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

Anon shares:
God made us all different. Different shapes and sizes and every one likes what they like. If we all liked the same stuff, life would be pretty boring. The desires are meant to help us know what we like. They’re meant to be explored. To figure out what things you prefer based on how you react to them.

Eric if you didn’t have them, how would you know if you’re an ass or boob person? (You know?)
The only problem is that the world has perverted sex so much Christians are ashamed to talk about it. Maybe if we weren’t so ashamed, we could figure out better ways to explore those feelings safely and purely.

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

Let me try and take the second question: I think physical attraction and desire are necessary for a relationship. Personally, I believe in the concept of growing in love rather than falling in love. But every great love story starts with some attraction.

There’s something about the person that you fancy. The way they dress, talk, walk, look, act, etc. Then you get to know the person a little bit more, grow a little more in love everyday and then you begin to desire the person; to make them your own. And that desire grows over time (it’s kinda consuming actually).

You want to have them around each time to share important moments. And after you make them yours, desire still grows. Eventually, sexual desire comes up as well. I believe it’s totally normal, and it’s not a sin… God made us like that.

And so far as you’re mostly with the person in question, it will only increase. It’s meant to help you have an awesome sex life when you get married. You can’t have great sex without desire. You have to really want the person, you know. Personally, I’m looking forward to nurturing a deadly consuming desire for my husband.” ~ Anon, In the House of the Lord, Kumasi.

Alice also shares:

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

“Even though God gave us these strong desires before marriage He did not just leave us like that. He, in His infinite wisdom also gave us His Spirit, in Whom we find the fruit of Self Control.

It is only when we disconnect from this power will those plugs start going off. So I think God really didn’t have to wait because He had given us a way out already.

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

And for the second part. I think looking at us and how we were lost in sin, how we were battered and broken; separated from God and fallen. How we were “dirty”. If Christ would have looked at us that way, I don’t think He would have thought us worthy of the sacrifice He made.

Physical attraction may play a part. But I don’t think it’s the first thing one has to look at because the Godly kind of love looks past and is way above what the physical presents.” ~ Alice Erwuah (AHMA Klothing and R.O.G.U.E Foundation)

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