I read the
Fireproof Your Marriage entry on revelife's xanga site. I ended up looking at the trailer and a part of it said "How far would you go/to keep a promise?" Seeing that the movie was about a married couple, I assumed it was about marriage as a promise and surmise as thus:
1. Marriage is a promise. It's a promise made under God-- He as the ultimate witness-- and to Him and to the spouse. Then, should a married couple not keep it? Which leads to the next point:
2. Let's say that somehow, you now think that you had all the wrong assumptions about your spouse when you said your vows, thus making a promise on false or misinformed premises. Then would you break that promise? In other words, is a promise-- ANY promise-- that was made before you "had all the facts" or that is simply too "hard" or "impossible" to keep worth keeping?
On one hand you have the people who say that a promise is a promise no matter what-- when you make a promise, not only do you tie your honor on the line, but you also whisper a sense of guarantee and an "I'll do this for you" into the other's ear. To break that promise would be to unstabilize the other person. Christians can probably say that God understands and even if you made the most ridiculous promise but you either a) still want to do something for that person, but you don't know how (i.e, as a young lad, "I'll buy you a diamond ring!" and the girl's still waiting, yet renting a house let alone buying a ring is out of the question: perhaps seek for God's understanding?), or b) made the most dangerous promise ever; then if you kneeled and prayed before God with true ernestness, then He would listen to you and fix it for you.
On the other hand you have the people who say that a bad promise is not worth keeping. Besides, if both parties don't like the promise anymore (i.e. in case of a mutually agreed-to divorce), then is it worth keeping, really?
I guess it all boils down to this: what is a bad promise? Does a bad promise even exist? Is a bad promise, or something like that, worth breaking?
Is marriage an exception, or is it a promise that applies to the responses you might come up with to the questions stated above?
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