Don’t Look to MSN For Biblical Interpretation

MSN put this article on its front page:

 “Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?”

With admonishments like this from Second Corinthians 6:14, you might think you’re doomed if you date someone outside your faith. But taken less literally, this Bible verse actually could be read as advising you against dating people who have no faith, rather than a different one.

The problem is that unless you come to the verse with an agenda, there’s not really another way to take it. There was not another way to take it, as there was not a crush of Atheists. Indeed, if as the article goes on to suggest, the most important thing is spirtiuality, than Christ’s coming and incarnation can be best categorized as a waste of time, energy, and suffering as spiritually has abounded the world over.

Quite telling too is that the article fails to mention the 3-times higher divorce rate of interfaith relationships. Certainly, people should be free to enter any relationship they choose, but inter-faith relationships are far more dicier than this relationship columnist acknowledges and scripture warns against them quite clearly.