by Dwight Whitsett

Created on: January 12, 2007   Last Updated: April 23, 2007

The Danger of Infidelity
One night on television I, and at least million others, saw a woman crying as if her broken heart would never mend. Trust had crashed and burned and the wreckage of her marriage was scattered across the landscape of her soul. She had betrayed and been betrayed by that ultimate betrayal: infidelity
The program dealt with infidelity and its effects on marriage. The devastating results of that most intimate disloyalty were well chronicled. I found it interesting and disturbing what they did not say. Not once was God or Christ (or Allah or Buddha, for that matter) even mentioned.

The "Sexual Revolution" of the sixties and seventies was disastrous! Venereal diseases, some currently incurable, ravaged the ranks of the sexually promiscuous. Even today millions are destined to die as a direct result of immoral sexual practices.
It is incredible and incredulous that the very way of life that historically champions monogamy and family unity was totally ignored. Each couple featured on that show had, at one time or another, made vows of fidelity to a marriage partner and to God. The teachings of Christ have always promoted and upheld truths that make marriages and families strong. It seems at least they could have said something along the lines of, "You know, the Christians had it right all along, sexual purity, monogamy and marital fidelity is the only way to go!"
An additional report in gives scientific confirmation to the benefits of sexual purity. In a study of 957 women researchers found that long-term monogamous sexual relationships trigger a protective response in the mother that wards off preeclampsia and potentially fatal eclampsia.
"Such a concept is not as far-fetched as it may sound. For example, scientists already know that substances from the father lead to a beneficial immune response in the mother that helps sustain a healthy placenta. In preeclampsia, blood flow through the placenta is inadequate."
"Women who change their sexual partner reinstitute the risk of this disorder. In fact, such women are five times as likely to develop the condition as...women who have remained with the father of their previous children." (SCIENCE NEWS, October 15, 1994, p.246)
Why does this amaze us? After all, it's only logical. God's way is the natural way...the best way...the most beneficial way. The one who knows what is best for us human beings is the one who made us!

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