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Sounds like your definition of a "Christian" is different than mine as well. I'm going to go out on a limb and say those two definitions (what constitutes a Christian and what is a God fearing level of affection towards your sister in Christ before marriage) are your main problems in your...

If you mean physical expressions of love (since your definition of "showing affection" is different to mine) you can always ask a person how they feel about x, y, z .. a Christian will answer honestly.

I'm thinking that was an introductory kiss on the cheek - likely common to that culture. That's not making out, two people, reciprocal, yadda yadda .. But I don't know... This is just me in the end . Maybe I'm a bit strict, maybe I'm not.

Making out is fornicating if you're unmarried - it's not affection.

You can easily show affection in ways that don't involve physically touching one another. My husband has always declared he knows I love him because of the way I look at him; I apparently look at him with a love in my eyes no one else ever looked at him like, not even his wife (God rest her...

When it was written could explain the sermon aspect - Paul complained repeatedly about some handful of Jewish believers teaching incorrect practices to Gentile believers in Christ (coercing people into getting circumcised according to law etc) in his other letters, so his writing a sermon to set...

If I was looking to marry and a man called himself Christian and then turned around and tried kissing on me I'd drop him like a hot potato for calling himself a Christian and not living out the faith in his actions. In short - I wouldn't believe his profession of faith. I love sex probably...

yes and no. I understand the premise of a potentially different author - there are a couple reasons the theory exists. First, while Paul always quoted from or paraphrased from the Masoretic text when speaking to Gentiles, Hebrews uses the Septuagint. Also, it's missing the normal salutations...

I'm not buying and reading an entire book about a trend that is fairly well non existent in churches today. Your the one who knows about this, so I'm asking YOU for the exact points which bother you and cause you to disagree.

Actually, Paul did write a letter to the Hebrew exiles that Peter wrote to: Peter wrote: "...just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him" (2 Peter 3:15) Just because Paul's missionary duty was to the Gentiles in the main, doesn't mean he never wrote...

I don't know anything about the purity movement but it seems your main problem overall is people calling "making out" a sin. Is that what bothers you about the movement as you call it? That making out and a secular style of dating went out the window?

@Dirtman and @presidente - you both have good points. Both my husband and I discussed this, but we had both been married before. As far as not knowing yourself yet when you're a virgin, it would be worth considering whether one or the other had been sexually molested (even just "fondled") as a...

1.) My ex is no longer in this country (plus he's barred from reentry) 2.) Not sure he's still alive 3.) If I could find him alive somewhere and presented myself before him claiming Christ as Lord and Savior - I'd be the next propaganda video, beheaded by ISIS on YouTube for your viewing...

A couple of things. First - when I speak, I speak from the personal space of someone who was both married and then divorced under Islam, according to Islamic law, prior to being saved. Just a small point, but Islam is contractual marriage - not covenantal as Christianity is, and my former...

Just a question - if I sin does that absolve your sin? Does it make your own sin something lesser? Sin is sin, it's a crime against all that is Holy. We are called to be Holy even as Christ is Holy. If we sin, we have an advocate in Christ - but there's a difference between walking into a...

Yes. In Jeremiah - [God says]“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water" Jeremiah 2:13 [Jeremiah says of God], “Lord, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put...

we are in the middle of God's judgement as we speak - right now. Whether this is the last and final judgement is anyone's guess - but we here are definitely in the midst of God's judgement on our nation.

I sexted my husband - all text no pictures - after we were married when he was out of town, but I considered that part of the 'marriage bed' and as such sacred. It's not something I've ever done with anyone else, just the man I married, after I married him. I can't imagine growing up in this...

I don't know who Steven Anderson is however, there's a difference between God giving people over to their sin - we see that this has happened in our nation; the further we get from the Biblical Worldview in our society and from being a truly Christian nation, the more sin rules the day, seen in...

I know that's some type of attempt at self deprecation or humility or just a knock on other forum members but regardless of what it attempts to be, it doesn't work. When others make a genuine comment about your well being try just being sincere and genuine instead. People appreciate sincerity...