I've known a lot of Christian guys who have gone and married Atheists.
Is this a sin?
I can't really imagine it so but I was just wondering.
Or is it a lot more complex than that?
Below we are warned not to marry an unbeliever.
2 Corinthians 6
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?
And what communion has light with darkness?
And what accord has Christ with Belial?
Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
Below we are admonished to stay with a spouse if married before one or the other becomes a believer.
1 Corinthians 7 Keep Your Marriage Vows
10 Now to the married I command,
yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from
her husband.
11 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to
her husband. And a husband is not to divorce
his wife.
12 But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.
13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
15 But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such
cases. But God has called us to peace.
16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save
your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save
your wife?
So to the person who is a Christian and who marries an unbeliever,
they do so with a warning against such a marriage but if they marry anyway,
they are told to honor the marriage.
All sin can be forgiven.
Marrying an unbeliever is wrong because
it will cause an unequal marriage between a believer in Christ and
one who believes there is no God.
This is like trying to wed darkness and light or truth and lies
and will bring disunity between a husband and wife
and cause potential problems with how the children will be raised
in the future not to mention the arguements over faith or beliefs.
God is warning us as believers NOT TO DO IT, not to marry an unbeliever.
A marriage is made when GOD joins a man and woman and
the two become one. Man did not institute marriage, God did.
So if a man goes against God's warning against a marriage between a follower of
Christ and one who has no faith at all in God, then it is a sin
to disreguard God's purpose for marriage and to marry against God's better
judgement that He gives for our benefit.
All sin can be forgiven in Christ but the consequences are still very real.
God shows us in the Old testament that His people were not to intermarry
with those who where not of the faith so why do we suddenly
disreguard God's warning to His people then?.
But if we disreguard God's advice as Christians, we still must honor the marriage
that we enter into...
As Paul said at the beginning of 1 Cor 7:10 that the Lord commands that
once married the believer is obligated to honor the marriage and not to be the
one who would seek a divorce when it gets rough.
God gives us wisdom for a reason and when we choose to follow our own
way and not God's way, yes that is sin, the sin of pride by choosing
to think that we know better than God.
So yes it is wrong for a believer to disreguard God's warning and marry an
unbeliever but God will forgive us our foolishness if we ask Him to in Christ
but we may suffer from our disreguard of God's better judgements..
