A Pentecostal Girl
A Pentecostal Girl
Question
An Orthodox young man sent us this question:
I love a Pentecostal girl, and I want to take her as my wife. What should I do, knowing that I am Orthodox and committed to my doctrine?
Answer
The only solution is to make her Orthodox first.
Or, in other words, to return her to the Orthodoxy in which her family had previously lived. For all Pentecostals in Egypt were formerly Orthodox. If her father was not Orthodox, then at least her grandfather or great-grandfather was…
By making her Orthodox, I do not mean a merely formal affiliation.
Rather, she should become Orthodox through faith and conviction. Otherwise, if you marry through a merely formal affiliation, your children will later become confused between the father’s doctrine and the mother’s doctrine, if this girl’s thinking remains Pentecostal despite her formal affiliation with Orthodoxy.
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