Posted on 05/03/2013 1:52:23 PM PDT by NYer
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Kind of like planned children, I’ve heard 60-70% of children are unplanned, I suspect it is a lot higher though, kind of like 90% of men will admit they wank off, why 10% of men lie about it.
Actually, it is the effects of Original Sin.
/johnny
Hmmm... wouldn't they all be "practicing", since they believe they've been "born again" and "saved" and now "have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ"? These aren't mainline protestants or Catholics they're surveying.
Yes the urges come from original sin. My point was sitting back and arguing that religious people are having sex is missing the point. When people immature in their faith (or walk with Christ) hear that topic they perceive it as condemnation of them. It pushes them further away from God because they don’t understand the context.
In todays world abstinence is abnormal and many people of both sexes wouldn’t date someone who didn’t have sex until marriage. At least according to my single friends.
If you spread the word on the hard rocky ground it won’t grow.
That would be even more interesting. It wouldn't be quite such a partisan gotcha post, though.
Single, celibate, and sane here. Watch who you call abnormal. ;)
/johnny
That’s the fallen human nature.
It’s too bad though, because doing what you’re supposed to is really fun. lol
I'm glad to see it made clear that the party taking the survey defines their own terms and depending on what definitions they use can basically get any result they want.
Marriage at 28 is ahistorical and represents a burden for most. Not to mention the effects on the next generation.
In this case abnormal is good. Sane however might be a stretch there. :)
Tim Tebow was probably desired all the more because he made it clear he is a man of principle and purity. I think a woman wants to know that a man would honor her by giving her what he would give nobody else. Then it means something. And it’s probably the same for a man.
It’s good for spouses to not have to battle memories and comparisons. There are enough tough things to work through without that added burden. The most important sex organ in the body is the brain. Injuring or mis-programming it can be about as damaging as whacking off the other parts. There is forgiveness and new beginnings are possible but it’s a tougher road, I think. A wedding ring doesn’t magically change the tendencies and thought processes of a lifetime.
If the Lord wills (and if you’re interested. lol), you’ll have a heckuva lot to offer the wonderful woman He provides for you. =)
I’m a baptist. For a short time, we attended a Southern Baptist church locally. Our teen daughter went to their high school Bible study. About a month later, the couple teaching the Bible study asked us to pull our daughter for being insensitive.
Seems they were discussing premarital sex (and apparently that was a topic most of the time), and our daughter asked insensitive questions like, “What is so hard about saying no?”, or, “God’s opinion is pretty clear, isn’t it?” She even said “If the boy REALLY loved you, he would want you to wait!”
It seems those ideas were too judgmental, and indicated she didn’t understand how overpowering the sexual urge was.
We decided their brand of morality differed too much from ours, and found a baptist church (also SBC, incidentally) a few miles in a different direction.
Again, IMHO.
/johnny
But giving a woman that hates me a house because I can't control my emotions/hormones is certainly not sane behavior.
I make better decisions with the head on my shoulders. ;)
/johnny
Interesting.
Christ said, “I am the truth” not I am the custom.
Follow the Bible, not the modernisn heresy.
Thanks for your preachy response, perhaps you can read and understand the message before judging.
lol. Sounds like you’ve learned to appreciate some aspects of the single life. Contentment is a wonderful place to be.
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