Should I be with a man who already has a child? What does the Bible say about men leaving the mother of their child to be with the women he loves? Is it a sin for me to be with a man who has a child?<\/p>\n\t
You are asking the wrong questions. The proper questions are: Is he a married man? If he was married, then the question is why did his marriage end?<\/p>\n
If he wasn’t married, are you talking about being with him as marrying him? Or are you just interested in having sex with this man?<\/p>\n
The problem is that you are leaving marriage completely out of your question. “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge<\/em>” (Hebrews 13:4). Without marriage being in this equation, all answers are that it is wrong.<\/p>\n Whether a person has a child or not does not alter the answers, but you should consider what it tells you about a man’s character before marrying him.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Should I be with a man who already has a child? What does the Bible say about men leaving the mother of their child to be with the women he loves? Is it a sin for me to be with a man who has a child? Answer: You are asking the wrong questions. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-38920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-dating"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42599,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-it-adultery-to-marry-a-guy-who-has-a-child-but-was-never-married\/","url_meta":{"origin":38920,"position":0},"title":"Is it adultery to marry a guy who has a child but was never married?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hi, I am talking to a guy who has never been married but is a single father, having a child from a previous relationship. 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