by Angie Lewis

Created on: January 22, 2011   Last Updated: January 28, 2011

Why are God’s sexual behavior guidelines so important for the Christian?  God’s guidelines show us how to manage our lives based on His loving principles and guidance so we can enjoy a life of abundance and prosperity in Him. He wants us to grow in wisdom and be emotionally and spiritually healthy people.

God has a purpose. To understand God’s guidelines for sexual purity with the purpose set out for us is to first understand how unhealthy sexual attitudes develop within the mind. Many of us will have to come out of our unhealthy views of what we think how our relationships should be, before we can truly follow God’s guidelines for us.  

Attitudes about sexuality start in the heart and mind of a person; it is in what we think and believe, which causes us to sin. We have sinned even before we have sinned! Example: A ten-year old boy can view dad’s pornography magazines; At fifteen years of age he can listen to his parents arguing over their mother’s unfaithfulness; at sixteen he can have sexual relations with his girlfriend. By the time he is eighteen he believes that it’s normal for a guy to view pornography, think lustful thoughts about girls and women, and to have sex many times before marriage.

In the scenario above, the boy will get married, having experienced wrong views about happiness and love. Like many of us today, he has been conditioned into believing the wrong kinds of moral values for his life. Will he stay faithful to his wife? The chances of him staying faithful in his marriage are against him just by his upbringing, experience and beliefs that were developed within him. Sadly this boy is not alone in how he thinks and believes.

Most people have been conditioned to believe in error about a lot of things that will come back to haunt them later.  Even though they go to church and have parents who encourage right Christian behavior, many of these young people still don’t understand the purpose for relationships because they have not been taught correctly. Train a child in the way he should go so he will not depart from it.

Christian culture is not much better than those who profess unbelief in society. Most young people today think that having sexual relations before marriage and lusting after one another is a normal way to behave. Most boys have not been taught to control themselves with girls and as such, have developed an attitude towards them of lust rather than protection and love.

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