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Obviously a couple can live together without being married. Happens all the time. Therefore marriage is not "necessary". There. Question answered. It's no more "necessary" for a christian than it is for a non-christian. There's nothing "necessary" about anything in life, really other than...

Huh? She broke the trust barrier. You lost me on that one. She should be apologizing because he's waxing poetic to a third party about not "getting closure" with his ex-gf? Did you also note that she was upset because he's sharing this with someone besides his wife?

The guy seemingly rejects the idea of a joint account with his wife. There's nothing about "leadership" that means you get to do what you want when you want it. It's facebook not a lifesaving medication he has to have. Facebook.

Yes. Lay down the law. Put her in her place. Flirt with whomever you want to. Be a MAN. lol

"cohabitation contract"? Why even bother with that? -- Get married. It's the universal system for legally binding yourself to someone of the opposite sex. If you don't want the legal implications of marriage why would you want to sign a 'cohabitation contract"?

Yes.

We all know that some folks are kind of "off their rocker" regarding divorce. Every marriage can be saved and you must suffer, suffer, suffer as God wants you to suffer. Please, please, please don't buy into this Cin. Ok. First off, these people are usually in one of two categories: 1...

Just as long as the menfolk are also going to do their #2 standing up -- I'm all about the equal division or seats-up idea. Of course, they'll get to clean up their own mess.

I agree. Of every single person that I know who is divorced, not one of them falls into the "just unhappy about socks on the floor" or the "fell out of love" category. Not one. "irreconcilable differences" doesn't mean NO REASON. And for Christians, I suspect the frivolous divorces are fewer...

Good etiquette also means that one not post made-up stories hoping to deride other forum members' viewpoints and real-life experiences.

Apparently if you don't consider lust a sin, you'll get to answer for what your heart & genitals have been up to (pun intended).

Sometimes we'd like to make it about genitals ... but it doesn't start there. It starts with the heart. So, yeah, genitals may be involved (and likely are) ... but you don't get to "genitals" without first going through the heart.

Your tying my answer to something that you want to use it for rather than to what it was intended. -- for clarification, I was responding to the question of whether or not 2 unbelievers who become christians need to get remarried/renew their vows once they become christians. They should do...

IAL, So your point is, what? It says "likewise".

It's not sarcasm. You've got to kind of [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] your head to the side to read it as such. It's honest discourse, primarily with others (not you). If people don't like the thought of "man up" then perhaps, just "christian up" would suffice. I see no reason to have a different measuring tool for...

It depends on what the Lord leads them to do in their hearts. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall...

How about "christian up"? Yeah -- How about start acting in a christian manner in how you conduct yourself and in your thought life? Is that allowed?

Actually it was good not to marry because marriage and children take the focus off of God; not because it would be hard to divorce. Wow!! No wonder all you can think about when divorce is mentioned is how much $$ alimony would cost you. It also explains the whole "easy" aspect you allude to...

And in the end, women are the one's who end up with the short straw in that contest ... (if you actually take the Bible to say that men will rule over women. Which, I don't read into that at all, btw). Women definitely get "punished" more than men if you think that God decreed that men would...

How is that a consequence only for Adam (death). Seems to me that that particular consequence was meted out to both genders.