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Anna Ray's avatar

you should write a book

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Clint Mashariki's avatar

Great writing. I understand the depth of emotion in this. As a man who lives by the Bible as his standard in life, I am yet to find one verse that implores a man to ascertain whether or not his wife is a virgin on their wedding night. To say it is a construct of man and not of God is accurate. So I'll speak of what God says through St. Paul. Chastity is expected of the man as it is of the woman. There is no partiality. "It is well for a man not to touch a woman ..." 1 Corinthians 7:1 says, advocating for sex only within the confines of marriage, for both parties. It goes on to say in verses 3 and 4: "The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does." Ephesians 5:28 lays down the most fundamental principle as far as sex is concerned. It says "Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself." This is what the Bible says. If one is led with true love, they have no time to check for virginity. It is meant to feed the ego of vile men. There is literally a captain of the army who married a prostitute named Rahab. She ended up being one of the matriarchs in the geneaology of Jesus Christ.

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