Interdenominational Dating

I keep misreading the title of this thread as "Inter - Dimensional" dating.

Anyone interested dating someone from another dimension??

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Wayholka said:

I have with a chick from the fifth dimension. Dated her for a few weeks before I accidentally made her say her name backwards.

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I guess that made her disappear!

timewerx said:

Anyone interested dating someone from another dimension??

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I haven't had much luck with dating anyone from this dimension, so why not?

It's often a bad idea to date someone from other denominations, but there are of course exceptions.

I was talking to a friend of mine last week at a birthday party and noticed that he and his wife were being very cold to each other. I had noticed their discomfort around each other a couple of months ago at a prior social gathering, but it was more pronounced this time.

I was talking to him about my continued search for a church and he said I should visit his. I asked if he and his wife still went to the same non-denominational Bible-based church and he replied that she does, but he started going to a Seventh Day Adventist church.

Not sure if that had anything to do with their relationship going downhill, but I can't imagine that it helped..

While I think that all Christians should be open to other believers views on the things of faith and differences challenge us and cause us to love within diversity, when it comes to marriage I believe the ideal is to find somebody within your own scope of doctrinal beliefs and convictions. Why?
The Bible asks how can two walk with each other unless they be agreed. (Amos 3:3)
I realize there are exceptions to the rules because God gives grace and mercy, but for me personally I would rather find someone that is within my own denomination.

I care less about what denomination they consider themselves apart of and more about how they interpret scripture. For example I am a Calvinist, do I care if she was a Presbyterian or Dutch Reformed, say? Not really, because doctrinally speaking they're basically the same. Now if she were a catholic, the differences there go well beyond "minor differences", we're talking about major theological differences. Could we get along? Of course. Could we have a stable marriage? Probably. However, what am I supposed to teach our children if it ever comes to that? If both parents are teaching a different doctrine, that is not a unified household.

I will say that in the past my answer would have been I didn't care, so long as they were a Christian, but now, I mean, it's more than just "I'm presbyterian" or "I'm catholic"...etc. we're talking about major theological differences, the biggest of which I can think of off the top of my head is each respective group's teachings on salvation. You may choose not to think about topics like that or look into it or think it matters, but when you are raising children and you are instructing them on the way they should go, which way do you tell them? How do you instruct them? Which way is right? Because if the father is saying one thing and the mother is saying another, that's just not a unified household, and I don't think that will end well, or at the very least will not be as effective as it could be if both parents were on the same page.

Anyway I'll leave it there.

I would date anyone I generally share values with, whether they are any denomination of Christianity or another another religion entirely.

Servant68 said:

I was talking to a friend of mine last week at a birthday party and noticed that he and his wife were being very cold to each other. I had noticed their discomfort around each other a couple of months ago at a prior social gathering, but it was more pronounced this time.

I was talking to him about my continued search for a church and he said I should visit his. I asked if he and his wife still went to the same non-denominational Bible-based church and he replied that she does, but he started going to a Seventh Day Adventist church.

Not sure if that had anything to do with their relationship going downhill, but I can't imagine that it helped..

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I won't speculate, but I know from experience that that sort of thing can really weigh down a marriage. Your suspicions could very well be right.

I used to only go with other Messianics, but I would be willing to date another denomination. Marriage is a completely different subject. Something would have to give. I'm raising the kids Messianic no ifs ands or buts