@Breaking you up

posted June 20th, 2017 at 3:08 AM

I didn't realize how religious this friend was until he said that sex before marriage is wrong. It would have been different if he expressed his opinion in private rather than in a group of friends. And to add to insult, his best friend, who is another extremist in the religion, went on a mission to try to break us up. His excuse is that in his "Missionary" work he is doing the right thing. So when I hear from the girl who happens to be a mutual friend if I would take these guys back as friends? I'll pass .... I have no problem with spirituality but if these kinds of people interfere in your life and try to tell you what you can or cannot do, that's just none of their business. There's a big difference on a fanatic and a spiritual person.

4 Comments

Your religious friends don't know their own Bible.

Jun 20, 2017 at 7:25pm

As a Bible believing Christian myself, I must tell you.. There is no such thing as sex before marriage. In the Bible the very act of having sex with someone constitutes as marriage.

Although lots of people are married in the Bible, there are no descriptions of any ceremonies. Adam and Eve are “married” simply by the fact that they are made for each other and they procreate. Jacob marries Leah by mistake, which happens not because of a disguised bride at a wedding ceremony, but because he consummates the marriage in the darkness of a tent. Jesus attends a wedding in Cana which consists of a family party, but no ceremony is described.

The only “ceremony”found in the Bible is Tobit 7:12-14 in which a father places the hand of his daughter in the hand of the husband, and then writes a contract.

The reason why there are no marriage ceremonies in the Bible is because marriage did not involve a ceremony. Marriage in the Bible simply consists of a man and woman, with the consent of the woman’s father or guardian, living together and attempting procreation.

No vows, no priest, no ritual, no prayer, no pronouncement, no license, no registration.

Anonymous

Jun 21, 2017 at 4:13am

Bigotry intolerance unfortunately. You were encountering some bigotry from friends. They weren't bad people just not on the same page. Leaving someone out of a friend circle because you can't accept them and have to change them is very controlling.