Mrwiseguy had posted an interesting thread for us ladies and now we do want to READ your opinion on it...
It goes like this:
There is an old Christian movie about this guy who was pretending to be a Christian, just so he could sleep with the Christian girl from his school. He was so good at pretending; he looked up scriptures, asked his Christian friend for information, and even went as far as reading a book about CHRISTIAN LIVING just to impress her.
In real life, if you guys found yourselves in that same position (trust me, they are out there);
Online and/or Offline...
how would you know if she is really a God fearing Woman or not?
Here's hoping you mean the plot with the genders swapped :-). If so, then I'd know by faith. Faith in God, that he would be at work in her; and faith in her, that she would be speaking the truth about her relationship with God.
I agree with LetThisMind - only time will tell. As for...testing her? Where to draw the line? Dunno. I'll sit and listen in this thread awhile, maybe peek at the other one, too.
I do agree that by faith one will found out who the person is, but what about those who were sure?
Those who went as far as being in a relationship with that person?
Marriage with that person?
Doesn't mean that they did not have enough faith, but probably fell, had a weak moment, or a relationship that was heading towards the right direction, but something fell off.
I've been there and it surprised me.
Now, the following verses has been very helpful to me and I would like to know if you believe that it applies to this story and why or why not?
(Genesis 3:1)"Now the serpent was more (astute/crafty/subtil) than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made."
(Matthew 10:16) �I am sending you out like SHEEP AMONGS WOLVES (non-believers). Therefore BE AS SHREWD (clever-smart-sharp-astute-sagacious-acute-sly) AS SNAKES and as innocent as doves."
Faith is only as good as its' object. My faith in whether a chair would hold my weight (say) is different to whether or not the chair can actually hold it. But marriage matters a little more than a broken hip, and that's why I'm watching for answers here.
Is it any fault of a person to place her faith in something unsound, if it appeared otherwise, even to all of her shrewdness? And in the case of a Christian finding out that s/he was deceived into marrying a non-Christian, do they become any less married? I hope those are the right questions to add.
Our perception of good is scewed. Even when we make poor decisions in our imaturity God takes them and turn them into treasures. Does He not?
I have been asked this question by my feancee the other day. She asked why do people who seem so in love before they are married loose that after marriage? Pretty much the same thing you are asking right?
This happens when people dont understand what love is first and it also happens when people dont take time to prove out their relationship together.
What I mean is this. Its not the good things in common that are the evidence of a strong relationship it is the dissagrement times that prove our relationships. It is the times we hurt oneanother and how we work through those times together to bring peace and unity back to the relationship.
Because it is thosetime that prove out if a individual is stuburn or humble. If they know how to listen and empethise or not. If they can ask and give forgiveness. It proves out how they respond with anger.
Their are many well read christians who dont even know how to give simple respect in a request. I have encountered some here. They boast in their knowledge of the scriptures and mean while they lack the Spirit of the very truth they seek to proclaim.
I would say the most important one is complete and utter acceptance in oneanother. Complete love and respect that is given freely and not earned.
You know its great that so many can quote bible verses but do we really know practically how to apply them to our lives?
That is the evidence of a Spirit filled believer vs a letter of the Law believer.
Well,to me,what it comes to seeing if a "Christian Girl" is true a "Genuine Christian Woman" is not WHAT she only knows about the Bible,but rather how she LIVES what she knows what the Bible.
Anyone can know and understand what the Bible says and all,but if you're a true Christian then you must live and also agree with what is written in the Scriptures!
I myself had met a lot of girls who knows what the Bible says about fleeing from fornication,and STILL BELIEVE that The Lord will forgive you after do that outside of marriage. What shocks me is that some of these girls are daughters of Sunday school teachers,elders decons etc and believe in that kind of lifestyle and evn want to twist what the Bible says is to suit them in order to trp you! Seriously,shocked me!
So when I've the movie,it had me like it's a movie,but still,this can still happen in todays world that we live in.......
