It’s tempting to look at the so-called “Great Abstaining,” as The Cut put it, and think it’s a notch on the belt of those preaching biblical morality in a culture run amok.
But I don’t think that’s what’s happening, unfortunately.
I think what we’re seeing now — this growing (and, on its face, encouraging) trend toward sexual abstinence — is just the flip side of the same counterfeit coin: the siren sound of the world, of our own fractured morality. It’s the same voice that has told us: “Sex is just sex.” “There’s no harm in casual hookups.” “What’s the problem if it’s consensual, with or without marriage?”
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Now, apparently, many are choosing to abstain from sex (ironically) for what I believe to be the very same reasons they opted to have sex indiscriminately.
Scripture urges abstinence outside of marriage because God calls us to keep the marriage bed “undefiled” (Hebrews 13:4-6). In the beginning, God made clear His design is for man and woman to join together in marriage and become “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). Those principles — the spiritual bond solidified by the act of sex — reverberate throughout the biblical narrative. The Apostle Paul urged
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