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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT DATING 💖...

Dating is a beautiful time, when the couple develops friendship and gets to know each other better. Each learns more about the other's personality and the two think about the possibility of spending the rest of their lives together as a family.

But dating is not marriage. The commitment of marriage is for life; the courtship can be dissolved at any time. Dating is not a safe context for a sexual relationship. That's why it's important to set limits on dating and avoid sexual immorality. Dating is the time to enjoy friendship before taking a more serious commitment.

dating in the bible

two people will walk together

if they don't agree?

Amos 3:3

     

Then the Lord God declared, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him someone who will help him and respond to him."

Genesis 2:18

     

"Food was made for the stomach and the stomach for food," but God will destroy both. The body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:13

     

Do not become unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what do justice and evil have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony between Christ and Belial? What is there in common between the believer and the unbeliever?

2 Corinthians 6:14-15

     

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins that one commits, outside the body, commits them; but whoever sins sexually, sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit that dwells in you, that it was given to you by God, and that you are not your own? You were bought at a price. Therefore, glorify God with your own body.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

     

Don't be fooled: "Bad company corrupts good habits."

1 Corinthians 15:33

     

Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,

but the wise wife comes from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

     

Marriage must be honored by all; the conjugal bed, kept pure; for God will judge the immoral and the adulterer.

Hebrews 13:4

     

But if they cannot control themselves, they must marry, for it is better to marry than to be on fire with desire.

1 Corinthians 7:9

     

Above all, guard your heart,

for on him his whole life depends.

Proverbs 4:23

     

Women of Jerusalem, I make them swear:

do not awaken or disturb love

as long as he doesn't want it.

Songs 8:4

     

Above all, however, clothe yourself with love, which is the perfect link.

Colossians 3:14

As Valentine's Day is here, let's talk about: Can you start dating? After all, what is dating? How is it seen by the Bible and how should a Christian view it?

 

First of all, the awakening of a feeling or attraction to someone of the opposite sex DOES NOT mean that you are ready for a relationship; Also, you shouldn't run out to date just because all your friends have a girlfriend.

 

All this because, biblically speaking, a date only makes sense if you want to MARRY the other person. If there is no such desire or purpose, before God, you are just playing and looking for someone out of need, to kiss, to hug, to not be alone. It's a selfish motive.

 

Sound radical? It's because we live by accepting more what our culture gives us than what the BIBLE teaches us...

 

Paul Washer once said:

"When young Christians, or anybody in the church tells me someone is dating, then I go to the young, let's say 16 year old, or the 16 year old girl with a big [commitment] ring on her finger, and I say :

"Hi, what is this?"

"Well I'm dating."

"Congratulations! When are you getting married?"

"WHAT!?!?"

"Yes, what is the date?"

"But I'm not getting married!"

"So what are you guys doing?"

"Ah… I have him."

"Because?"

"Because I want to be"

"AND?"

The conversation usually ends with them leaving..."

 

It's what we call "Recreational Dating". “...is dating for fun. Dating without a purpose. Dating to receive certain things from a person of the opposite sex, outside the proper context of marriage. It's getting into a relationship in a frivolous way, just to entertain yourself. Just for fun, but not thinking too much about God's will. Without thinking about the well-being of the person we are relating to. Without thinking about the future, and about God's plans for our lives.”

 

This does not exist in the bible, not even in the cultures of the peoples of the world, except in modern western culture (exactly the one we live in).

The Bible says “and for this reason man leaves his father and mother to be united with the woman” (Genesis 2:24). There is no idea in the Bible of a boy or girl, under the roof of their parents and being supported by them, who will go out and have fun with someone of the opposite sex. She says that to be together with someone you must leave your father and mother, that is, have the purpose of joining the other person forever.

So when the desire for the opposite sex appears in the flower of youth, it is not a sign from God that you should have a relationship with someone, but it is a sign from God that the time has come for you to seek to grow as a man and woman of God, to grow in responsibility , in your maturity, in your feelings, in your support tool, for only when you are prepared for it, and in prayer, to look for someone to marry. And God will bless you for it.

 

-A Christian dates for purpose, not need.

 

 

#FranciscoNetoABND

 

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