ANSWERS: 6
  • Yes, so don't leave. Stay there. Work it out!
  • Not until the partner hooks up with someone else.
  • I am not Baptist, but I believe Larry has a good answer. 1Cor 7:11 "but if she should actually depart, let her remain unmarried or else make up again with her husband; and a husband should not leave his wife" 1Cor 7:15 "But if the unbelieving one proceeds to depart, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not in servitude under such circumstances, but God has called YOU to peace". http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Cor%207:10-16;&version=9;77;50;49;47;
  • When we take the vows of marriage, there are there for life. God only brought in the ways to break up the marriage because of our sin. He forgives us by His grace and mercy, but it is not right to leave our spouses. We learn that in Genesis. Genesis 2 v 22 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh
  • according to the Baptist and more importantly according to the Bible. 1 corinthians 7: 13And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. 15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. the last verse says it all. if they want to stay then fine but if they want to leave you are not bound to them.
  • Is "leaves" to be defined as desertion, abandonment, or divorce? Until the marriage is legally terminated I'd expect (being a lifelong Baptist) that the couple are still considered as married. This is one reason that Christians/Baptists are counseled against being "unequally yoked," i.e., a believer married to a non-believer.

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