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I differ with brother tourist. I believe it's proper that they get married properly. Because so many people nowadays shack up together without being married, that's fornication, a form of immorality. On top of that, even Israel did so (marry properly).
If the Gentiles in the world today get married, what example as heirs of the kingdom would be to not marry properly?
If the Gentiles in the world today get married, what example as heirs of the kingdom would be to not marry properly?
Adam and Eve didn't have a marriage certificate. just sayin..
but i agree with Spokenpassage -- just like John told Jesus that he needed to be baptized by Him, not the other way around, but Jesus replied it was "fitting to fulfill all righteousness" -- it's also fitting to fulfill all righteousness that we declare to public law the same that God has declared to our hearts.
why hide from the government what is open before God? we're a city on a hill. so i wouldn't say "oh they are living in sin" and condemn them for lack of a proper legal document - is it my place to judge anyone, or God's? - but i would say it's foolish not to obey or respect the authorities God has set in place, when doing so in no way contradicts the law of love, and in fact in this case upholds His word that "the two become one flesh"
but i agree with Spokenpassage -- just like John told Jesus that he needed to be baptized by Him, not the other way around, but Jesus replied it was "fitting to fulfill all righteousness" -- it's also fitting to fulfill all righteousness that we declare to public law the same that God has declared to our hearts.
why hide from the government what is open before God? we're a city on a hill. so i wouldn't say "oh they are living in sin" and condemn them for lack of a proper legal document - is it my place to judge anyone, or God's? - but i would say it's foolish not to obey or respect the authorities God has set in place, when doing so in no way contradicts the law of love, and in fact in this case upholds His word that "the two become one flesh"
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I see it as a cop out. People can give the 'common law' argument, but at the end of the day it's just two people who have set themselves up to separate more easily.
There's also the case of it looking bad for your witness.
Shacking up together is not a covenant. It's a convenience.
But as to whether any of us can say if these people would go to hell over this, no one can answer that. As stated above, if they aren't Christians, then it doesn't matter. But often times God condemns people whose lives are actively and perpetually in sin with no conscious. So, though we can't speak to the matter for sure, we can know that they put themselves at great risk.
There's also the case of it looking bad for your witness.
Shacking up together is not a covenant. It's a convenience.
But as to whether any of us can say if these people would go to hell over this, no one can answer that. As stated above, if they aren't Christians, then it doesn't matter. But often times God condemns people whose lives are actively and perpetually in sin with no conscious. So, though we can't speak to the matter for sure, we can know that they put themselves at great risk.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.
Fornicators and adulterers go to the Lake of Fire, if they don't get regenerated.
I think that at least in states that have it, common law marriage is marriage.
satan is the author of confusion. I think that with some couples the relationship is so confused that it is hard to be able to
say if they are married or not.
How do you know that they love, agape love?
If one is unsaved, one can act nice as part of one's own ego bolstering, but to be truly loving, it requires a miracle of God in a regenerate person. Love is the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5).
Fornicators and adulterers go to the Lake of Fire, if they don't get regenerated.
I think that at least in states that have it, common law marriage is marriage.
satan is the author of confusion. I think that with some couples the relationship is so confused that it is hard to be able to
say if they are married or not.
How do you know that they love, agape love?
If one is unsaved, one can act nice as part of one's own ego bolstering, but to be truly loving, it requires a miracle of God in a regenerate person. Love is the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5).
