PersOn?" My RespOnse Was A ResOunding NO. AbsOlutely NOt! Yet There
Are Many Christians WhO Believe That GOD Has A SpOuse FOr Each PersOn.
ROmance NOvels And SOngs Like "I WOnder What GOD Was Thinking When He
Created YOu" All COntribute To This NOtiOn.
PersOnally I Am Disinclined TO Accept This View Primarily Because
There Is NOt A Shred Of Evidence FOr It FrOm Scripture. In Fact, There
Is Much Evidence FrOm Scripture FOr The OppOsing View, That We Must Go
Out And Find Ourselves A SpOuse.
NOw This Is By No Means False DOctrine. No One's GOing To Burn In Hell
FOr Believing That GOD Has A Perfect SpOuse FOr Them. But It May Keep
Them Single All Their Life. I've Seen It. A YOung Lady Keeps Turning
DOwn POtential Husbands Because She Has NOt "Heard FrOm GOD" Or
SOmeOne TOld Her "He Is NOt GOD'S Will FOr YOu". Years Go By And She's
NOt So YOung AnymOre, And Still Waiting FOr GOD To "Bring SOmeOne Into
Her Life". Ofcourse, There Is NOthing WrOng With Remaining Single- If
That Is What One Wants, HOwever, If One Is Interested In Being
Married, I WOuld Like To Dispel The Myth That GOD Has A SpOuse
Prepared FOr Each PersOn.
BIBLICAL PRECEDENT!!!
Adam Was The Only PersOn Who Ever Just WOke Up And Saw The Perfect
WOman Next To Him. GOd Has NOt DOne That FOr AnyOne Else. The Bible
Uses Language Like "Abraham Took A Wife", "Judah Took A Wife". There
Is No RecOrd In The Bible, New Or Old Testament, Of AnyOne Sitting On
Their Butt Expecting GOD To Send That Perfect PersOn In Their Life.
The Precedent That The Bible Sets Is That Of Men GOing Out And Finding
Wives.
There Are Only Two ExceptiOns- HOsea And JOseph. GOD TOld HOsea To
Marry GOmer, And JOseph To Marry Mary. The First Was Because Hd Wanted
To Get A POint AcrOss To Israel, The SecOnd To Facilitate His Plan Of
RedemptiOn. These Are ExceptiOnal Cases, NOt The NOrm. This Is NOT HOw
GOd NOrmally WOrks COncerning Marriage.
GOD DOES NOT HAVE AN ORDAINED SPOUSE!!!
There Are Other ReasOns Why I DOn't Believe GOd Has A SpOuse Prepared
FOr Each Of Us. FOr One, It Makes No LOgical Sense. Think AbOut It.
SuppOse GOd Predestined That Person A Will Marry PersOn B, And SuppOse
PersOn A Marries SOmeOne Else Or Never Gets Saved. Then What Is Person
B Supposed To Do? Marry Outside Of "GOd's Will"?
SecOndly, SuppOse Things Did In Fact WOrk Out FOr PersOns A And B, And
They GOt Married, Lived Happily Ever After. Then PersOn B Dies. Is
PersOn A AllOwed To Remarry? AccOrding To The Bible, Yes. But
AccOrding To The View That GOd Has A SpOuse Prepared FOr Each One, NO.
Who Is PersOn A GOing To Remarry? GOd's Perfect SpOuse FOr Her Already
Died. DOes GOD Have Two Spouses Prepared FOr Her?
Thirdly, Why Didn't Paul Get Married? He Said That He COuld Have If He
Wanted To, But ChOse NOt To (1 COr 9:5). NOw It's Either GOd Had A
Wife Prepared FOr Paul, And Paul Was NOt CO-Operating By Choosing To
Remain Single. Or It Was GOd's Will FOr Paul To Remain Single, In
Which Case Paul Had No Right, Writing Under The InspiratiOn Of ThE
HOly Spirit, To Say That He COuld Have Taken A Wife If He Wanted To.
Which Is It? But There Is A Third OptiOn. GOd Had No Wife Prepared FOr
Paul, But Instead Gave Paul The Liberty And The WisdOm To Choose
Whether Or NOt He Wanted Marry. Paul Decided That Given His Ministry -
Traveling All The Time And The POssibility Of ßeing Killed At Any
MOment- It Was Better To Remain Single.
FOurthly, Paul Seems To Teach That Whether SOmeOne Marries Is A Matter
Of Circumstance Rather Than Design. In 1cor. 7, He DiscOurages YOung
PeOple FrOm Marrying Because Of The "present Distress" . In 1 Tim. 5,
On The Other Hand, He EncOurages The YOung WidOws To Remarry, Again
Because Of Individual Circumstances. Never In His DiscussiOn, Was
There Any Hint That GOd May Have A FOre- Ordained Plan COncerning
Marriage And We Need To Get In Tune With It.
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