I'd like a discussion on the downsides of virginity. They are HUGE. I understand the benefits but its not one-sided. Waiting until marriage to lose your virginity can be extremely dangerous, principally because you don't know if you are sexually compatible. From personal experience I can say the results can be horrific. You MUST know you are compatible before you marry and I know of no other way than to be sexual. And you cannot know this as virgins. Trust me.
The bible does not state that masturbation is a sin; rather it states that lust is a sin. If one masturbates with lustful thoughts then it is the lustful thoughts that are sinful not the act of masturbation itself. Sexual immorality refers to either physical or imaginative sex (not masturbation) between a single person who is NOT your spouse OR one who is someone else's spouse. It also refers to having sex with animals; basically sexual immorality is what is defined in the Old & New Testament as a sexual sin. Sex is always performed by two or more persons with each other OR a person or persons with an animal whether that act is physical or imaginative. My advise is that rather than branding it as a sin (which is what religion does), it is a personal matter between one and God. We all differ in our spiritual maturity before God. If your conscience does not condemn you, then you are well before God. Otherwise, you should not masturbate.
"Oh no, my actions have consequences. Now I will recite psalms from the Bible so that people understand that I am a different person now." - Еvery OF/ Pornstar nowadays
Current Christian. After seeing all the hate that is shown towards the LGBTQIA community from other christians, i’m considering agnostics, gnosticism etc as i learn much more deeply than you ever have about religion and it’s origins. You have been i doctrinated to hate. And im no longer interested in following your yahweh, war god of hate. I will choose to be Godly, unlike you, and to love , not judge, my neighbors.
Wow the little humans intuitively expect an omnipresent being to be in relationship with them. HMMMM🤔 I wonder how that happened. Almost like threre must be an intelligent design to it all!
I love Caleb so much! He is full of the Spirit of God! His heart of worship and genuine love for Jesus is evident and the fruit is his desire to love others well! During a worship meeting at YWAM Chico I encountered Jesus as Caleb led worship, his voice and tender heart are amazing!! God is using him mightily in this generation!! 🥰
Repent, and if you haven't done that before repent in general of all your past sinful life. Then get baptized in biblical baptism Acts 2:38, be filled with the Holy Spirit and get born again. Then move on walking in the light of the Word. That's the answer.
It also means that churches that 1. Will not accept strugglers need to develop ways to accept them 2. Churches need to equip people who are able to expressly walk with strugglers. 3. Preach and teach ‘Progressive growth and healing.”
This woman is not just smart but wise. I like her balanced message! We aim for the ideal of marriage which God has laid out as one woman, one man with their biological offspring together in a loving supportive relationship. Every other deviation from that creates more and more difficulties, problems and conflicts creating a less stable society and missing the mark that God has said. One of the definitions of sin in the Bible is missing the mark. To invent our own idea of marriage and family comes up our peril.
I feel like the "big picture" here is summed up in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and you are not your own, for you were bought with a price. This also applies to your spouse. Whatever you do to your spouse's body has to be something you could do to the temple of the Holy Spirit. I can kind of see how some forms of bondage _might_ not be a clear-cut sin, such as if you wanted to find out what it's like to try a certain position that you can't hold without it, or if you wanted the feeling of "letting go" and being along for the ride, and entrusting yourself completely to your spouse _on the condition that the spouse is going to treat you in a way that is completely non-degrading and honors you and God._ That being said, I agree that anything that brings pain or harm to your or your spouse's body is off-limits, along with anything that impersonates/role-plays a sexual relationship that isn't the way God designed it to be (belittling, humiliation, "punishment"). Stuff that "acts out" making a sexual relationship about one person having power over another, rather than intimacy, love, and respect.
What kinds of ways can we teach kids, so that we minimize their chances of going down the LGBT identity road? Or does the LGBT identity just happen no matter what we say or don't say during their childhood, like it's baked in to them and just takes time til it manifests? I don't think so, hence the question in my first sentence. So, what kind of things can we say to them or teach them throughout their young life? What can we say to them or teach them before they are seriously considering LGBT identity but after they start hearing about this on the school playground? It's an honest question and I just don't know.
@SwordofLaban That's a great and very full question. No, we don't believe people are destined to an LGBTQ Identity. We do find some common themes of those who struggle with same-sex-attraction or an LGBTQ identity. Many of those come out of childhood, which you can read more about in the Self-Discovery resource linked in the caption (too much to say here). As far as what things we do or say involves creating an environment in our home of having open connection and conversations around sexuality. Some of this involves teaching them God's design for sex, some of this involves connecting with them and their thoughts beliefs about themselves, sexuality, men and women, and more. We have to remember that our goal is not to create straight or not-gay children, but to build whole, emotionally whole, connected humans. We've got a resource called Parent Well - letsparentwell.com that helps us create that environment and navigate raising kids in a hyper-sexualized culture.
To help u it honestly depends some people are born gay or know they are at a young age while others don’t until they hit puberty. And others think they are but find out they aren’t which is fine. Kids honestly don’t talk about sex or about being gay. People can be gay and straight and that is fine if your kid goes through their entire life without having a thought about liking someone of the same sex even if they learn about lgbtq people than that is them knowing they are straight but if they question their sexual identity even if u thought them strictly than that ain’t your fault nor theirs because one can’t help who they like.
Inform children that there is a real enemy to your soul that seeks to distance them from God. Their weapons are lies and temptations to sin ( violations against design). The enemy must be resisted or cast out in the name of Jesus. The latter method is required especially when a Christian claims to be "born that way"
I think one thing I would add is the level of commitment that is contained in the vows. You don't have to vow "'til death do us part" to get a legal marriage license; the level of commitment the state requires for civil marriage is lower than the level of commitment that is required for Biblical marriage. I'd argue that you aren't married--in a Biblical sense--until you've undertaken the Biblical level of commitment, which is lifelong and exclusive. That might happen at a courthouse or it might happen at a wedding ceremony, but whichever one is the moment when you solemnly make a commitment of that level (not just promising to make it in the future, but making it in the present) is where I'd draw the hard-and-fast line. On the other hand, this also means that you could have a civil _and_ ceremonial wedding without getting to that level of commitment; I once heard the story of a wedding in which the bride and groom made vows for "as long as love shall last" rather than "'til death do us part." (The story goes that one attendee--William Bennett, of Book of Virtues fame--gave them paper plates as a wedding present!) If I knew a couple who had had such a wedding, and who now wanted to follow the Biblical precepts of marriage and sex, I'd encourage them to make full-strength vows to each other--and I'd encourage them to abstain from having sex again until they'd done so!
I applaud this woman for her bold and courageous testimony. Takes a lot to go counter-culture. Nicely done. She's in love with the Lord, plain and simple. Thank God for the Pentecostals. They are responsible for catapulting me into a much deeper walk with the Lord. They are a vibrant community. In a way, it's no surprise that the creative, compassionate types (which many gays are) can find a gateway to the Lord with an act of spirit-filled worship..
30 years ago, a religious minor celebrity named Anita Bryant started a program called Homo Nomo. 😊 I believe it failed to gain traction and vanished somewhere along the line. Live and Let Live. 😇
God is described in the Bible in so many ways. The importance is to find out who He really is. He's love yes, but also a God of justice and wants us to turn to Him for truth and salvation . We have to be careful not to see God as who we want Him to be. Thank God for the Holy Spirit.
