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What I was dealing with is IF a saved Christian man or woman HAS married a lost person, there is no “penalty” or “condemnation” of that marriage after it is consummated.
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No, but I'm sure we can agree that they will have to give an account for their actions in marrying an unbeliever at The Judgment.
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The saved man or woman clearly was out of the will of the Lord in marrying a lost person,
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Amen.
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but once they are married, the lost spouse is “sanctified” by the saved spouse; and we Christians should NOT be looking down our noses at the marriage – because God has SANCTIFIED it.
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Agreed. As I stated earlier, I got lost in the thread, but was someone suggesting that we should?
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We had better be mighty careful (just because we may have “good” marriages), that we don’t go around judging Christians that may have ignorantly or willfully married a lost person.
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Ignorantly married a lost person...sure, I'll give you that.
Willfully? James 4:17 comes to mind.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
While it's not up to us to shake a finger, scowl and judge, it will be judged as sin by God. I don't believe as a state of sin, but a single act of sin.
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So WHAT BUSINESS IS IT of ours to “CRITICIZE” these marriages, or the saved Christian who entered into such a marriage? IT'S STILL A MARRIAGE!
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Surely no one argued differently?
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Who knows? “For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?” [1 Corinthians 7:16]
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Interestingly I have heard this quoted a time or 2 in defense of marrying an unbeliever in attempts to win them to the Lord.