Premarital Sex

What is true love based on? It is based on human dignity. And our dignity stems from 2 facts: God created every creature out of love. We are the fruit of his love. God made humans even in his image and likeness..The basis of our dignity is that image which made us surpass all other creatures. He made us in his image because he wants to dwell with us. In the Christian faith, our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. God walked among us because he wants us with him. He visited us to restore us (his creation) to our original image of creation so we can return to him and return his love with free love... As much as God loves us and wants to build a relationship with every one of us, he calls us to protect the dignity of each other not slander it. And what is the deepest love and relationship on earth? It is that between man and woman It is therefore fitting that man protects the dignity of his beloved (and the woman hers) In the Song of Songs, Solomon calls his beloved one his sister - he will protect her honor and dignity as a man does for his sister! His beloved is much more than an object of desire to him. Let us now look at our "free-world" society. The laws proclaim that man is free to do what he wants andthe media promotes ideas of free relationships. You are free to do what you feel like, but in fact you are used as an object to promote their products! You call that free? Yes - free to abolish the respect for the other's body- you are engaging with her for your own interests at the expense of her body. This is the body that the Apostle says is not ours but is God's- this is the body that Christ bought at a high price. This is the body that the Holy Spirit uses for his indwelling in us. It is his temple. The solution to premarital sex is to consider what God does (he loves) and gives (dignity). In this deepest of all relationships, do not go the cheap way but consider that the woman you love is your equal and equally blessed by God's love who gave her dignity as a child. Abstain from sex that makes her an object of your desire, and wait until you marry to express that love as an eternal gift of self never ending and exclusive to her and fruitful as God's creation of us was so fruitful. The fruit is yet another dignity called a child. And in fact the family you build will resemble the family of God (man and woman beget a fruit of their love that is full of life and not only passing emotion) From a strictly social perspective, the couple that claim they are in love have to find other ways of expressing their love to each other as there will be times where it will not be possible to express it through sex. So if you accept pre marital sex without commitment, then if, for any reason, the relationship breaks and you go into a new one, you will be inclined to do the same with your new partner. Where is true love then, the first, second, or even third partner... no limits to the number of times you can engage in pre-marital sex. It loses its meaning and the values it is supposed to represent... The only solution to premarital love is to make it a life-time commitment, exclusively to each other, and a fruitful relationship that it reinvigorates and brings to life this love with offspring. This is called Christian marriage! ** Additional material 1. Biblical data: Mt: 15:19, Mk 7:21, Acts 15:20, 29, 21:25, 1 Cor 6:13, 18, Gal 5:19, Eph 5:3, Col 3:5, 1 Thes 4:3, Rev 2:14, 20-21, 9:21 2. Janet Smith's study shows the current social and cultural impact on young people to participate in premarital sex and suggests ways to avoid it: http://catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0087.html 3. See also: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2964/pre-marital.html