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Recently a friend posted on Facebook the following question: If a man cannot stay sexually pure while he is single, why would God trust him with someone the Lord really loved? This question generated quite a bit of discussion and a few responses of my own.  What follows are the responses I made to the initial question but edited and expanded for the purpose of my blog.  I don’t include that written by others, other than the original question.

Knowing my friend and his desire to honor God I knew that the original question is a rhetorical one.  So in my first response I summed it up as follows:  In other words, if you want a special someone for a wife (or husband) – be a special someone. God takes sexual purity seriously, so should we.

What follows are the rest of my contribution to this thread as well as further amplification and clarification of the theme. Read the rest of this entry »