Appendix 34
Virginity
Sons and daughters of the true believers must be taught
that their happiness throughout their lives depends
on
following
God’s law and preserving
their
chastity. This means that they must keep themselves for their spouses
only, and never allow anyone else
to
touch
them
in
a
sexual
manner
(23:5-6,
24:30,
33:35, 70:29-30). |
Today’s society is replete with powerful temptations. In America’s society of the eighties, even parents
start
talking
about
boyfriends
for
their
daughters
and
girlfriends for their sons. When they reach their teens, many parents even supply birth control means to their children. An alarming percentage of teen-agers are sexually
active,
even
though
they
are
not
physiologically
mature,
and
without
any
moral limitations. Millions of illicit pregnancies and the tragedies
associated with them, plus millions of tragic abortions, happen every month in the USA.
Among the results
of this moral breakdown: unwanted
and unsupported children,
delinquent and irresponsible fathers, criminals who have no regard for people’s lives or properties, millions of social misfits, incurable
genital herpes, incurable
genital warts, devastating syphilis and gonorrhea,
dysplasia, the killer AIDS,
and new diseases never known before.
What most people do not know is that this moral breakdown
costs them dearly throughout their lives. For the only law that rules the world is God’s law, and
these flagrant violations of God’s law cost them a lot of misery and problems
(20:124).
The true believers
who care about their children
will advise them and remind them repeatedly and persistently (20:132) to keep their chastity. This means staying virgin
until
their
wedding
night,
then
staying
loyal
to
one’s spouse—never committing adultery—for their own happiness. God’s advice to keep our chastity,
before and after marriage, is for our own good. God is the one who controls
our health, wealth, and happiness or misery (53:43,
48).
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