Do you think Christ was the model for man in that sense? I don’t see it that way.
He was the sacrificial lamb.
He couldn’t get married and have children. Imagine the idea of having His decedents on earth. Imagine His wife and the burden on her, not a perfect being.
I would submit that when it comes to marriage, Christ would support men and women looking to other models, except in the sense he was faithful to God, as a man and a woman should be to each other, and of course God as well.
He didn’t intend for men and women to remain celibate. We were admonished to become fruitful and multiply.
I’m not trying to pick a fight with religions that believe in celibacy. I do think it leads to problems. It’s not man or a woman’s nature here on earth to remain celibate.
These are my views, and I’m not seeking to say that anyone who does this is committing a sin. I’m just saying that from all the evidence, men and women were designed to develop relationships and be joined.
I’m not going to take someone to task who has been led to believe differently.
I may have come on a bit harsh in my comment, but I do believe God gave us the gift of socialization. We are different for a reason. We compliment each other.
There is one thing worse than not being a virgin when you get married. Dying one. If people think God approves of that, I’ve got news for them. So you imply that is it worse to be a virgin at death than to commit fornication.
Wow! How unlike our pure savior, higher than the heavens, who hated sin so intensely - fornication included - that he was willing to sacrifice himself in order to destroy the power of sin.
By his life and example, the apostle Paul apparently didn't agree with you. I think I regard Paul's judgment more than I respect yours.
Hebrews 7 21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) 22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. 28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. 1 ¶ Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.