Faramir
April 8th 2003, 10:08 AM
Yesterday @ 09:37 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=58489#post58489)
La Rubia:
Posted by India:
"Also, it's a lot harder to be chaste after having fallen in that area than it is otherwise."
That is sooo true, India. That's what I meant when I said that I had changed. Well, one of the things that was different about me. Man, you just cannot go back once you go that far. When I was a virgin, I was curious about sex and intimacy, but I didn't really care- I didn't know what I was missing, and it wasn't hard to stop myself from having sex. But afterwards, it was very difficult to stay celibate. Not only that, I cannot really explain it, but there's just something about a girl that changes- it just changes everything about you when you aren't a virgin anymore. And if you lost it in the improper context, it screws everything up.
People complain a lot about all the "rules" in the bible.... but I am someone who has literally broken almost every single one of them at one point or another and thought I would be okay, but I can say from experience that all of those style-cramping "rules" in the bible is nothing more than the wisest advice available. God knows exactly what will happen if we do these things, which is why the bible warns against them- for our own good.
Dawnghost, if you are planning on maintaining your virginity (which is what i gathered from your first post), I applaud you- you are doing a wise thing. At times it may be uncomfortable to hold out, and probably even pretty "uncool", and most people will not understand, but I encourage you to stick with it, you will not be sorry if you make it to your weding night still a virgin....but I promise you- take it from me, you WILL be sorry if you don't wait that long. I don't just say that only because of the fact that my boyfriend also slept with my friend... I have thought a lot about it and wondered if he had been a nice, pretty okay guy if I would have regretted it so much, and I have to say that I still would have regretted it just as much- I just probably wouldn't have had to deal with all that pain on top of it.
Kepp going, dawnghost. You have made a wise choice that you will never ever regret. emphasis added
The entire post is excellent. But I particularly like the paragraph that I emphasized. All of God's "rules" are given for a purpose. Our (humans) ultimate good. :thumb:
To see this in context click here:
http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=58489#post58489
La Rubia:
Posted by India:
"Also, it's a lot harder to be chaste after having fallen in that area than it is otherwise."
That is sooo true, India. That's what I meant when I said that I had changed. Well, one of the things that was different about me. Man, you just cannot go back once you go that far. When I was a virgin, I was curious about sex and intimacy, but I didn't really care- I didn't know what I was missing, and it wasn't hard to stop myself from having sex. But afterwards, it was very difficult to stay celibate. Not only that, I cannot really explain it, but there's just something about a girl that changes- it just changes everything about you when you aren't a virgin anymore. And if you lost it in the improper context, it screws everything up.
People complain a lot about all the "rules" in the bible.... but I am someone who has literally broken almost every single one of them at one point or another and thought I would be okay, but I can say from experience that all of those style-cramping "rules" in the bible is nothing more than the wisest advice available. God knows exactly what will happen if we do these things, which is why the bible warns against them- for our own good.
Dawnghost, if you are planning on maintaining your virginity (which is what i gathered from your first post), I applaud you- you are doing a wise thing. At times it may be uncomfortable to hold out, and probably even pretty "uncool", and most people will not understand, but I encourage you to stick with it, you will not be sorry if you make it to your weding night still a virgin....but I promise you- take it from me, you WILL be sorry if you don't wait that long. I don't just say that only because of the fact that my boyfriend also slept with my friend... I have thought a lot about it and wondered if he had been a nice, pretty okay guy if I would have regretted it so much, and I have to say that I still would have regretted it just as much- I just probably wouldn't have had to deal with all that pain on top of it.
Kepp going, dawnghost. You have made a wise choice that you will never ever regret. emphasis added
The entire post is excellent. But I particularly like the paragraph that I emphasized. All of God's "rules" are given for a purpose. Our (humans) ultimate good. :thumb:
To see this in context click here:
http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=58489#post58489