PS: today even my woke and very secular students are often not involved in relationships! Christian students at university often have a terrible time but today abstinence is often what they have in common with non-Christians!
Liked it then and like it again now. Purity culture was of course totally Arminian in context and sold a false theology: in essence that good behaviour would lead to happy marriage and great sex. Nowhere in the New Testament does God promise that kind of reward for following his precepts. My godliest cousin gave the best years of her life to being an indescribably brave tentmaker missionary in an exceedingly dangerous majority Muslim nation. She remains single to this day although she always would have preferred to have been married. I was widowed comparatively young - my late wife is probably the best Christian I will ever have the privilege of knowing this side of eternity. Theology matters - God is not a slot machine.
PS: today even my woke and very secular students are often not involved in relationships! Christian students at university often have a terrible time but today abstinence is often what they have in common with non-Christians!
Liked it then and like it again now. Purity culture was of course totally Arminian in context and sold a false theology: in essence that good behaviour would lead to happy marriage and great sex. Nowhere in the New Testament does God promise that kind of reward for following his precepts. My godliest cousin gave the best years of her life to being an indescribably brave tentmaker missionary in an exceedingly dangerous majority Muslim nation. She remains single to this day although she always would have preferred to have been married. I was widowed comparatively young - my late wife is probably the best Christian I will ever have the privilege of knowing this side of eternity. Theology matters - God is not a slot machine.