Do common religious beliefs contribute to marital success?

[Trailblazer]

Don't know how it is done in the Bahai faith, as JW in my opinion are some of the most devoted people to their religion out there, at least from my limited knowledge.

Baha'is are also devoted to their religion but I don't think the Baha'is have any set procedures as far as families are concerned, like the JWs. I know they have children's classes but I don't think children are forced to attend. There are no set requirements that I know of. I think it is up to the parents and children whether or not the children attend. Incidentally, I heard that many Christians send their children to Baha'i children's classes.

 

[Tinker Grey]

I apologize for not reading through the thread. I'd say: Having common religious beliefs removes a potential impediment. That is, it doesn't so much contribute as fail to inhibit.

 

[Truthseeker]

Not that you will ever move, but I guess you did not think about what could happen in the future when you paid for those graves in your local area.

I never said I would never move. Now that I've thought of it perhaps I could move to Washington with Michael. You have loads of money, you could pay for all of our graves in Washington, yours, Michaels and mine. Of course there is the difficulty of feeling I betrayed Sara by being buried in Washington instead of next to her. I'm serious about this, I'm not joking. If Sara would die, I wouldn't want to be alone without someone close to me. There is no one here that fits that description, only someone who lives in Olympia, Washington.

Why should people be separated from their beloved spouses just because of a stupid law? It would not bother you to be buried different state from where Sara is buried after being married to her for 40 years and counting?

It would bother me.

My mother wanted to be buried with my father but he was buried in Rochester, NY and she died in Port Angeles, WA, so she was buried in Port Angeles. I probably won't move, but if I moved from here and died in another state I am still going to be buried in the National Cemetery in Kent with my husband, as I want to be with him, and that is all paid for by the VA. If the LSA doesn't like it they can put me in Baha'i jail.

I have no idea what would happen if I would be flown back to Ohio. The Baha'i administration couldn't take any action against me as I would be dead! What God would think is another thing. I know a woman who was embalmed here who was a Baha'i. Did she spend the rest of eternity in hell? Heck no! Might be a good idea, and Michael could be flown back here to spend the rest of his life here.

 

[Trailblazer]

I never said I would never move. Now that I've thought of it perhaps I could move to Washington with Michael. You have loads of money, you could pay for all of our graves in Washington, yours, Michaels and mine. Of course there is the difficulty of feeling I betrayed Sara by being buried in Washington instead of next to her. I'm serious about this, I'm not joking. If Sara would die, I wouldn't want to be alone without someone close to me. There is no one here that fits that description, only someone who lives in Olympia, Washington.

Thanks for the kind sentiments but I would cross that bridge if and when you come to it. Sara is younger than you so she probably won't die first, not unless she has some serious health problems. I am here if you need me but at least you have some Baha'is you know and can socialize with even though you are not close to them. I don't even have that. Lewis left me high and dry and he didn't care, he just wanted out of this world and now so do I. It is only the cats that keep me going and give me a reason to live, because I am no good for anyone or anything else.

It would bother me.

My mother wanted to be buried with my father but he was buried in Rochester, NY and she died in Port Angeles, WA, so she was buried in Port Angeles. I probably won't move, but if I moved from here and died in another state I am still going to be buried in the National Cemetery in Kent with my husband, as I want to be with him, and that is all paid for by the VA. If the LSA doesn't like it they can put me in Baha'i jail.

I have no idea what would happen if I would be flown back to Ohio. The Baha'i administration couldn't take any action against me as I would be dead! What God would think is another thing. I know a woman who was embalmed here who was a Baha'i. Did she spend the rest of eternity in hell? Heck no! Might be a good idea, and Michael could be flown back here to spend the rest of his life here.

Well, I am glad to see that you haven't completely lost your senses! I don't think God cares and I cannot see being punished for that. The only way I think that the Baha'i administration might be involved is that they could refuse to be involved in a burial if it was not according to the Law. That is a good hypothetical question to post on Reddit.

 

[Truthseeker]

Sara is younger than you so she probably won't die first, not unless she has some serious health problems.

She does have health problems. I am healthier than she is. She is too overweight, which leads to death. I went out with her the other day, and she needed two canes to get down from the second floor safely putting her two feet on the same step before moving on to the next step. She has periodic pains in her body she thinks because of her diabetes (which her overweight issue helps make worse). i can say this in her favor. She has just started to get really serious about losing weight, using a way to use weight she used to lose weight before she married me. She has this problem that looks like Parkinson's, but hasn't been diagnosed that way.

There is no immediate cause of concern, however. It would be years before she dies. I'm healthy it seems, however. I'm not scared that she will die soon right now.

I just think the odds are a little in my favor of living longer. This is all hypothetical I realize.

 

[Trailblazer]

She does have health problems. I am healthier than she is. She is too overweight, which leads to death. I went out with her the other day, and she needed two canes to get down from the second floor safely putting her two feet on the same step before moving on to the next step. She has periodic pains in her body she thinks because of her diabetes (which her overweight issue helps make worse). i can say this in her favor. She has just started to get really serious about losing weight, using a way to use weight she used to lose weight before she married me. She has this problem that looks like Parkinson's, but hasn't been diagnosed that way.

There is no immediate cause of concern, however. It would be years before she dies. I'm healthy it seems, however. I'm not scared that she will die soon right now.

I just think the odds are a little in my favor of living longer. This is all hypothetical I realize.

Those are causes for concern. Lewis was much older than Sara and he did not have any serious health problems till the cancer.
If the small bladder tumor had been removed when it was found he would probably still be here. I am going to get to the common of this.
I always hoped he would outlive me even though he was 10 years older since I had high blood pressure and a high heart rate in spite of the two hours of exercise I do every day, and he always had low blood pressure and a low heart rate.

 

[syo]

Yes.

 

[Monty]

All practicing homosexuals will end up in hell.

So why didn't Jesus say anything at all about homosexuality?
And why didn't he cleave to a wife instead of loving a particular disciple who laid on his breast - and was that why he asked his followers to accept that some men don't marry because they are so born from their mother's womb (Matt 19:12)?

 

[Monty]

Romans 1 specifically talks about homosexuality in the New Testament.

But the bible says nothing at all about female homosexuality, and Romans 1:26-27 only describes what the men were doing with their women, which Paul described as vile and unseemly and not the natural use of their women, and how they were also receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

 

[Monty]

Practising homosexuals will not go to heaven even if they are lucky enough to get married in some church. Historically, it is written in the Bible about Sodom and Gomorrah even if you or anyone else go around falsely preaching it never happened. Homosexuals, wanting to be part of the church, should be aware of the verses in the Bible against homosexual practice and not want to undermine God’s Word. There is no evidence today what causes homosexuality so no knowledge today. I obey all of the Bible.

The stories in Gen 18 & 19, however, have nothing at all to do with homosexuality and Lot's future sons-in-law wanting to have loving sex with the two blokes Lot picked up down-town, instead of with their future wives. And the only immorality was when Lot sexually assaulted their future wives in a cave, after he first offered them to the other people outside with Lot's sons-in-law, and then mocked his sons-in-law. Perhaps Lot also had sex with the two blokes he picked up.

And the story in Gen 18 describes how Lot's uncle shared a non-kosher meal with a god and had a face to face discussion about the number of righteous children in Gomorrah, and how the god then walked down to count them.