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why do people want to get married?
How can you helpfully advise a friend who has recently become a Christian, who wants to start to go out with a non-Christian boy/girl?
Is it ok for the girl to ask the guy out? – does that undermine his leadership role?
When will be a good time to find a gf/bf?
Hi, just a question to the first question… why do you ask? As in, because you see so many poor/broken/failed marriages, why bother? Or another reason?
it’s because I want to understand why everyone assumes that everyone wants a relationship..
why not start at the bottom with.. why not singleness?
Does the Bible say anything in regards to what we should look for in a relationship or can we sometimes just trust our gut feelings/reasoning?
Statistically speaking, considering the number of Christians there are we should be able to use the Central Limit Theorem to make the assumption that there are equal amounts of male and female Christians.
So why does it seem so hard to find single female Christians?
what’s stopping someone from leaving a relationship/marriage if the person is very unhappy in the relationship and/or subjected to emotional (but NOT physical) abuse?
hi guys;
can someone put the Qns up from tonight?
i have thought about some answers to Qns:
Q1) with J’s 1st abd 2bd coming in mind, what is the purpose of marriage?
A1) Marriage, like work and other bits of creation, are good for this lifetime, and enjoyable, but some bits of it are ultimately vain in light of the new creation (cf Ecclesiates)
Q2) If single how does one achieve the biblical mandate of be fruitful and multiply?
A2) that is a mandate to mankind, not to individuals. Especially after the fall, some of this is not achievable (e.g. some ppl are infertile, so it’s not expected for them to contribute to this mandate). It is also important to realise the impact of the fall to this mandate of being fruitful and multiply. although we still have lots of kids, at times we don’t do it well (e.g. single parents, malnutrition, abuse,etc ) are a by product of the fall.
Hi Adrian,
do you mean the three unanswered questions? You just answered two directly and the third indirectly. It was
“it’s not good for man to be alone”. How does that fit with the single person? (That God creates some to be single)
I would say the answer is A3). That is A1) + A2)
(honestly, I think the answer is between those… not being alone is not the mandate for every individual. And A1) means that it’s ok to be single too)