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I wasn’t sure if I should put this here or in the “Non-Catholic Religions” forum as my friend in question is Evangelical. Here is the situation.
My friend is a successful woman in her late 20’s. Due to financial circumstances she still lives at home. She is an Evangelical Christian, very kind and generous and family oriented. She has been seeing a man for close to a year. He is a very kind, responsible, supportive individual and they are very happy together. He was raised without any religious faith, but is not against it in any way, he just has not had that as part of his life.
The problem lies with my friend’s parents. Not so much her mother, but her father. He is a kind but strict man who is very authoritative with his family. He refuses to let my friend’s significant other in his home and refuses to associate with him because he is not Christian. Recently he blew up at my friend saying he would never give her a marriage blessing if she were to marry a non-Christian and that she is “destroying the family” and should seriously think about moving out (Note: Her siblings couldn’t care less, this is primarily his issue). He claims he is doing as the Bible teaches and threw out some scripture verses (which I can’t recall at the moment) Needless to say she is torn up inside. I have met her significant other and there is nothing about him that would lead me to think he is a bad person or a bad influence.
As a friend I want to be supportive but not intrusive. I know it’s not going to be possible to change her father but I hate to see a friend in pain and I hate seeing when someone uses Scripture as a reason to cause someone pain.
My friend is a successful woman in her late 20’s. Due to financial circumstances she still lives at home. She is an Evangelical Christian, very kind and generous and family oriented. She has been seeing a man for close to a year. He is a very kind, responsible, supportive individual and they are very happy together. He was raised without any religious faith, but is not against it in any way, he just has not had that as part of his life.
The problem lies with my friend’s parents. Not so much her mother, but her father. He is a kind but strict man who is very authoritative with his family. He refuses to let my friend’s significant other in his home and refuses to associate with him because he is not Christian. Recently he blew up at my friend saying he would never give her a marriage blessing if she were to marry a non-Christian and that she is “destroying the family” and should seriously think about moving out (Note: Her siblings couldn’t care less, this is primarily his issue). He claims he is doing as the Bible teaches and threw out some scripture verses (which I can’t recall at the moment) Needless to say she is torn up inside. I have met her significant other and there is nothing about him that would lead me to think he is a bad person or a bad influence.
As a friend I want to be supportive but not intrusive. I know it’s not going to be possible to change her father but I hate to see a friend in pain and I hate seeing when someone uses Scripture as a reason to cause someone pain.
