"I always guarded my relationship with God because I figured, it was no one's business but my own. This probably would never have changed had I not gotten married and decided to have children. Then, all of the sudden, I had someone I wanted to felt compelled to include in this secret I was carrying around with me. When my wife, an atheist, found out she felt lied to, packed her things, moved out and asked me for a divorce.

Moral to the story: This time around I am looking for someone who considers my faith my best attribute not my Achilles heel."

I recently posted this quote in another thread and thought it was a good synopsis of what I'm looking for. At least it's a good place to start the conversation.

Does this speak to anyone's condition?

i am a guy but i can totaly relate. we all as believers need god in the center of our relationships for it to be happily ever after. a house divides will not stand.

Agreed. You have to be totally open to your partner in all aspects of life if you want it to work. Man cannot serve two masters.

A cord of three strands is not easily broken. God is what holds a relationship together when things get tough. When situations or people in a relationship change, God will be the constant. He will never change. I wish you all the best in your venture for Godly relationships! Be blessed :)

Glad that you seem to make God your priority this time, jc. Wish you find someone who shares the same faith as you have. Someone whom you'll no longer have to keep your relationship with our loving Creator from her knowledge.

I have no problem being friends with someone who has different beliefs than me but no, I would not wish to be in love with someone who don't believe in the same God I strongly believed in. It is always nice to be able to share the same faith with our partner as this will help the relationship keep stronger. That's my personal point of view in this matter.

"Be ye not unequally yoked
together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
and what communion
hath light with darkness?"
2Corinthians 6:14


Reading from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
2 Corinthians 6:11-18

It is wrong for believers to join with the wicked and profane.
The word unbeliever applies to all destitute of true faith.
True pastors will caution their beloved children in the gospel,
not to be unequally yoked.

The fatal effects of neglecting Scripture precepts
as to marriages clearly appear.
Instead of a help meet, the union brings a snare.

Those whose cross it is to be unequally united,
without their wilful fault, may expect consolation under it;
but when believers enter into such unions,
against the express warnings of God's word,
they must expect must distress.
The caution also extends to common conversation.
We should not join in friendship and acquaintance
with wicked men and unbelievers.

Though we cannot wholly avoid seeing and hearing,
and being with such, yet we should never choose them for friends.
We must not defile ourselves by converse
with those who defile themselves with sin.

Come out from the workers of iniquity, and separate
from their vain and sinful pleasures and pursuits;
from all conformity to the corruptions of this present evil world.

If it be an envied privilege to be the son or daughter of an earthly prince,
who can express the dignity and happiness
of being sons and daughters of the Almighty?

Dear Readers,
I must take this time to ask your pardon for this article
and the many that are similar in tone.

I felt that in order to encourage believers to be be on guard
toward relationship failure that being unequally yoked by title would be their safety...but...

As I reread my previous post, some of the wording are quite harsh and presumptuous.
Unmerciful in some aspects ...words such as "the wicked"
and "the profane".

We as "believers" are called to pray for "unbelievers" in hope
that their unbelief would be healed, not criticized.

Not everyone who is yet in unbelief will remain that way.
In God's timing He will reveal His truth. Labeling others
with titles of doom and hopelessness is not a godly thing to do...

So...with the previous article I have to confess my oversight and fault.

I ask everyone's forgiveness.

Yours, in faith, now and future,
CeriseRose.

Dear Readers,
I must take this time to ask your pardon for this article
and the many that are similar in tone.

I felt that in order to encourage believers to be be on guard
toward relationship failure that being unequally yoked by title would be their safety...but...

As I reread my previous post, some of the wording are quite harsh and presumptuous.
Unmerciful in some aspects ...words such as "the wicked"
and "the profane".

We as "believers" are called to pray for "unbelievers" in hope
that their unbelief would be healed, not criticized.[/color

Not everyone who is yet in unbelief will remain that way.
In God's timing He will reveal His truth. Labeling others
with titles of doom and hopelessness is not a godly thing to do...

So...with the previous article I have to confess my oversight and fault.

I ask everyone's forgiveness.

Yours, in faith, now and future,
CeriseRose.

((((CeriseRose))))))