by Ashley Newton

Created on: December 28, 2010   Last Updated: December 31, 2010

Consider a Catholic marrying a Buddhist.  It might endure years of mellowing bliss, then eventually come to a screeching halt.  If these two individuals are strong in their religion, they would not have married outside of their religion from the start.

In the Old Testament of the King James Version of the Holy Bible, God forbade his people from marrying individuals that served other gods.  Most people nowadays believe that God was instructing his people from marrying outside of their race.  But this is not true.  The only reason that God's people did not marry outside of their race was because they were the only race who served the one true God.  God made this a law for his people because he knew that any other religion intertwined with that of his people would cause his people to fall. 

Every religion, no matter the basis, instructs its followers to serve the respected supreme being.  Some, though not all, of these religions require more than a little dedication of one's self to its cause.  It is to my knowledge that when a person is seeking to be married, they search for another individual with very similar traits, qualities, beliefs, and morals.  When someone becomes joined to another with totally conflicting views, that, to me, says, "I am not really that rooted in my own religion. There is a chance, whether large or small, that you, my spouse, may convert me to your belief." 

When a person chooses a religion, and dedicates themself to it, they non-verbally say to the world that they believe that their religion is the way that any individual should reach eternal life.  And any religion outside of that will not prosper.  So marrying someone outside of your own belief is actually telling the other person that you believe that your own religion is invalid.  That you are just in a church of your choice, simply so that you can do whatever you please, and think that you will still make it to heaven.

With this fact in mind, I do know that quite a few interfaith marriages start before the individuals "come to God."  In these unique cases, the individual that has gotten saved must lay down the law and sanctify themselves from their spouse.   I Corinthians 7:14&15 (KJV) state:  14.) For 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

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