Can marriage ever be a sin if both are Christian

[RDKirk]

In that case? "He who has found a good wife, has found grace from the Lord." Will still apply.
Many will be wishing they were single and burning again....

You know how many bad marriages are out their because the relationship was based upon a wave of libido?
Its better to wait, not leap because of lust.

Well, finding a "good" wife is always the intent.

Sign up for the army and that will keep you distracted long enough.
You would then be surprised to find out how much self control God's grace will provide.

Umm, no. Having been an Army brat and then spending 26 years in the military myself, no, the military provides as much or more temptation than distraction. "What goes TDY stays TDY."

 

[RDKirk]

So if you are divorced it is ok to remarry? Paul said you will have problems in the flesh and it is better to remain single. Of course it is not always so easy to be single either. There are married people that want to be single and single people that want to be married.

That was in the same passage that Paul said it's better to marry than to burn.

Paul is merely being realistic, not prohibitive when he says marriage brings with it "problems in the flesh." Clearly, he's talking about the perfectly obvious additional concerns a man has being responsible for a family. I have myself advised young troops not to rush into marriage (particularly that stripper or bargirl that caught their eye last night). Being married in the military is going to bring additional concerns that a single person would not have. Of course.

That doesn't mean a married soldier can't be an effective soldier. And we see that Aquila and Priscilla certainly were effective as a married couple in Christ.

 

[Diamond72]

Well, finding a "good" wife is always the intent.

If you want to find a good wife you have to be good husband material. So we need to work on ourselves.

 

[GenemZ]

Well, finding a "good" wife is always the intent.

Umm, no. Having been an Army brat and then spending 26 years in the military myself, no, the military provides as much or more temptation than distraction. "What goes TDY stays TDY."

Not as a brat.... as a recruit and in training not familiar to what goes on behind the scenes.
The French Foreign legion used to attract men wishing to avoid a relationship in marriage.

And, that was only a suggestion for whom the shoe fits.

 

[RDKirk]

If you want to find a good wife you have to be good husband material. So we need to work on ourselves.

Sliding back that ol' goalpost.

 

[GenemZ]

If one has the spiritual gift of celibacy. Otherwise, it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

Celibacy does not have to be a permanent gift.

Just like having to wear a cast while broken bone heals.
The cast is needed for when it was needed.
Celibacy is God's provision for some while He wants them to first seek and grow up in sound doctrine.

 

[RDKirk]

Celibacy does not have to be a permanent gift.

Just like having to wear a cast while broken bone heals.
The cast is needed for when it was needed.
Celibacy is God's provision for some while He wants them to first seek and grow up in sound doctrine.

Just since you have it when you need it. If you're burning with lust at the moment, you don't have it...and you can't presume you'll have it later, otherwise Paul was wasting his breath.

 

[GenemZ]

Just since you have it when you need it. If you're burning with lust at the moment, you don't have it...and you can't presume you'll have it later, otherwise Paul was wasting his breath.

Ye... here is what Paul said to both married and the single.

Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time,
so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so
that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this
as a concession, not as a command. I wish that all of you were as I am.
But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.​

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Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do."​

1 Corinthians 7:5-8

 

[RDKirk]

Ye... here is what Paul said to both married and the single.

Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, ​

so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so ​

that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I say this ​

as a concession, not as a command. I wish that all of you were as I am. ​

But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.​

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Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do."​

1 Corinthians 7:5-8

Do you think I haven't read that entire letter? Yet, you disingenuously cut it out of its full context as though I don't have intelligence enough to read the entire thing. That's not only disingenuous, it's also insulting.

 

[GenemZ]

Do you think I haven't read that entire letter? Yet, you disingenuously cut it out of its full context as though I don't have intelligence enough to read the entire thing. That's not only disingenuous, it's also insulting.

I just read the entire chapter....

Show us more Scripture to show how what I cited was not enough.

 

[JesusFollowerForever]

Mike, Nothing wrong to marry the woman you love, Peter was married yet Jesus chose him. Please do what your heart desires.

Matthew 19:4-6
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."