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I think a young lady in our teen youth program said it best:
Fornication is adultry committed against your future spouse.
It sure is. Although it's history and I am forgiven by God, I have so many regrets that I did not save myself for my wife. People really have no idea how it affects you in the long run. God is omniscient and knows what's best for us!
It sure is. Although it's history and I am forgiven by God, I have so many regrets that I did not save myself for my wife. People really have no idea how it affects you in the long run. God is omniscient and knows what's best for us!
I really think that we should really try to teach our young ones that sex is not really all what it is cracked up to be. Our bodies was made for God, not for fornicating.
While I totally agree that God designed sex for marriage only, I also see where our country is right now, and where most of the modern world is and I wonder how we can get back to God's ideal? Because, even in the Church sex is not seen for the special gift that it is. Youth leaders and pastors can preach about it, but our teens and people that are not married are still doing it and don't seem all that worried. So I wonder what is it going to take to make sex special again?
Even I have bought into this lie before and I wish that I hadn't, and due to experiences I have learned just how special it should be. Sex should be something fun, loving and special that we do with only our spouse, yet by the time most people my age (mid 20's) realize this it is too late for us to regain and protect our virginity till marriage. I don't have the answer, but I have a lot of questions about how to pass that on to younger people, so that they see that waiting doesn't make them weird or outcasts.
My guess is (so, it's not an absolute) the poll relects our thinking and not our reality.
You mean, what we think is right according to the Word, but not necessarily how we have acted? If so, I would definitely agree with that and originally had the poll set up differently to reflect more personal responses. I felt I was crossing a line though so decided to make it more general. I suppose though at least 1/2 of those who voted for #1 haven't practiced what they preach, and I am guilty of that myself.
My guess is (so, it's not an absolute) the poll relects our thinking and not our reality.
Based on what June has read on these forums as regards "all things sexual" as expressed and posted by Christians , vs. her personal, life experiences thereof, she can only say that she would have to agree.
God doesn't care if you are married or not. His only concern is that you LOVE. I love my boyfriend of 8 years and not even the threat of hell will make me marry him just because a book says it's a sin to live together. What is written in the bible is just someone elses view of what they thought was of God concerning marriage.
Fornication is having a relationship that has no love. This goes for the married and the unmarried.
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so simple
