This resurrection was brought to you by Gods way.
Posted on 06/15/2003 10:39:14 AM PDT by Mister Magoo
The Irish did!!!
"That is your opinion of course, but the truth of God's word would claim that you are an adulterer."
Notice that I also did not call her an adulteress but was merely responding to her hypothetical living arrangement.
Matt 5:27-32
27 "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
31 "It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
(from New International Version)
Matt 15:16-20
16 "Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them. 17 "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"
(from New International Version)
Mark 7:20-23
20 He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' 21 For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'"
(from New International Version)
John 8:1-11
8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11 "No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
(from New International Version)
Lisa Kudrow is a successful actress. She stayed a virgin until she got married at 31. But according to your relatively promiscuous standards, she's probably has some mental problem because she refused to have sex until she got married. I'll leave it to you to explain what that is.
"I dated a very intelligent woman, an attorney, who was OK with celibacy," Washington said. "But after six months, she wanted me to make a commitment. She felt if she knew we were going to marry then she could abstain. I couldn't make that promise."
I'm taking it that the guy expects his women to be celibate too, but he's not giving them any reason to be celibate for him at least. Most people who advovate celibacy are marriage minded.
Passage of time doesn't eradicate the wisdom of God's commands (the commands at point in this issue are not to commit adultery or fornication).
"We have to stop using each other,' he said."
Just wanted to reprise the wisdom.
In a way, it's worse, because the prostitute is at least getting something in return for opening her legs.
Comfort leads to excess.
I could see why you or others find a problem with that statement. The way I see it is that this guy wants to wait for marriage and yet he wants to "date" anyone until the right person comes along. He should go all out and pursue a courtship model which is more in line with his convictions rather than the "dating" model which is more attuned to the modern casual relationship, otherwise he is sending these ladies mixed messages.
I commented on this thread 2 years ago and since it is resurrected again, I'll give it a bump. B-)
Wow! You really did some digging to resurrect this old thread, didn't you? Welcome to FR.
Any luck so far? Welcome to FR.
Nobody did anything wrong. He didn't make a committment -- and the fault really may have been her's we don't known -- and she left him, which she is a allowed to do.
If he did make a committment then dumped her, that would have been cruel.
Courtship model in the deeply evangelical Christian world = same as dating, except there's no kissing and you're never alone together... even throughout the engagement period. Two of my cousins used this model & had their first kiss at the wedding altar.
Huh?
Oh, I see what happened. The Resurrector of Dead Threads has returned.
Give me a minute, I gotta go back in time about two years so I can remember what this old thread was about, what I said, and who I wuz arguin' with about what...
God spoke to each of us separately about His plan for us and the romantic aspect of our love grew out of that deep friendship. We never officially dated but once we "knew" that we were meant to be together, we set a date and that was that.
There is a book that explores the courtship model in-depth though I haven't read it myself. It is called "I Kissed Dating Goodbye".
The bottom line (and many believers probably won't like this answer) is that a Christian should be totally consumed with pursuing the Lord and not a marriage partner. When one is walking in that kind of devotion and submission to the Lord, God will or will not bring whomever He chooses or chooses not to. The question is: Do we really trust Him and His plan for our lives or are we going to try to create our own happiness? I would choose to be in God's perfect will no matter the cost even if it meant living out my days as a single missionary in Calcutta rather than married to the most beautiful woman in the world. If that is not our sole purpose in life, then the desire for a spouse (or even a child) is just a form of idolatry.
1 Cor 7:1-2
7:1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. 2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
1 Cor 7:6-9
6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
8 Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Cor 7:24-40
25 Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. 26 Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are. 27 Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
29 What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none; 30 those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; 31 those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
32 I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs-how he can please the Lord. 33 But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world-how he can please his wife- 34 and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world-how she can please her husband. 35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.
36 If anyone thinks he is acting improperly toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if she is getting along in years and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. 37 But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin-this man also does the right thing. 38 So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does even better.
39 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. 40 In my judgment, she is happier if she stays as she is-and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
(from New International Version)
This resurrection was brought to you by Gods way.
Sorry. He's got me too, before:-)
It worked for me. I married a freeper last July.
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense." --Robert A. Heinlein
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