Does a Christian man divorce his unbelieving wife, when she refuses God?
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hi, \n It is a hard thing to be married to someone who does not share ur beliefs.... the Bible states that when a man and a woman r joined together in marriage they r not to separate.... 1 Cor 7:12-16 gives a firm direction from the apostle Paul for the very situation u r in and why he feels this way....\nGod bless and be with u in this time\nShaz\nx x x x x x
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Biblically, Yes.\n\nI married an agnostic, Im a Christian, so personally, I dont care.
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BRAVO! BRAVO!!\nYou got it that right, for sure!  I have spent the last 15 years of my life in Bible study and enjoying that relationship with God, \nand studying prophecy, etc - even the Biblical languages --BUT:\nI do not attend any church. Why?  Because the churches are so steeped in the traditions of man, and church systems that they are biblically illiterate.  If they knew what the Word really says, and lived by it, they would not be judging anybody to hell.  They  make a divorced person sit in the back pew and treat them as a second-class christian, for example, when the Bible does not declare divorce a sin - adultery is the sin, not divorce.  And,\nupon repentance it is wiped away-gone- God doesn't even want it brought up again in prayer.  And, a person is free then to re-marry.  Salvation isn't free, it was bought with an awesome price,\nso that with repentance we could be free in Christ.  Sometimes I wonder where they do get some of their nonsense from - I can tell you - it certainly isn't from God.  Mans traditions make void the Word of God.  God states that a Christian who acts "holier than thou" is like a smoke in his nose - do you know what you do when smoke gets in your nose? You get rid of it.
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Yes-absolutely. Your spouse may become a Christian while attempting to raise his children correctly.\nUnless this unsaved spouse has shown you that to stay with him your life will be miserable. But you do not mention any problems, only that one is saved and one is not.
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Per the Judeo/Christian Bible, "no."\nBut most people who claim themselves to be Christian in this country don't practice what they preach.  The rate of divorce alone demonstrates that point.  From a "civil" perspective, why not?  They can't do any worse than what the heterosexuals have done.\nFrom my own perspective, "no."
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I think it says in the Timothy (one or two I can't remember) or Titus (or both) that a church elder must be a husband of one wife.  So no, if he has two wives, not only is he not able to meet the requirement of being a pastor, he's also in violation of his faith by being polygamous....I'm assuming this man claims to be Christian.  He needs to be separated from his wife (his second I think, since he's legally married to the first)
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Is your husband a Christian, too?  Do you have an older couple in your congregation that you admire who might be able to counsel you?
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I can't speak from the Muslim religous aspect but can tell you I have a female Christian friend married to a Muslim.  Their relationship & marriage was fantastic at first but once their daughter was born things changed.  His religion took presidence.  He sent his daughter overseas to be raised by his family & their beliefs and he refuses to allow my friend to go to church anymore.  Not to say, this is what would happen if you were to marry this man.\n\nNext, I am sure you have prayed on this long and hard.  If you are finding more discomfort, worry, fear or confusion in marrying this person than the Holy Spirit is probably warning you not to.  God is a God of order.  He has not given you the spirit of fear but of love, of power and of a sound mind.\n\nI would recommend getting into the concordance of your Bible and look up marriage and divorce to be sure you line up all of your questions, feelings & decisions to what the word says.  Read all the scripture from the Old & New Testament.  Write the ones down that jump off the page and meditate on them.  Fast if you feel you are not finding the direction you should take.\n\nYou can use an online website http://www.crosswalk.com to do some of your research if a Bible isn't handy.\n\nRemember one thing, no one can tell you the path you should choose and they don't know how God is leading you.  This is something only you can figure out.  Close your mind off to all worldly views and seek after God for His decision in your life.\n\nI will say from everything I've read on the subject, as a Christian, you would not be in sin.  But I think you would be opening doors to a very difficult life in comparison to waiting on God to bring you a Christian man.\n\nDivorce is not an option - it never is.  So marrying this person no matter what happens until death do you part will be a vow you make with God.  Be sure you are truly ready to make this kind of committment before going any further. \n\nKeep in mind, someone who believes in a god other than the one we know is not led by a Holy & loving God.  Therefore, you end up joining together as one with someone who is being led by something else.  Ultimately, their decisions and mind are not being formed by the living word, the Holy Spirit and our heavenly Father.  If he doesn't have a relationship with Jesus Christ than you are not going down the same path.\n\nI realize you must love this man very much or the question you pose wouldn't be so heart wrenching.  I pray you find your way and the life ahead is filled with much love, peace & joy.\n\nI am happy to chat more if you want to write.
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According to the Bible she must remain single or be reconciled to her husband, period.\n\nThat being said, salvation is a gift from God, and as such she can not find herself condemned to hell simply for being weak.
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It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n(Matthew 5:3,32)\n   \n\nAnd the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.\n--Mark 10:2-12 \n And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart,, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, 0 wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, 0 man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.\n--I Corinthians 7:1-17 \n\n\nNow, for those who are married I have a command, not just a suggestion. And it is not a command from me, for this is what the Lord Himself has said: A wife must not leave her husband. But if she is separated from him, let her remain single or else go back to him. And the husband must not divorce his wife." I Corinthians 7:10-11, TLB\n\n\n"Why has God abandoned us?" you cry. I'll tell you why; it is because the Lord has seen your treachery in divorcing your wives who have been faithful to you through the years, the companions you promised to care for and keep. You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in His sight. And what does He want? Godly children from your union. Therefore guard your passions! Keep faith with the wife of your youth. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says He hates divorce and cruel men. Therefore control your passions—let there be no divorcing of your wives." Malachi 2:14-16, TLB\n\nDo not lose heart, for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  II Corinthians 4:17\n\n\nIf Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men. But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.            I Corinthians 15:17-22
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For a believer marriage can only come between Him and a believing woman to do less is disobedience....   Jim
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God has never pitted us against each other.  That is the work of Satan.  God is showing his love for us all.  He sent his only Son, Jesus Christ to die for us all.  There can be no greater love than that!  Revelations is a warning to you and you are not listening.  God's Church will be raptured and spared the Judgments.  The non-believers and the followers of the Antichrist will not change.  They will question God, they will curse God and then they will have to answer to God.  It's not difficult to accept His Word and lead a Christian life.  You have to read the whole Bible, not just pick and choose.  You have to thank God and accept Jesus as your Savior then you will be born again.  You will have the Holy Spirit within you.  You will understand God's love and grace.
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NO WAY. The Bible says NOTHING about Jesus Christ being married to anybody.
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Not born again..... but a true christian would not fornicate/commit adultery.  However, we are imperfect and we will make mistakes.  Be honest and be ready to face the consequences of your mistake.  Tell your spouse.  If you don't, it's like lying....and don't forget, the father of the lie is Satan and we don't want to do his will!\n\nClick below for articles based on Bible scriptures to assist you further.   \n\nI hope the best for you or who ever you're asking the question for.
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Divorce- \n" 'It has been said, "Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce."[ref. Deut. 24:1] But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.' "  \n - Matt. 5:31-32 \n\nHomosexuality - \n\n"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.\n\nTherefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.\n\nBecause of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."\n\n- Rom. 1:21-27\n\n\nDouble-standard? I don't think so. Are there certain actions that are not condoned? Certainly. But in a true Christian setting all people will be welcomed. They are in my church & my circle of friends. How can we expect Christ to forgive us for our shortcomings when we won't forgive others? The problem is some judge instaeda of giving & find fault instead of accepting.\n\n\nUpdate - \nMy opinion on why? Because the church has adopted the world's ways rather than relying on the Bible and made excuses for itself. We sin - we make mistakes. But 50% is not mistake - that's the culture.
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well, i wouldn't tell you to divorce him, it really does depend on you. but i want you to know that him telling you he is still with the other woman because of the child they have together is a BIG LIE. don't let him deceive you. he needs to come clean with you. no man will stay with a woman because of a child he must really have something for her.\nyour staying with him or divorcing him is a decision for you to take. are you a Muslim or a christian? the christian law does not permit polygamy but the Muslim law does. \nif you are a Muslim i guess he has a right to other wives but really sticking with him is a decision you need to take.
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Lady, IT'S WRONG!!!!!\nExodus 20:14  Thou shalt not commit adultery.\n\nLeviticus 20:10  And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.\n\nDeuteronomy 5:18  Neither shalt thou commit adultery.\n\nProverbs 6:32  But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.\n\nJeremiah 3:8  And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.\n\nJeremiah 3:9  And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.\n\nJeremiah 5:7  How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.\n\nJeremiah 7:9  Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;\n\nJeremiah 23:14  I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.\n\nJeremiah 29:23  Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.\n\nEzekiel 16:32  But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!\n\nEzekiel 23:37  That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.\n\nHosea 4:2  By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.\n\nHosea 4:13  They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.\n\nHosea 4:14  I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.\n\nMatthew 5:27  Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:\n\nMatthew 5:28  But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.\n\nMatthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:9  And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:18  He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,\n\nMark 10:11  And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.\n\nMark 10:12  And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.\n\nMark 10:19  Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy f