Can I Marry an Unbeliever?

By Ethel Barrett

No. One of the most important decisions in a Christian girl’s life is whom she marries.  Yet, it is an all-too-frequent tragedy that at this point specious (pleasing to the eye but deceptive) reasoning will make the most earnest of women myopic (lacking tolerance or understanding).

Here is a girl who is doing all right, when along comes Henry, and he is not a Christian.  But, “I want Henry!” she wails, and “I must have Henry; I cannot go on without Henry!”

So she marries Henry, who is still not a Christian, in the hope that he will become one. But she is asking God’s blessing on her disobedience to His explicit command:

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers ….what communion hath light with darkness?....or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?" II Corinthians 6:14-15

God’s will is sovereign; and He may still bless the marriage. Henry may get saved…. But the point is, she has no right to hold God to a promise He never made.

No Christian, man or woman, should voluntarily go into such a union.

Ethel Barrett

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Wise advice girls! The best thing you can do if you say that you’re a Christian, is to exercise faith by staying close to your parents, serve God faithfully, don’t even make a close friendship with a boy who is not a Christian in talk and walk. If he doesn’t want anything to do with your church…he is not for you. Pray for God to do what God can do best!

Trust Him to do it…