Author	Thread: Dating vs Courting?
OhZone View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 4 Jul, 2012 06:43 PM Not until I started hanging out on Christian dating sites had I ever heard of the term "courting" in anything other than my grandparents' generation. I'd like to know if you see a distinction and if so, what is it to you? Thanks, O3 Post Reply
View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 4 Jul, 2012 07:27 PM When a man dates women, he is searching for whatever it is that he is wanting in a woman. When a man Courts a woman, he has found the One he wants and is planning to marry her. It is very simple but most do not know the difference in the two terms. lol Post Reply
View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 6 Jul, 2012 08:04 AM The differences is also in the way you're treating each other as well. If you are dating someone in a worldly sense it usually means you're doing things mostly married people would be expected to do and you're out to get what you want from that relationship even if it involves hurting both you and the other person as well. Courting focuses more on commitment snd generally it's understood that if you're courting someone you're seeing if it is good that you should marry that person. Post Reply
jz4jfministries View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 6 Jul, 2012 08:30 AM Defining Courtship and Dating (Via focus on the family boundless) http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001196.cfm "Let's begin by defining courtship. Courtship ordinarily begins when a single man approaches a single woman by going through the woman's father, and then conducts his relationship with the woman under the authority of her father, family, or church, whichever is most appropriate. Courtship always has marriage as its direct goal. What then is dating? Dating, a more modern approach, begins when either the man or the woman initiates a more- than-friends relationship with the other, and then they conduct that relationship outside of any oversight or authority. Dating may or may not have marriage as its goal." Post Reply
Athena28 View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 8 Jul, 2012 12:55 PM jz4, Nice definition Post Reply
View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 11 Jul, 2012 12:18 PM Please forgive my foray into this thread about the concept of courtship, to express a few thoughts about One who should be the object of a ceaseless courtship. I find Athena28 to be stunningly interesting. I'm inclined to believe everything in her profile, and to believe that she is even more wonderful than her profile indicates. A marriage proposal and permanent honeymoon of service and ministry seem the best possible outcomes of being brought within range of her gravitas. I've found that celestial phenomena are also symbols that Christ has provided to depict aspects of spiritual reality. Christ has the power to create women that dwarf stars. There are supernova among us, one of whom parts her hair in the middle and stoops to conquer galaxies. Does she realize the powers that she embodies? Or is it another task of my sojourn through this Earth to let her know? The powers are there and made manifest through her, whether or not any mortal can perceive them, and I know with every fiber of my being that those among the Heavenly Host can peer down into this realm, view her and glorify God for her. I'd regret not acknowledging that Athenic power, so here I do. Certain things matter, others do not. Availing of an opportunity to give thanks for something so wonderful seems to matter, and few things seem to matter nearly as much. You need not meet a person to know that you Agape love them, and to feel a heart's pang to commune. I've learned that we lack the language to express certain things that we can recognize in our souls. We should give thanks for any reminder of this truth, because it is truth and because it is wonderful. Wonders of love, power and eternity. Father thank you for Athena. Please continue to richly bless her sojourn on the way home to You and on into eternity. Remind her, and remind us all, that she IS a Reminder of the fact that your Glory and your eternal kingdom outshine anything on this side of eternity, like a star engulfing a lit twig. Post Reply
OhZone View Profile History	Dating vs Courting? Posted : 1 Sep, 2012 08:16 PM I was raised that you don't date a person who isn't someone you think has possibilities as a spouse. The old saying was, "every date is a potential mate." So, for me, what you describe here, dating vs. courting, is merely semantics, since I guess all my dating all my life has been with the goal of finding a spouse. However, I get that not everyone was raised the same way, so it's good to have a definition. Thank you. O3 Post Reply