Ftk
Posts: 2239 Joined: Mar. 2007
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Quote | That religion, particularly Christianity, defines many things as sinful (e.g sex outside marriage) when it's quite good odds that it's going to happen anyway. Very handy I'd say. |
Hmmm...let’s put on our thinking caps and give this a go, shall we?
Let’s consider the pro’s and con’s of having sex before marriage...
Pro - It feels really, really, really, really good.
Con - STD’s, unwanted pregnancy, problems with multiple partners, such as: doing it with so many people that it’s difficult to be content in a monogamous relationship (which leads to the breakup of families). Feelings of being used if one person is in it for fun and the other has deeper feelings. Feelings of jealousy when your prior partner is now getting it on with someone else because she’s done with you. The list goes on and on in regard to our emotions.
Now, according to the Bible, that crazy make believe dude in the sky has made up all these horrible rules to live by. Darn - such a party pooper he is.
Now, could these suggestions from the guy in the sky actually be of some use? If she/he/ET actually did design the human body, chances are he/she/it might actually know a little about the best way for that body to conduct itself without getting hurt. Hence we are provided with suggestions, rules, or whatever you are comfortable calling them.
King David was a favorite of the big guy, though David had many wives. If you’re familiar with biblical history, you’ll find that David’s love life, and his children’s lives, were a mess. Check out the squabbles between Abraham’s wife and his concubine as well. God didn’t turn his back on them because of their error in judgment, but they did suffer due to the fact that people were designed for one man, one woman relationships.
Granted, hormones rage and odds are pretty darn high that most won’t make it down the isle with their virginity in tact, but because we are all better off waiting for that mate for life, we should try to make it a goal to live by those dratted rules. Pretty much just makes life easier for us in the long run.
Quote | So 100% happy with married homosexual folk getting married FTK? Does that cancel out the sin of sex outside marriage I wonder? Hmm...One for the theologians that. |
There’s not a chance in #### that I’m going down this road again. Been there, done that. Brace yourself, it’s 26 pages long. And, if you decide to quote mine me, you better be darn sure you’ve read all 26 pages or it might come back to bite you.
-------------- "Evolution is a creationism and just as illogical [as] the other pantheistic creation myths" -forastero
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