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Categories: ISLAM, MARRIAGE, RELATIONSHIPS, RELIGIONSIs it a sin for a christian to marry a Muslim?Sincerely,
Inter-Faith Marriage
Dear Inter-Faith Marriage,
‘Inter-faith’ marriages have disastrous results, an awful track record, and God warns against them. The Bible’s most notorious example of this is Solomon. Solomon’s idolatrous wives turned the heart of the wisest man on the planet away from God (1 Kgs 11:4). If Solomon in all of his wisdom couldn’t resist the pull of a false religion, we should consider ourselves just as vulnerable. There is too much at stake. If your heart is turned away from God, your soul will be eternally destroyed (Heb 3:12).
No matter how much they love each other, there are only four possible outcomes for an inter-faith marriage, and only one of them is good:
- The Muslim eventually converts and obeys the gospel, becomes a christian, and is saved (GOOD).
- The christian eventually converts and becomes a Muslim, and they are both lost (BAD).
- They both make compromises in their beliefs, and the christian no longer fully serve the Lord (BAD).
- They both eventually renounce both of their belief systems, and are both lost (BAD).
The only positive outcome is the first one, and that isn’t any more likely to happen after you are married than before. Either the Muslim will eventually convert, or they won’t – getting married won’t increase the odds.
God warns against being ‘unequally yoked’ to someone with different values than you (2 Cor 6:14-16). Once you get married, you are ‘yoked’ to that person with a lifetime agreement. A godly marriage is designed around unity (Gen 2:24). If you aren’t unified on your core belief system, then everything else will be affected. Where will your children go to church/mosque? How much money will you contribute to Islam vs. God’s church? What happens when the Muslim wants to put up Koran writings around the house? These are just a few of the thousands of day-to-day problems you would run into. God tells us that a christian should marry someone ‘in the Lord’ (1 Cor 7:39).
