Monogamy? Promiscuity?

[godwillnspire]

 So, yesterday, I was struggling with the concept of monogamy.  It is so great a sacrifice to restrain yourself, sexually, until you find someone you're ready to commit to, for life.  Twenty-three years of being a virgin was coming to surface, and I honestly made up my mind to explore Free Love, if things don't work out with Keilah.

I found this

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[inchristmyfaith]

Jake

[godwillnspire]

Glad to have you back on LJ, Jessica! Thanks for this comment- your honesty is honorable. You're right that STD's should cause definite pause in my thinking, and I'm assured all the more that they are a weighty issue

[lhynard]

I linked over here after you left that nice compliment for me on triphicus's journal. I hope you do not mind my posting, as I do not know you apart from her and essius' journal.

a few thoughts...Wouldn't it be more egalitarian to share love freely?
I think I see what you are asking. And the answer -- to a certain point only -- is yes, it would be better to share love with all

[godwillnspire]

You said, "However, we know from Jesus' words in the Gospels that there will be no marriage at the Resurrection. Instead, we will be like the angels -- who do not have sex. There will be no need for sex in the afterlife, because there will be no death. And there will be no need for the intimacy that comes from sex, because the other restraints to intimacy will be gone

[lhynard]

Sorry for the long delay.

for what reason should it believed angels don't have sex?

Well, the ancient Jews believed that angels could have sex... with humans. But doing such was an extreme act of rebllion against God and one of the main causes of the Flood and of the cleansing of Canaan that occured after the Exodus. (This information is all in the Bible, but is very often overlooked. I mention a little more here and in its comments and links.)

But every angel ever mentioned in the Bible appeared as a male, so unless angels have homosexual sex with each other, this would be unlikely.

Finally, in the context of what Jesus is saying in the passage where he says we will be like angels, it needs to be understood that in the Bible, there was a fundamental link between marriage and sex. To say the angels neither marry or or given in marriage most likely actually means, "Angels don't have sex."And although there will be no death in the afterlife, who's to say there won't still be a mandate form God to procreate? I see no reason to doubt

[godwillnspire]

Your points are considerable, though not quite fatal to mine. There might be female angels that just didn't get described (Peter's wife never gets described, nor does the first woman born (I think...)). Sex between angels and humans being immoral doesn't make sex between angels and angels immoral. Jesus' comparison of the human afterlife to the life of an angel is a pretty strong point, though. There is, however, something to be said about what exactly Jesus was saying in that passage... he was responding to a trap. That we are now a multitude is a reasonable argument for no more procreation, but I think it's just as likely that God wants new life infinitely. You are probably right on all of these points, nonetheless I remain as flexible as I perceive the Scriptures to be

[missjuliamarie]

I read your LJ note and I immediately thought of Mark Driscoll