I have known many people who, because of their crude and shameful fantasies, indulged their passion with unrestrained lust. And the union of one man with one woman in marriage must be a union on each of those three levels if marriage is to be what God intended it to be, and the union is to be lasting.
Who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers.
Submit Comment. All are called to chastity and, within that, some are called to celibacy; but a call to celibacy is not the same thing as discovering that one has a weak or negligible sexual drive. She would play the harlot with many lovers even as Israel had left the true God to go after a multitude of strange gods.
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John Groves defines porneia as " fornication, adulteryincest, whoredom, all kinds of lewdness" A Greek and English Dictionary, p. All the best and thanks for being here, Woody Like Liked by 1 person. Women, by and large, love rather naturally while seeking to be loved.
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Can you name a verse? Lewis has said, that the Christian standard "is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts" that obviously something is wrong both with us personally and with our society. In , the Scottish health minister, Shona Robison noted, "There are deeply-held views on moral issues and cultural and lifestyle issues