{"id":4077,"date":"2018-02-01T18:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubfriends.net\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2018-02-09T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T23:35:09","slug":"ubf-break-up-policy-vs-1-corinthians-7-and-deuteronomy-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/ubf-break-up-policy-vs-1-corinthians-7-and-deuteronomy-22\/","title":{"rendered":"UBF break up policy vs 1 Corinthians 7 and Deuteronomy 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a woman I saw give a testimony in front of a large audience at UBF. \u00a0I am pretty sure the testimony was filtered by UBF members to ensure it was OK to say by UBF standards and I am pretty sure she was in line with standard operating procedure at the time.<\/p>\n<p>She said she prayed for her Bible student to break up with her boyfriend. \u00a0I want to address if Bible teachers should be encouraging people to break up with their boyfriend or girlfriend, encouraging them to marry or being neutral. \u00a0I suggest that encouraging them to marry and being neutral can be supported but not encouraging them to break up. \u00a0When I say encourage to marry I am not talking about forced marriage, but suggesting marriage as an option.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sensitive topic as it deals with the common practice of Bible students having physical relations with other people outside of marriage so to read the full article go here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/ubf-dating-break-up-policy-vs.html#more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/ubf-dating-break-up-policy-vs.html#more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com\">https:\/\/marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a woman I saw give a testimony in front of a large audience at UBF. \u00a0I am pretty sure the testimony was filtered by UBF members to ensure it was OK to say by UBF standards and I am pretty sure she was in line with standard operating procedure at the time. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,118,1,124,141,11,127,15,10,122,150,151,143,126],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","category-advice","category-article","category-cults","category-info","category-love","category-marriage","category-preaching","category-reform","category-scripture","category-sermon","category-spiritual-abuse","category-testimony","category-theology","tag-marriage-by-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}