There is a darker side to this creation tale. The second half involves temptation, eating forbidden fruit, a new awareness of evil, and a sudden sense of shame. Because sin had now entered the world, only then would God make clothes as a provision to protect and cover them. Why should people abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage? The short answer is because you only get screwed (pun intended). In the economy of marriage, where real love is sown through one’s commitment, the personal fruit to be reaped becomes manifold. Outside this confine, only lust masquerading as love exists and the transactions become a zero sum game. It’s a game because fornicators and adulterers want the benefits these relationships provide without having to pay any of the associated costs. For every winner there is always a loser in a zero-sum game. As each player in this game selects their strategy for winning out, given the opponents stance, a sort of Nash equilibrium of pay off develops at which each partner settles. Neither party really gets everything they want in the deal. The more desperate emotional player usually stands to lose out to the more patient and disciplined opponent. As negotiating skills sharpens and hearts harden, these deals can become very cut throat indeed. All of this occurs because real love does not exist in such relationships as I explain in other posts; it happens to be why they are prohibited by God. The naïve simpleton may think He is winning big when He sleeps with the adulteress; he may think her husband’s loss is in fact his gain. But what exactly does he gain from her? The bible says a smooth sweet talker with very little action who happens to be a two edged sword that cuts both ways? She may in fact only be using you as a means to get back at her husband. If she is a bitter and unfaithful woman toward her husband, what possess you to think she will be loyal to you who are attempting to steal cookies from the cookie jar? In his self-focus, he completely fails to see the red flag waving before him. Self-focus is also what makes women, desperate for affirmation and affection, gulliable allowing Godless lustful men to creep into their households and take them captive. If a suitor has no intention of marrying you, then he does not love you as he claims. All such people can be identified by their deeds. Keeping God’s commandments will keep you from being screwed like this.
Related Links:
Sexual Immorality: Cannot Drag to Heaven. Be Washed to be Saved
Why Should I avoid Sexual Immorality?
Nudity, Foreplay Sex: Only in the Marriage Bed do they Make Love
Affairs, Infidelity: You cannot find love with a cheat
Prostitution, Harlotry: You cannot buy Real Love
Pornography & Erotica: Only Breed Envy
Masturbation: What can be more Selfish?
Why Porn can't Spice up your Sex Life: Life imitates Art
Promiscuity, Orgies, & Polygamy: Only Raise Costs not Benefits
Flirtation, Seduction, & Innuendo: Only a Fool's Errand
Voyeurism, Peeping, Staring: Not only Breeds Envy but Shame
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Do you have to learn the Hard Way?
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