I meant to include this before.
Concerning Married Life
12 To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. 13 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. (1 Cor. 7:12-14)
The bible talks about being unequally yoked with a non-believer, but what if the non-believer is equally yoked with you in all other respects outside of religion?
ie - you have a lot in common, you have the best conversations, you make each other happy, you love and support each other, you work to make each other better people, you don't try to change each other for having different beliefs, you love and accept each other for your differences as well as your similarities, you don't pressure each other to sway beliefs.
Is two people being of different faith but having amazing chemistry (and respect for each other) not enough? Is it really better to be with someone you have less chemistry with simply because of shared beliefs? Is faith alone really enough to sustain a healthy relationship?
My boyfriend is Christian and goes to church regularly on Sundays. I am the non-believer and since we have started dating I go to church with him on the weeknight service, which he never used to go to before me. I work on Sundays so can't come but have a genuine interest in going if I ever get the day off. This week, I will be going to a service without him because he is working and I want to go still. I have been coming to him with all sorts of questions from things I've been reading in the Bible as well as forums. That said, I do not plan on converting. It's not that I do not believe in a creator. I just don't believe that the Bible is the only Truth. I believe that it is one interpretation of a truth. I have a problem with the way the Bible has been translated, re-written, edited, re-edited so many times over the last thousands of years. I believe that even if the Bible was once the word of God, it has lost much of it's original meaning in all the translations and editing. I view the Bible more as book of stories about how to live a good life and be a good person. I do not pressure him to believe what I believe and he does not pressure me to believe what he does. We respect each others differences. We compromise. I want him to sleep over, he wants to but knows he shouldn't because of his faith. So I accept this about him and wait patiently for the day we might marry. But I want to make sure that I'm good for him despite not believing in God as the one and only Truth. I see God a possible truth, but I do not, and don't think I will ever see Him as an absolute Truth. Since I do not have any specific religion, I would have no issues raising children Christian. I love the church community and would want my children to grow up around and that goodness. I don't believe in God, but I still see value in the church and I appreciate and respect the morals it teaches.