Messianic Jews should marry...
(Pick the choice that more closely represents what you believe)
(Pick the choice that more closely represents what you believe)
I believe "Equally Yolked" means "Equally Yolked" in every possible way.
Pray4Isrel said:I believe "Equally Yolked" means "Equally Yolked" in every possible way.
I believe its under the "Do just as Justin does" option.Where is the "I'm avoiding marriage like the plague" option?
G-d clearly puts a limit - He says that a Jew is not to marry someone from the nations and that believers are not to be unequally yoked (I agree this is not ONLY speaking to marriages but to other covenant/contract relationships as well).simchat_torah said:I too was tempted to put the same thing, however, I can't put a limit on who HaShem puts together.
Henaynei said:He says that a Jew is not to marry someone from the nations
and that believers are not to be unequally yoked (I agree this is not ONLY speaking to marriages but to other covenant/contract relationships as well).
I admit I stretched it by saying Messianic rather than Messianic Jew. My reasoning is that a TRUE Messianic will be following Torah.
There are plenty of instances of intermarriage in the Tenakh. Ruth, Rahab etc. separated themselves from their people however to join the Tribe. One exception might be Esther, but even she had her rights to worship HaShem and remain culturally Jew. These sanctioned marriages, Biblical approved, were allowable because the 'faith' aspect of the bond was never used to dilute the calling to remain faithful to HaShem. Where the Tenakh doesn't approve of intermarriage is when that calling IS compromised! It is very forceful against intermarriage that leads to idolatry (Solomon, Ahab, etc., etc). Nowhere does it get more explicit than Ezra 9:BenTsion said:Since that verse doesn't clearly speak about marriage, such conclusion is open to our interpretation. While I understand and acknowledge that your interpretation is valid, I am also allowed to have my own. That's why it makes me mad when Christians (not saying you're doing that, please don't get me wrong) say that 'the Bible clearly forbids marriage betwen a believer and an unbeliever'.