For question number 1: If fornication is sin, why didn’t God wait and give us strong sexual desires when we get married 💍?

Tori speaks:

“My friends and I established or concluded that sexual desires come during or after puberty. We realized that in the olden days they married early; once a person enters adolescence and sees blood or has wet dreams they were said to be ready for marriage. Hence, they were given into marriage to help them avoid fornication.

This reminds me of the scripture where Paul talks about wishing us believers to be like him (single) but where we find it difficult to hold or control our desires, we rather should get married and not sin by fornicating. But in our day and age we have turned it around.

Also from an article I read, it talks about we being in the image and likeness of God thus certain traits such as self-control should be exhibited in us. So this is like a trial/test period to learn to control these desires.” ~ Victoria Boadu (SMS, KNUST)

For Questions 2&3: And what is love anyway? Does physical attraction and desire not count with the Godly kind of love ❤?

Edith shares:

“Love is an attribute of God’s divine character and grace which we as His children have to learn and exhibit that we bear that birth mark (1 John 4:16b). The interesting thing is that to help us with this love, He demonstrated it physically so that the world will not corrupt its definition (John 3:16).

This love is selfless and does not demand its own way (1 Cor. 13:4). Also love is not physical attraction and sex. This love does not emphasize on emotion but rather attitude and character.

Nowadays the larger display of love we might find around us is the counterfeit of what our Daddy showed us; it’s based on physical attraction (eros) and doing good to the people who are only good to us (phileo).

God expects us to admire all his wonderful handiworks. Thus physical attraction is no sin, but dwelling on it to attempt to satisfy our sexual drives in wrong ways is a sin and God frowns on it (Matthew 5:28).

Let us endeavour to learn more about the birthmark of love that the Bible shows us in 1 Cor. 13 and not conform to the world’s standards.” ~ Edith (Pharmacy, KNUST)

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