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Unequally yoked believers
Slim:
Hi Paula,
My wife is Jewish (non religious) and we don't really share my faith in Jesus or Universalism. However, we both love each other and I firmly understand that I am the one who needs to conform to my beliefs not her. She respects me (but probably thinks me whacky, just a little) and I respect her. I have no doubt God is executing his plan flawlessly and she is not just my wife and companion but chosen for me, by God. And what a perfect choice he made. I'll bet that is true for you too. You probably have a more curious nature than your husband and are willing to ask questions that he will not. So.....I doubt he will change unless God wishes it so. I am glad that at least you have come to learn more about what is actually in the Bible and more about God's plan. It makes so much more sense to me than any other Biblical explanation to me (Universalism) and it gives me great peace. Today I discovered I have Prostate Cancer and I have great peace that this too is part of God's plan. And since God is good and his plan is perfect, all I have to do is trust in him and rest in his plan. Whew, thank God. If I were hung up on my carnal life I would be freaking out but I am not. But I digress, I see the bigger issue is do you love each other and if so, that will be enough. If God wishes to drag your husband to Universalism he will. In the meantime, love each other.
pstrevnglstchrls:
the scripture ,Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, is an intresting one as when I was in grammar school learning language I learned an intresting thing that stayed with me all my days. I however lost the idea when it mattered most, in algebra. The idea is the use of two negatives make a positive. "Not" and un in "unequal" make the sentence a positive so the sentence reads be equally yoked together with unbelievers. You know intresting thing when Jesus our Saviour came to this earth that's what he did and when he got yoked together with this unbeliever this unbeliever got born-again. Thank you for listening oops reading God bless.
eggi:
pstrevnglstchrls,
I fail to see how your grammar/algebra trick changes the meaning of 2Co 6:14. How do you explain the rest of the verses that follows? Can you use the same grammar/algebra rule on them?
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? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2Co 6:14-18 KJV)
The Word of God is clear, we should NOT be UNequally yoked together with UNbelievers. Will light and darkness also make a positive? Or maybe it would make a neutral, so we should just be neutral? The real question here is whether this verse applies also to marriage, or put in another way: Does it apply to everything else EXCEPT marriage? And how serious must the trespasses be before one can call it darkness?
Besides, the verse reads: Be ye not [negative] unequally [negative] yoked together with unbelievers [negative] which then makes a negative again! Therefore we could say, "Be ye not equally yoked together with believers..." I think these word games lead astray when it comes to this scripture, and probably the rest of them too.
God bless you and keep you,
Eirik
PKnowler:
Thanks everyone for writing. I appreciate it! You all have given me good advice, thank you.
I know it is God's work to open my husbands eyes. I am not the Holy Spirit. I think about how much time & study it took for me to fully believe UR and have my questions answered. Though I believed the possibility after reading one scripture "every knee will bow every tongue confess" but I had a hard time with the scriptures on "those being thrown in the fire with weeping and gnashing of teeth."
After much study most of my questions have finally been answered and I have so much JOY, I just want to share it with my husband and I can't. Or I find myself continuously talking about it and I know I shouldn't so I tell him I will leave him alone and he says "I've heard that before". I ask for prayer that I will be quite in my excitement and let the Lord do His work.
Thanks, Paula
indianabob:
Paula,
You've had some good advice here in the letters that I have read in response to your query
I would add only one thing to try to give you peace of mind.
As a believing universal salvation Christian you have an advantage over most others in that you
know that your husband will have his FIRST opportunity to believe and trust God in the future.
You understand that God is a God of perfect love and is not about to waste any life that He
has given. God is not about to fail in His desire to grant salvation to each and every one.
The only thing you have to face is that your husband may be one who comes to God in the
general resurrection AFTER Christ has restored paradise to the earth. Your part in the life
of your husband and his conversion is to appreciate God's plan and to be very patient. Your
husband will be in God's family eventually if not in this first life. So, keep up the good work,
live a life of faith and trust in God and believe that God knows what is best for your husband
and will call him when the time is best for both of you and for God's holy purposes.
Think of how much Jesus sacrificed to provide salvation for each of us and then accept your
smaller sacrifice as your reasonable gift to establish the plan of God in this age. Remember that
you have the fellowship of the chat group to support you in this your work of love.
ole Indiana Bob
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