Question:
Are there any examples in Scripture of dating?
Answer:
Both Jacob and Rachel, and Isaac and Rebekah found each other at a well. Many Biblical wives are first seen doing domestic things.
Samson is a picture of a Christian who “loved a woman” (Judges 16:4) who was not one of the Lord’s people, and who did not want to please the Lord. This union cost Samson his eyes, and eventually his life.Even if a Christian marries a Christian “in the Lord,” we are told that “Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh” (1 Corinthians 7:28). (Not in the Spirit, though.) A husband and wife may find that they have differences as to how to squeeze the toothpaste, or mount the toilet paper roll. Man and woman are made very differently by the Creator, but God joins them together into “one flesh” (Matthew 19:5, 6), and wants to direct them so that together they can represent Himself. For God is made up of three Divine Persons who have the same purpose and function beautifully together (Genesis 1:26, 27).