interfaith marriage

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Does he let you work? Allot of self esteem can come from a job well done. This will combat the some negativity at home. Are you attending church? You should have the shelters numbers and enough money to rent an apartment on hand.
 
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I used to work before we had kids but I made the choice to stay home and homeschool our five kids I haven’t found a church yet . It’s just been me and my Bible for the last couple of years . Immersing myself and learning .. I grew up catholic but never knew Jesus as a catholic . I’m not sure which denomination to follow but I realize at some point I will need to have a community.
 

lrs68

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I have tried that in the past and it felt unproductive . He is a yeller so he will just yell louder to drown me out. What I have started to do though when he is praying in the other room with the kids I will quietly to myself say I rebuke the spirit of the Antichrist in this home , I rebuke the spirit of deception , break my family free from the stronghold of this religion in Jesus’s name ..
Yes, keep doing that (y)

And I am praying that I stand with you to God so multiple prayers and Rebuke are aimed towards the spirit controlling your husband.
 
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My mom grew up Catholic but switch to Pentecostal regardless of denomination what is important is if the pastor has the holy Spirit and is preaching the right doctrine. Mabey the church will have counseling. Perhaps he would be open to a counseling? Hopefully his heart will be softened.
But in the meantime It might be a good idea to get a job online.
If it can't be worked out. I will be praying for you. God Bless.
 

Blade

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Hello, My first post here. Any advice/scripture/prayers for an aggressive interfaith marriage ? Aggressive in the sense of aggressively against the bible and Christian beliefs. There is a lot of yelling, insulting, mocking going on. I have tried staying quiet, tried to answer his accusations of the bible or the faith with apologetics, and more recently I have resorted to answering his attacks with a similar attack on his holy book ( not proud of it but thought maybe if he felt what i felt he would stop ). This has been going on for years now and it hasn't slowed down.. Any advice of course I am praying and believing that he is in God's hands but how can i make this situation more bearable in the meantime?!
To be blunt its why were told its best not to. We as believers have all power authority over the enemy.. so one could take some authority over that house when the other is not there.. you pray over it. Open that front door and kick out what ever the lord puts on your heart. Anionite places in the house. All things are possible with the lord but He will never go against mans will. The spouse must do what He said in His word when it comes to marriage. My dad.. was ooh very very mean.. my mom loved the lord at one point he would not allow her to take me to Church. They prayed and then he let me go but that was not done over night. Again he was not saved yet one day at Church I was told by someone I must ask him for forgive me. Yeah he was the one that beat me with a board.. and called me all kind of names.. things without Christ scar you forever. She was crying when she said this to me.. I was crying.. me ask him to for give me?

So about a week later we were down stairs dad off to my left.. I see the clock above the TV (only 3 stations with PBS) the clocked showed 8:30pm. I look at him and ask "dad will you forgive me if I have ever hurt you". He looks back answers yes will you forgive me. To that I say yes. I call that woman the next day and said I did it. Her words "was it about 830 pm when you did this? I said "yes how did you know" She said "the lord told me to pray for you right then"

Now I am not sure who many understand why the lord did that. There is no "I am a Christians so I don't have to listen to you.. you sinner! " lol.. yes I do. That marriage ooh that is very sacred to God if you will its a holy covenant to God. It is not just a casual partnership. The two become one.

My dad did get saved but.. again that was not over night. To give you a tiny glimpse.. He was my step dad since I was three. He had 6 kids from his past marriage that wanted nothing to do with him. One of those kids called him pops.. he said .. do it again. He put his head into the wall. He was a marine in WWII. Those 6 kids .. were no where when he died. My bother left when he was 15? All I remember is Kenny getting up from the table.. going to his room dad going after him.. kenny screaming and... left that night. My dad got bone cancer which was never from God.. one day said "out of all my kids I feel closer to you". I forgave him.. it was not me it was Jesus. Its a past I don't like..some of you truly understand that. I will say this.. I have had many dreams with him in it.. do you know I have never had one bad one.. in each one.. he is always nice or says nothing.

Its SO easy for me to sit here and say to someone stick it out... hold on to JESUS .. but I am not there. My dad was so mean I asked my mom when I was 16 if I could leave she said yes so I did. What did God say? My dad was mean was a sinner.. blah blah blah. Just after I moved out.. I was walking out of School and in the middle of the street this car stops.. asks "are you Danny so and so? I said yes. They said "the lord told me to tell you to run home". Now a grand mother that had no clue that happened.. told me "the lord told me to tell you to run home". I didn't.. I don't care who you are or what you personally believe.. but if GOD tells you to do something and you do not do it.. it has a price.. every time. There is no. oops sorry lord forgive me. Only twice in my life did He ever tell me to do something. The other was late at night walking back to my truck after a Christian meeting.

I was in the middle of the street in HollyWood and He said "RUN" I thought.. run? Why I'm not scared" to that He said "when GOD tells you to do something you do not question it you do it" to that I smiled and said yes sir.". The short it right after that . I just passed this apartment building pitch back in side.. just as I passed two people run out jump in a car and drive backwards after me. More to that but if He said something.. just do it.. that goes for that book. Those are promises that He will keep for He cannot lie. So there are time we are somewhere He didn't put us.. Be KNOW He will never leave you.. never forsake you. and greater is HE that is in you then he thats in the world. Nothing by any means shall hurt you. So.. what someone does in a case like this.. some would say divorce.. other pray seek know He will lead you guide you. Pray.. wait on Him and ask. He will tell you and you know its of Him because you get this peace you can't explain.

My mom was going to leave him go to Colorado.. the lord told her.. if you do not take him with you he will die. She didn't know about the bone cancer.. but she loved the lord. It was only in Colorado they had the right doctors.. and the lord used man on TV haha oh praise GOD... that preacher could play the piano and sing. Fell got up fell .. but praise GOD never left the lord. The lord used that man.. at night my Dad watched him and was saved. Its people we give up on.. God never does.. no matter how much you fall.. He never stops helping you
 
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My mom grew up Catholic but switch to Pentecostal regardless of denomination what is important is if the pastor has the holy Spirit and is preaching the right doctrine. Mabey the church will have counseling. Perhaps he would be open to a counseling? Hopefully his heart will be softened.
But in the meantime It might be a good idea to get a job online.
If it can't be worked out. I will be praying for you. God Bless.
Thank you 🙏 God bless
 

ThereRoseaLamb

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I wish folks would read GW I cite before responding, being ecumenical is better than being argumentative, and you should provide a biblical basis for your opinion, please. Thanks.
No, you can't be ecumenical with false religions like Islam. Jesus is the only way, period.
 

ThereRoseaLamb

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Kingdomscitizen,

I'm sorry you are going through this. If it's your resolve to stay with your husband it might be a good idea to be quiet. There no arguement if its just one way. Take one day at time. Put all your trust in our father he will guide you.

This next part is to Hide your children and husband's passports. My mothers friend married a muslim man. She was catholic and they started fighting. He took off with the kids To the middle east. She never saw her daughters again.
Yes, there is a movie along those lines that was a true story. Once you get to their country, you lose all your rights.
 
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Yes, there is a movie along those lines that was a true story. Once you get to their country, you lose all your rights.
I've heard of woman in Kuwait that were hired help from other countries and can't leave because their passports need to be signed and in some Muslim countries woman need signatures from their dad or husband to get on a plane.
 
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No, you can't be ecumenical with false religions like Islam. Jesus is the only way, period.
I think ecumenical can mean "including or covering everything or everyone; comprehensive", which I apply per the Great Commission to philosophy as Einstein sought to do with a theory of general relativity in physics. This does not mean accepting what is false in other religions, but rather building upon what is true in both, like Paul did with respect to Judaism in the Scripture I cited.
 
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Yes I think you are right there , as proverbs says do not answer a fool with his folly or you yourself will be like him . That situation sounds like the movie Not without my daughter
Wow! seen that Movie, woe intense it is. Hoping the best since I know God wants the best for us all, not just those that believe God, All, and will not force anyone into his Kingdom

John 4:23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

No flesh pleases Father ever since Son at that cross condemned all sin to the flesh

Romans 8:3
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

God Father, pleased in Son, Son is risen to give us the New life in God Father's Spirit and Truth of love to all, having mercy to not condemn, since God has not condemned us all by that cross to beleive in Son as risen for each or not, then the new life begins in love and mercy to all and one stops fighting and arguing, that is hard to do, to keep one's mouth shut and continue to truly love as God does and has since day one in the fall of the first Adam, forwarding to this present day. Why can't we stop arguing and fighting, playing as we know more That others, especially God, who I see just loves us all y'all. Might be time to respond in love that overcame this world for us all to begin with, maybe? In Spite of what another one does or not does
Stress, leaves no rest in the midst of stress
 
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I’m not sure how to feel about your replies . In one moment you sound supportive and the other you sound like you are gaslighting . I’m not sure that you are aware , maybe it is a language barrier ?
the call is to love all, not in a flesh perspective in Daddy's perspective, PaPa's Father's

God's Love does not demand its own way (People do), is not proud in evil being done to anyone, loves all, all are freed to chose to love as Son has done it first once for us all, no in-betweens, for me anyways, thanks for your posts, hoping you find peace and serenity in the midst of adversities you are in
read it in 1 Cor 13:4-7