Marriage: What Christians Should Know

This response was written by my husband, Ronnie. Follows along with much of what I have been thinking for over 50 years. I have been married for a little over 29 years. Not sure if I followed this advice totally as we submitted a personally written "Certificate of Marriage" to the County Clerk where we married and purposely did NOT get a State issued Marriage License. I believe what we did was the same as a Common Law marriage, at least that was our intent. We wanted Christ to ALONE be the Head of our home.

I agree with this. I married and was abused my whole marriage. I left but it took me so long to figure out why this marriage did not work. Becayse God was not the center the want to forfill my parents "need" to be married "legally forced me to marry a man that we well i could never love. But here is my question. If i now know what it means to be Biblically married and i left that man because of the abuse. Will i be cursed for life if i dont get a divorce? I met a christain man. We have been together for 7 years now. He want fo get "married and i refuse. I believe that God has brought us together for a reason. We publically announce we r husband and wife. Am i sinning? My heart says no but am i justifying it? Reasoning with my flesh? I had no clue what i was doing but now that my eyes are open i dont k what to do.

As title. Lets state something that is meant to be "lower" than God's law - Ain't we meant to place basic respect on people's choice? (Calling one Pagan, bad, or the spouse's choice against their religion as to restrict them is NOT respect) One's ideal is not always a favor of the others. Every human matters so long as they do not step on other people's borders. I wish the general Christians can get something basic to the earth as that. Otherwise if even the satanist got a better victory at the end of the world than the average christian, I will be the one who laughs at the back. The destruction of Christianity then, would entirely be their fault instead. Not for not obeying the commandments, but their own arrogance towards others non alike.