Don't Make a Muddy Mess?

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Dry land loses its character when mixed with water. The moment water is added to it, mud results. It is just as impossible to build a lasting foundation on mud as it is to build it on water. Do not try to mix the holy divine standards of God's Word (dry ground) with the filthy, defiled standards of the world (water). You'll just end up with a muddy mess! The two can't mix any better or with any better results than trying to put "new wine into old bottles" (Matt. 9:1717Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:17)).
Don't try to attach your definitions to what God has already named "dry land" and "water". His thoughts are infinitely higher than yours (Isa. 55:8, 98For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8‑9)). Sometimes, when believers get caught up in the spirit of the world, they are tempted to modernize or give a different name to God's principles. For instance, the world calls an unmarried man and woman who live together "cohabiting" or having a "significant other" or making a "commitment of love".
But God calls having sex outside of marriage sin-fornication.
Trying to mix the world's moral standards of romance with God's holy, pure standards brings disaster. Be very careful of creating moral mud in your courtship! And remember that what God creates and names is good. Changing His standards to conform to the world's will only get you in a "sticky mess"! "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" (2 Cor. 6:1414Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)).