Difference Between Biblical Dating and Modern Dating

What are the differences between modern dating and biblical dating?

Did you know that you were not created to live this life alone? God intends you to grow to love another person of the opposite sex that will be your complement. He designed the two of you to fit perfectly together physically, spiritually and emotionally like pieces of a puzzle. It is easy to see why God has not given the ability to be content to very many singles.

Genesis 2:18, tells us it is "not good for man to be alone." The Hebrew word translated "alone" better translates into a phrase that means something like, "incomplete" or "part of something greater." God wants each and every one of you, as singles, to be part of something greater, to be part of someone else.

This suggests that, in a way, God created Eve to help finish and complete Adam. The creation was not finalized until both man and woman were together. Eve completed Adam just as Adam completed Eve. No one wants to be alone because God designed us to live with others. It is natural for us to feel lonely, if we are not with others.

As human beings, we desire relationships with others. God created us as social beings. "And the LORD God said, 'It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him'". Then God instituted marriage in Genesis 2:24. God wants men and women to develop relationships leading to marriage.

That is how humans were designed, except for a very few who have been specially gifted to live a permanent single life. God put within us the longing for that completeness and that longing leads us into dating and courtship. However, dating can be deceptive.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy..." (Ephesians 5:25-26)

Furthering this understanding, Ephesians 5:21-24 says, “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is...