Abstinence

The following comment was received reguarding Drewe Llyn's response to the Abstinence Help prayer request. Because this comment was a question in nature, we thought it would be best to post it on our General Board. Please click the comments button below to read Drewe Llyn's reply.

Why do you think that being pure is important for God to love you, or to be a good Christian? Being a good Christian has nothing to do with purity, it comes from the heart and involves helping people, caring for people, being kind and living a good life. Those sorts of thoughts and urges are natural as is sharing them with someone you love and who loves you back, there is nothing wrong, bad, sinful or shamful about being with someone you love, in fact, it's perfectly normal. Surpressing those urges, thoughts and feelings is abnormal as is remaining pure past puberity when hormones kick in, God gave us those feelings and hormones for a reason, and he says nothing about abstaining from sex, it's the orgainsed religions that want their memebers to remain pure, they put a guilt trip on you so you remain true to their cause, they hang damnation over your head if you're "weak" and give in to sin. That's how they keep their numbers in the church.I truly believe God is happy if we are happy and living a life true to his commandments. No where in the commandments does it say "be pure". It's orthadox rubbish. Follow the commandments and forget the rest, if you wanna love your man, then love him and leave your guilt at the door, purity or lack of has nothing to do with God, his love or getting into heaven.