An unusual dillemma
I'm in a position I'm not used to being in right now. Normally when I do manage to find a girl, any religious issue present in the relationship if any is over how I could possibly be a Christian at all and how much nonsense it is. (Yeah, I do pick some real winners 
) This time I stopped looking and trusted in God, and a good beautiful Christian woman just sorta fell into my lap. This one isn't criticizing me for my faith. She's actually trying to make sure we agree. Scary.
We spent hours going through decision theology and have come to the conclusion that our only disagreement really is some semantics and exactly where it is that God's work ends and our own faith begins, and to what extent faith is a gift from God vs being something of ourselves. Now we're into infant baptism. Yay. The major issues now are the role of free will in relation to sinful nature and exactly what baptism is (something ordained by God to create faith, or simply an expression of faith).
I pray that we're able to resolve this issue. Courtney and I haven't been together very long, but we've grown very attached in the short time. Attachment aside, we both agree that we need to come to a better agreement before we get into any serious long-term commitment. Neither of us are really willing to compromise our own faith either. Two very good signs I think. It's just kinda rough making it actually work. Not to mention scary as hell to be having this conversation now. I figured it would be months before we got to that point.
Input is appreciated from theology geeks and non-theology geeks alike.
) This time I stopped looking and trusted in God, and a good beautiful Christian woman just sorta fell into my lap. This one isn't criticizing me for my faith. She's actually trying to make sure we agree. Scary.
We spent hours going through decision theology and have come to the conclusion that our only disagreement really is some semantics and exactly where it is that God's work ends and our own faith begins, and to what extent faith is a gift from God vs being something of ourselves. Now we're into infant baptism. Yay. The major issues now are the role of free will in relation to sinful nature and exactly what baptism is (something ordained by God to create faith, or simply an expression of faith).
I pray that we're able to resolve this issue. Courtney and I haven't been together very long, but we've grown very attached in the short time. Attachment aside, we both agree that we need to come to a better agreement before we get into any serious long-term commitment. Neither of us are really willing to compromise our own faith either. Two very good signs I think. It's just kinda rough making it actually work. Not to mention scary as hell to be having this conversation now. I figured it would be months before we got to that point.
Input is appreciated from theology geeks and non-theology geeks alike.