to supply the verses you refer to:

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has a wife who is a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. [1 Corinthians 7:12-14]

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. [1 Corinthians 7:39]

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [2 Corinthians 6:14-15]

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I haven't read every post in this thread but saw this one and just wanted to say, that the New Testament does say not to be "unequally yoked" which can cover many things including marriage, it does not say to make anyone convert to marry them, it just suggests not to marry someone of another faith or no particular faith.

There are also verses that say if you are married, both secular or of another religion, and one of you becomes a Christian, your spouse is not forced to convert. It says, if they want to stay with you, even though you have become a Christian and they do not want to become one, then stay. If they want nothing to do with you because of being a Christian, let them leave if they want to, and you can remarry someone of your faith (if you want to remarry).

Please allow me to supply the verses you refer to:

To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has a wife who is a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. [1 Corinthians 7:12-14]

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. [1 Corinthians 7:39]

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [2 Corinthians 6:14-15]

Thanks...I was going to post them along with what I wrote but I was lazy.

Here's the one about letting them leave if they want to:

15 But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace. 16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife? (1 corint 7:15-16)

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Not as wrong as this one....

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Edited November 22, 2006 by doodlebug