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JUL-28-10
16:50:46
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Forum: Prayer Requests and Answers
Moving update
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paperbrain
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It's the final week push before my move, and I still have not found a home for 1 of my dogs or for both of my cats. Pray that God will find loving homes for them. Pray for the last minute move scramble and the stress involved and also pray for traveling mercies on August 4th.
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JUL-28-10
13:19:28
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Forum: Christian Singles Member Surveys
Daddy and son
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Submitted Anonymously
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I was at Wal Mart the other day and this man was there behind me with his 7 year old son. and the man held the door open for me and he told his son.......always open the doors for women. Such a good Daddy he was to show his son how to be a perfect gentleman.....which is really lagging these days in our society.
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JUL-26-10
11:52:12
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Forum: Christian Singles Member Surveys
RE: SINGLES and sexuality, can we talk?
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paperbrain
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Wow. Thanks for your awesome response Illumination. Indeed, Christ's Grace is a central part of the Whole Christian, and that includes sexuality. To be Alive In Christ means to be free from sin, not only in deed, but from the guilt and slavery involved. May we all continue in Christ's grace so that He will increase while we decrease.
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JUL-26-10
6:39:1
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Forum: Christian Singles Member Surveys
RE: SINGLES and sexuality, can we talk?
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SeekingHeart
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Heartening to see how you answered 'beccy! What a great answer! I'll elaborate on what you touched a bit later.
First I'm going to draw a picture of contextual culture, examining chronology and accepted societal behavioral standard.
When one considers that the covenantal one-flesh union, seen first within the proscribed context after creation, within marriage, (and 2500 some years later, re-specified and re-ratified in the decalogue)
was the first blessing sanctified and blessed in the garden, that Satan's attacks would center on this amazing relational blessing should not come as too great surprise. Cleaving to the wrong partner(s), or sharing this blessing in non-proscribed ways can tear the very fabric of society apart comes as no real surprise. Later, I'll further elucidate the "detaching" (leaving family of origin) that Adam seems to acknowledge in Gen 2:24 (Eph 5:31, and a quote i've lost in Mt 10? reference this as well), before he can "attach (cleave) to Eve.
These counterfeits (Satan's primary modus operandi, as deceiver, and father of lies, come to steal, to cheat, to kill) are numerous. Examining human theological evolution (beginning with the Sumerians, Ur of the Chaldeans, alternately called Shinar,in the Fertile Crescent) we see that first, sex itself was DEIFIED. Having sexual relations, the act itself, was man(racially) becoming "god" or "like god".
All of the goddesses of fertility had their historicist origins here...and sex itself was worshiped not only because of the (recognized) pro-creative function, but also the compelling nature of the drive, and how it caused intense desire, passion and bonding. The original pagan methods of worship employed (male and female) prostitution, child sacrifice (ostensibly to dispose of the unwanted products of this perversion of the holy and undefiled intended nature of sex)
The Tower of Babel, in the age of Peleg (1757 to 1996 years after creation, about 2239-2008 BC) marks the first historicist reference that there were cultural/religious negative sanctions on sex, and that "godliness" involved NOT participating. That suggests somwehere between 1431 and 1513 BC (approx time of the Decalogue) the Israelites were still copulating under golden calves in religious ritual orgies. This leaves about 600 years between Babel and Sinai (using Ussher's chronology), where culture was beginning to frown on "casual sex" or "ritual sex", but still practiced it.
Any thoughts on what these cultural mores and inherent biases could cause within society, and how they could shape formation of accepted modern theological teachings?
That qĕdeshah (and the obvious overtones of Venus-or Astarte) were referenced in old Hebrew tomes should be lost on no one. Puritanical thought will deny this vehemently, and claim supremacy over pagan (and subsequent vilifying) of all (strictly procreative permissible) its not-so-exclusive claims on attempt at controlling sexuality.
There is a commonality between DEIFYING sexuality...and the subsequent DEFYING of it...
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JUL-24-10
22:16:39
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Forum: Christian Singles Member Surveys
RE: SINGLES and sexuality, can we talk?
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illumination
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My response begins with Phillipians 2:12-18 (NIV - Shining as Stars). To put it simply, I have to work it out with God. I must cry out to God for wisdom in all things, including my and my mate's sexuality and sexual behaviors. The Lord created us male and female, as beautiful sexual beings, to enjoy the gift of sex with our mates, mutually as one flesh.
Healthy sexuality is an integral part of being a wholly (holy) restored person. Resources abound on this topic. It is a very worthy topic, too, especially since our brain is the primary sex organ, and it also happens to be what we pray to Jesus with. We should reverently talk about sexuality with our potential intended, with the respect that they and the subject deserves remembering that we are all at different places within our own history, and our experiences have shaped our ways of thinking, bearing in mind that the enemy creates a custom-made crisis for each one of us, and sets it up very early on in our lives.
Where better for the enemy to strategically damage us than sexually, where we fear to talk about it, think we are the only one, become hopeless, feel guilty, and believe the enemy's lies. Perversions put in place by the enemy, such as sex crimes, deeper and deeper moral decay e.g. sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll or "role" and pornography addictions, just to name a few, have set families up for failure before they were even formed. Premarital sex leads to future mistrust, suspicions, confusions, misunderstandings, and infidelities. The enemy capitalizes on the fact that sexual actions create spiritually powerful bonds "the one-flesh bond", that bind us with spiritual connections that are not easily broken.
There are many "self"-help books (Ecclesiastes 12:12) dedicated to healing, but, due to individual differences and the unlimited number of possible sequences and types of experiences, there is no one-size-fits-all man-made approach to healing. I have learned that, ultimately, it is only Jesus that does real, true healing.
Why then do we pray and pray to Jesus for clarity and deliverance and yet do not overcome that which we know to be sin? One possible answer is that "Unconfessed sin blocks our healing." A good place to begin is a prayer guide by Neil T. Anderson "the steps to FREEDOM IN CHRIST". A memory may be recalled when we can bear it, in the safety of the presence of the Lord (often where two or more are gathered in a purposeful attitude of prayer for healing), as He is healing us.
Take heart, when we wholeheartedly approach the throne of grace and mercy, ready and willing to give up everything if necessary in order to receive what the Lord Jesus has for us, miracles of healing and forgiveness happen. The Lord, He is faithful!
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