Sleeping together?

Would it be foolish to admit that in high school I didn't give in to the pressure of dating, kissing or sex because I wanted to be able to pet a unicorn?

Before people laugh too hard, there is mention of a unicorn in the Bible along side a talking donkey.

I think I stop believing after I learned that one of my friends was raped. Stolen innocence and it's not always the girls we have to protect.

When I think back to my childhood, teen years, I can't remember ever discussing sex with my parents. I don't think we even had the where do babies come from?, talk. I remember them talking us about it around grade 5, but not at home. I guess it's possible we never had a discussion about it. Maybe it was awful that I blocked it out.

Kids can get married with parental consent at 16 and without it at 18.
But the parental consent thingy is now being phased out in various
parts of the country especially in Scotland.

Now I have to ask -- once the two of you were married, did you keep the friends? I think I'd be blushing way too much to keep the friends.

In germany its 14 haha

Peer pressure is a crock for this one. I don't eat chocolate because I'm being pushed into it. Chocolate is great, so I indulge. Same concept with sex. If it was peer pressure then all we have to do to raise the amount of people eating liver is to start teaching that there is a time and place for liver, but not yet for kids. And then remind them "everyone is doing it anyway." lol

Perhaps God used that idea of a unicorn to protect you. God used the imaginary unicorn with you just as He used the talking donkey with the Prophet? God works in mysterious ways.

I know what you mean by stolen innocence, but on a deeper level, in a somewhat different sense, none of us has had any innocence to steal since the fall. We all need cleansing.

Temptation? It depends on who you're around. I know my friends and old boyfriends believed in God but none of us practiced what we were supposed to. I suppose if I had been .more involved in Christian groups or heck even went to church regularly I wouldn't have done some of the stuff I did. I can't say it wouldn't have happened if I was more involved but I think it might have helped. Who knows really. I remember for a period of time there was some sort of thing that people who weren't virgins and committed to Christ were saying they were renewed virgins, something to that effect. I never went that route. I did what I did, not proud of it. Do I wish I would've waited until I was married? Yes.

I just looked it up. What I find interesting with these silly laws. in Indiana a Male my age can go have sex with a 16 year old female and it is ok. but if said male wanted to do it right and get married. parent has to consent. talk about things being backward.

My guess is they referred to themselves as "born-again virgins".

As sinners, we commit and submit to Jesus Christ, and are born-again.

In theory, as sexual sinners, we commit and submit to Jesus Christ, and are born-again virgins.

Jesus Christ saves and allows us to be born-again.

Abstinence does not save, though, so we can't be born-again virgins.

Am I the only one who literally feels like (or actually does) cry every time I see the term, "unwanted pregnancies"? Maybe it is just that in my house we had the old-fashioned idea that children were blessings, and my parents loved and "expected" every one of us. I can't bear the idea that there are people out there (good people) who "don't want this pregnancy" I suppose they call it "unwanted pregnancy" because it is too horrible even for them to say "I never wanted this baby to exist or have a chance to live! If I had my way, this soul would never have been conceived!"

Is this the same system that tells people they come from monkeys? I am surprised that they even bother to have laws. Sometimes I get confused about whether we are speaking as citizens of the nations of this world or as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven. We need to reckon ourselves as separate from the unclean things all around us. When we do, we will begin to pay a price, just like our spiritual forefathers did. I know I am preaching. No apologies for it. The tone in this thread just sound so secular.

Are you deaf? We WERE very secular. Not all of us popped out of the womb baptized and wearing a choir robe like you might have.

When I think back to my childhood, teen years, I can't remember ever discussing sex with my parents. I don't think we even had the where do babies come from?, talk. I remember them talking us about it around grade 5, but not at home. I guess it's possible we never had a discussion about it. Maybe it was so awful that I blocked it out.

I can imagine my Father saying, don't and my Mother being really embarrassed. My Sister and I were discussing our family dog the other day. My parents never had him fixed, it was the seventies and I think animals were just supposed to know better. Once and a while a lady dog would come and visit Smokey and my Dad would spray them with the hose to try and get them apart, lol. I said to my Sister, good thing he never caught us or we'd get the hose.

So what if two people decide to have a celebration of a union as husband and wife except they don't have the pastor and the vows and the legal document. Are they still shacking up?