Christianity for Virgins

The Bible's written by people, but inspired by God. The Bible's written by fallible people and inspired by a infallible God. Just let that sink in.

Paul says that it's good to be alone. Dig around 1 Corinthians 7. You should marry if you can't control yourself, other than that, you can stay by yourself and be concerned about God and what he wants.

I'm not saying that's what its says. But it's what it sounds like. "It's better to marry than to burn." How many times do you hear that in your life?


__As Taken from BibleGateway.com__

1 Corinthians 7:25-28
New King James Version (NKJV)
To the Unmarried and Widows
25 Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is: 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
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So, God didn't say anything, but Paul and God are cool, so it's okay for him to give his opinion...

And yet, in that same chapter, and throughout the Bible, there is a lot of pictures of how husbands and wives should act. There is almost nothing on how an unmarried (implied virgin) person should act. And as Paul said, he has no commandment.

I don't read a lot of Christian fiction (or Christian nonfic either, for that matter). But the majority of C-fic is romance. People in relationships, with other people. Not that they don't have godly messages, but no one likes a story where the girl doesn't get the guy in the end, even though she's happy with God alone and is sparing herself a lot of trouble. Nope, none of these people can handle being alone.

That doesn't send a good message...

I love romances--the occasional Christian romance, and a lot of secular historicals.

But, God made Adam for Eve and it says back in Genesis that God said it's not good for man to be alone. Be fruitful and multilpy and all that.

To each his (or her) own.

There's a lot for women in the Bible, how wives should act, and something about how she'll be saved through childbearing.

Paul, you just said it's good to remain unmarried. But then you said I'll be saved through childbearing. Are you saying I won't be able to exhibit self-control, and that when I'll marry and have a kid I'll be saved?

I think I know what Disraeli meant when he said, "Every woman should marry...and no man."