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Ministries|Fri, Nov. 21 2008 02:50 PM EST

A Christian Cullen?

By Lane Palmer|Christian Post Guest Columnist

So what would a ‘Christian Cullen’ be? I think you’ve figured it out. It’s a Christian who - even though they are attracted to another person - decides to abstain from sex until marriage because he or she knows that breaking God’s design is very much like draining blood.

Listen - making a commitment to save sex until marriage will NOT lessen your enjoyment in relationships. It will NOT mean that you are weird or too scared.

It WILL mean that God will bless your decision and give you an enjoyment of sex in marriage that the ones who gave it away will never know.

And if you have already made that mistake - the great news is that with a change of heart and a prayer for forgiveness, you can be made whole by God’s love and power.

Who’s with me for a ‘Christian Cullen’ movement?

Head: The Bible warns against pre-marital sex not because God doesn’t want us to enjoy it - but because it was designed for marriage. When we break that design, there are serious consequences.

Heart: Feel excited that one day you will be able to enjoy sex in the way it was designed.

Hands: Talk to your parents and/or youth leaders about your commitment to purity and how they might be able to help you reach your goal.

*Source: http://www.twilightthemovie.com/

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Lane Palmer serves as a writer for Dare 2 Share Ministries (D2S) in Arvada, Colorado, a ministry committed to energizing and equipping teenagers to know, live, share and own their faith in Jesus. For more information about D2S, please visit www.dare2share.org.
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  • mathetes »
    Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:27 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

    Mr. Palmer,

    I absolutely agree with the point you are making and your appeal for keeping sex within God's boundaries for it. I appreciate the way you take movies and tie them in with God's Word. Please keep doing it.

    My only question concerns one small part of how you got there. When quoting 1 Cor. 6:18 above, you didn't say what translation you used, so I looked up the Greek, and I'm not sure how your translation arrived at that conclusion. Throughout the Bible God makes it clear all sin is equally bad: see Zeph. 1:9 where God likens superstition to violence and fraud, or Mal. 2:16 where God compares divorce with violence and being unfaithful.
    Rather than "this passage makes an obvious category distinction" as you wrote, perhaps we should say "this translator makes an obvious distinction."

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