Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: sequent!tas@uunet.uu.net (Theresa Snider) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sex before marriage question Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 07:57:06 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 29 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article you write: >A girlfriend of mine is teaching young people (approx. 11-14,15) in a >Sunday school class. She is a college graduate, and is 23 yrs old, living >on her own. She got into teaching that sex before marriage is wrong, they >were on that particular theme and she got asked if she was a virgin. How >do you think she should have answered the question? She didnt know what to >say and we had different ideas on how she should answer. Please reply to >me directly, as I dont subscribe to this list. > >Thanks, >Teresa She should answer in truth, "Let your yes, mean Yes, and your no, mean No." If she would have to answer yes, she would have to explain that what she has done was wrong, and has asked for forgiveness and refrained from doing it again. Teaching sometimes gives us a very good chance to examine our lives... We try to teach things that perhaps we have failed at, but we can repent and God can use us to help others to not do the mistakes that we have done. I'm glad your friend is teaching that fornication is wrong...in today's world, sin is becoming an "acceptable" thing, and not many people are willing to take a stand and teach what is right in God's sight. God bless, Theresa