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Date Posted: 20:15:13 10/29/04 Fri
Author: rsqarchive
Subject: Re: 7-6-2001 DB on 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1
In reply to: rsqarchive 's message, "7-6-2001 DB on 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1" on 16:40:28 10/29/04 Fri

>Here's what Samuel Lee & Sarah Barry say:
>
>"A yoke is a piece of wood that fits over the neck of
>two oxen, enabling them to pull a load together. If we
>deliberately bind ourselves to a person with worldly
>priorities and values, we cannot please God. If
>one marries a person whose goals in life are
>different from his own, the yoke that should make
>the burden easier makes it unbearably heavy."
>
In case someone missed it due to my poor exposition, Lee and Barry here are going beyond the biblical admonition from verses like 2 Co 6:14-15 that believers ought not to marry unbelievers. Lee and Barry don't even mention, don't even distinguish between believers and unbelievers. In their world, a believer (a UBF member) ought not marry a "person" with "worldly priorities and values" and/or "different goals", and that effectivly rules out a UBF member going outside of UBF to find a believing spouse. And a UBF spouse who "loses their committment" to UBF effectively becomes a worldly person in their eyes, and therefore, eligible to be served with a UBF divorce, contrary to biblical teaching. That's what's dangerous about their teaching from this passage. Their interpretation of these verses fits into their exclusive view, which has been repeatedly expressed in every UBF center throughout UBF history, that Christians outside of UBF are worldly and old wineskins and etc.

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