Should a Christian date an unbeliever? Why or Why not?

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Never, - the Bible talks about being "unevenly yoked".

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It depends on what you are defining from the bible as 'believers'. Is it a belief in Christianity. What if you are a believer as the prophet Muhammad as bringing the final word of God. What if you are a believer in a polytheistic religion such as Hinduism.

Considering how outdated some moral teachings are in the Bible, one cannot not take certain passages literally for their convenience. Either accept the entire bible in its totality or nothing at all. Simply non tolerance for secularism and the proliferation of these such beliefs is the exact backward thinking that should be avoided if we want any kind of progress in the world where humans can evolve and create a more peaceful world to live in....Show more

Christian's should not form a close liaison with a non-believer whether in business or marriage, for decisions need to be made from time to time and the Christian ethic generally does not agree with worldly or fashionable principles, by which most people live their life.

This verse says it clearly ."Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers...Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?......What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?..."
2 Corinthians6:14
In my case my husband-to-be was a believer but not a Christian, so I had to prayerfully consider whether I should marry him. Had I been very much involved in church life it may not have been a good move, but being a nurse on rotas I could not be closely involved in church activity anyway so it made little difference to my practical Christian life. My intended lived a good quiet hard-working life so his life style was not anti-Christian. However! 20years later he had a powerful vision and was filled and anointed by the Holy Spirit in one fell swoop! In a sense he overtook me in faith and fervour!

In most of the UK the church is full of women of all ages so the possibility of never marrying to have a home and family is very real for Christian women, I was in middle-age, so, many have to face falling in love with a non-Christian when marriage is on the cards. The wisest thing is to come clean about one's Christian and church commitment, but to bluntly say that Jesus will always come first is likely to kill both romance and passion stone dead! for Christians simply do not understand this loyalty.
Who one should marry is a matter between the Christian and God, but some Christian friends and acquaintances will voice there own opinions!
There is also the promise that the unbelieving spouse will be sanctified by the believing spouse, in
1 Cor. 7:14. - Children are sanctified by one believing spouse.
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Thats true but I believe that sometimes God puts us with unbelievers so we can be a good example and win them for Christ... If all the believers hung out with believers then what good are we? Reach out and find someone lost and nurture them and care for them and show them the word by being a doer and example... Jesus hung out with people that no one would talk to and in the mean time just looked what happened.. Those men are the disciples who went out into the world and preached and changed the face of Christianity to be what it is today... So don't turn your back.. There are plenty of Bible verses that support this also.. Being Yoked..to me is being married.... If your fiancee isn't converted by the time you get married then don't yoke with that person...Just one person can be responsible for caring for another lost person and in the meantime change the world and bring many to salvation...Show more

Dating simply doesn't exist in the Bible. I'm surprised a believer asks this.

So, if you're the woman then the man should come to your father and he should give the Ok to marry you.

There are plenty of examples in the OT for this but I can't think of any proscribed dating except for a few cases involving unbelievers and fornication and God didn't bless it.

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