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Why courtship is fundamentally flawed

 

Image accessed on 2018 February 9 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dates_on_date_palm.jpg

There was much talk of courtship being ok but dating being bad at my Chapter shortly before I leftI.  Ironically someone was rebuked for finding a girlfriend even though they told me courting was ok.  They were into I kissed dating goodbye, by Joshua Harris and said Billy Graham courted his wife.  Here is a good article about what is wrong with courtship by someone else.  And another two articles about the author of the book repenting that is having a change of mind.

Why Courtship is Fundamentally Flawed

“http://www.thomasumstattd.com/2014/08/courtship-fundamentally-flawed/”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/abstinence-author-pastor-joshua-harris-apologizes-for-telling-christians-not-to-date-in-i-kissed-dating-goodbye-168650/

https://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/485432485/former-evangelical-pastor-rethinks-his-approach-to-courtshipI

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Kissed_Dating_Goodby

What is wrong with UBF private revelation about marriage

20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things.21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+peter+1&version=NIV

Accessed online on 2018 February 2

I put up a old article I wrote years ago (but never before published) on what is wrong with using private revelation to determine a marriage partner and yet simultaneously claiming to use the Bible as a guide on my blog, the link is below.  It is very thorough and a worthwhile read for using the Bible to contradict the marriage by faith doctrine.

 

https://marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com/2018/02/what-is-wrong-with-ubf-private.html

UBF break up policy vs 1 Corinthians 7 and Deuteronomy 22

There was a woman I saw give a testimony in front of a large audience at UBF.  I 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 said she prayed for her Bible student to break up with her boyfriend.  I 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.  I suggest that encouraging them to marry and being neutral can be supported but not encouraging them to break up.  When I say encourage to marry I am not talking about forced marriage, but suggesting marriage as an option.

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

https://marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com/2018/02/ubf-dating-break-up-policy-vs.html#more

https://marriagebyfaith.blogspot.com