Crosshairs of Grace

How is your deci­sion about pre­mar­i­tal sex­ual activ­ity influ­enced by your worldview?

Chris­t­ian The­ism comes with its belief in ethics. Mark Cos­grove defines these ethics as “Absolutes in right and wrong come from the absolute char­ac­ter of God as revealed in the Bible and the per­son of Jesus Christ.” (Cos­grove, 2006, p. 138) While the Bible does not use the words pre­mar­i­tal sex, it does use the word for­ni­ca­tion or casual sex or sex out­side of mar­riage. How is my deci­sion on pre­mar­i­tal sex influ­enced by my world­view? God’s absolute moral ethic is, if you are sin­gle there is no sex, there­fore there is no sex.

Sex­ual integrity is the deci­sion to main­tain a life of no pre­mar­i­tal sex. Sex­ual integrity involves con­sis­tently liv­ing a life while guard­ing one’s mind, will, and emo­tions from sex­ual impu­rity. Observ­ing the lives of Joseph and Sam­son pro­vides reminders for those who choose a life of sex­ual integrity and sex­ual immorality.

Per­son­ally, there are two major rea­sons for choos­ing a life of sex­ual integrity. First, it is what God requires of me. Sec­ond, I choose to be a pos­i­tive influ­ence for my two daugh­ters and son. As Christ states, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do noth­ing of Him­self, unless it is some­thing He sees the Father doing; for what­ever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like man­ner.” John 5:19 (NASB)

Ref­er­ences:

Cos­grove, M. P. (2006). Foun­da­tions of Chris­t­ian Thought: Faith, Learn­ing, and The Chris­t­ian World­view. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications.

NASB Zon­der­van Study Bible. (1999). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.