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I need your opinions and experience Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 15:23:00 f3a63a No.753776

I know that people don't like others posting reddit stuff here, but this is making me question a lot of things. In this link, the consensus is generally that pre marital sex is okay, and essentially a gift from God.

>"Didn't wait - no regrets."

>"Some of us are smashing purity culture"

>"I didn’t wait, and I think my life is far better and more in line with God wants for me than if I had waited"

Is this really right? Am I just living some relic? I'm a sophomore in college, not exactly the most Christian of places to surround yourself in, and so I try to go to more Christian things, but then I realize I practice a much different faith than them, so even in that it is a solitary walk with God, or at least feels like one, but then its like, no, Im just a fool. Other Christians saying that you need "experience" and need to find yourself sexually, I just feel like… Im not really even sure. Shaken? Confused? I dont know, that seems to be overly dramatic. It just seems like I am stuck teetering between two worlds, where others easily have both.

Im not just chosing this path because a relic culture am I? or coping? Is this the right way? I read about the desert fathers and their struggles, but then I return to the world around me and have to face it. I also understand that God doesn't promise an easy life on earth, and I can expect no reward in return for any of this, and Ive also bought a small cross to wear, like the "burden" from the Pilgrims Progress to remember what I am for.

But I need your thoughts/experience. I am 19 for reference.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 15:29:02 cece8b No.753780

>>753776

It's only within the last couple centuries that the West decided that waiting for marriage is bad. Just remember that anyone who has had a sexual partner before their spouse has more difficulty forming a lasting pair bond.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 15:33:24 ba439a No.753782

Have you opened your Bible?

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 15:36:24 5d1c40 No.753784

Reddit is a Marxist hellhole. Flee from there and don't look back. Don't be like Lot and dwell in that place thinking you can change Sodom & Gomorrha. You can't.

Just because some atheist christians think it is okay to sin doesn't make it okay. Stay true to God and yourself and He will give you a woman to love.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 15:51:10 0b42ee No.753789

>>753776

Yes, "finding yourself" sexually feels great and whatnot, but that's the point, its a pleasure of the flesh. Most can be fine practicing in moderation, but it is a sin, its lust, and people succumb for it and later don't understand why they're suffering so much.

Also, people will go through extraordinary lengths to justify their failures, making the word of god fit their life that is just pointless peer pressure.

eg. someone who never thought of becoming chaste, and now seeing how it can be valuable.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 15:56:00 758b2f No.753791

okay so don't be christian. it's your life. others will know better

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 16:25:18 829fd7 No.753796

Scripture is plain, simple and clear. Anyone who goes against what scrpiture plainly, simply and clearly says with their justification being 'the bible's morals are of it's time, things like outlook on pre-marital sex and other issues (gay etc.) are need to change with the times, it's current year fs' - however that is further justified (it's always weak whatever the argument) - have no right or logical reason to treat any other aspects of scripture, including the gospel itself, as solid, unchanging and objectively true. It turns the entire faith into a tumbling house of cards, a sharade, for which there is no justification for taking any of it seriously, ever. You do what you want, but just understand the above when you do.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 16:33:54 f3a63a No.753800

>>753796

>>753789

>>753784

thank you.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 16:57:26 b1dc1d No.753809

>>753776

You and I are pretty similar OP, except I know not to believe any of the nonsense spewed on reddit. Those same people will tell you that mutilating your cock and calling yourself a woman is perfectly normal, but valuing chastity makes you "mentally ill" or "disturbed". The supposed Christians on there only dabble in Christianity as a hobby, never reading the Bible or having Christ at the center of their life. Do yourself (and everyone annoyed with these constant threads about reddit) a favor and abandon that site for good… I did when I was 19, and I'm glad I did.

>>753780

>anyone who has had a sexual partner before their spouse has more difficulty forming a lasting pair bond

I see this happen all the time with those who are promiscuous.

>bang someone a few times

>start dating them

>the relationship is based purely around sex, with the occasional conversation, dinner out, etc.

>the "relationship" gets boring after a while

>one (or both) of the individuals cheat

>break up

>repeat

I'm glad I've stayed celibate. My heart is burning with passion for everything in a woman but sex, and that's exactly how I want it to be until marriage.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 17:16:46 5cbf72 No.753812

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>>753776

>>"Didn't wait - no regrets."

>>"Some of us are smashing purity culture"

>>"I didn’t wait, and I think my life is far better and more in line with God wants for me than if I had waited"

God have mercy. They can't call themselves Christians if they convince other people that some sins are ok or they aren't sins at all.

Matthew 18: 6

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea"

Hang in there little one, don't let the hirelings pull you away from the Lord

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 17:50:26 c6ee6c No.753816

Fornication is a sin.

No frigging exception.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 17:52:44 f3a63a No.753818

>>753809

>>753812

I guess this is what I was looking for. Its not like >>753791 I was thinking to abandon God, its more just that I look around and get discouraged the more I look, especially when its places like reddit christianity, or people I respected in real life who then turn out to be far different than what they profess.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 17:58:20 c9b810 No.753821

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>>753776

>smashing purity culture

Isaiah 5:20

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

>I'm a sophomore in college, not exactly the most Christian of places

Be careful who you surround yourself with. If everyone around you is a hedonist, keep yourself alone with Christ in your heart, lest you become tempted. Pray for comfort and for discipline. May God be with you.

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 22:18:04 5de875 No.753964

Where would one point to in the bible if one wanted to refute this foolishness?

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 22:19:13 00ad83 No.753968

If you do it it's a mortal sin and you're going to hell.

Do not listen to the world, because the the ruler of this world is Satan.

Remember that if the world hates you too its because they also hated the One the Father sent.

Christanon 01/09/19 (Wed) 22:21:21 00ad83 No.753975

>>753964

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers: