Are you likely to keep the marriage if your husband has become a Baptist?

QUESTION:

If in a couple only he is in the Baptist religion and she is not, is it possible to be together even after marriage? And if she wants to be in that faith, and her family is against it, what should she do? Thank you for the answer.

THE ANSWER:

It is not clear to me from the way you asked the question whether you are married or not. If you are already married and your husband has become a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, attaching himself to an evangelical church, such as the Baptist Church, and if you want to keep the family, it is good to stay married, for it is written:

“But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. And if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.  Yet if the unbelieving one is leaving, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.  For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?” (2 Corinthians 7:12-16 NASB)

If you are not yet married and one of you does not want to follow the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, the other will not be able to enter into this marriage, because the Christian can marry only in the Lord, that is, only with a person who is part of the New Covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ and who is born again. 

Translated by Aliona Soltan