Proverbs 7:34 - Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
“Human Sexuality” a term used today to make sexual sin sound more sophisticated. It sounds more scientific than calling it what it is. Adultery is still adultery. Living together outsides the bond of marriage is still sin in God’s eyes. Homosexual acts are called an abomination to God in the Bible. A teenager engaging in sex with adults is pedophilia. Any child engaging in what God reserved for adults in marriage should outrage us. But, it really doesn’t. Instead we are told they’re expressing their “Human Sexuality.” That is another way for society to hide the truth. The truth is they are expressing their “Human Sinfulness.” God so much wanted to warn us about sexual sin that He listed it as part of the Ten Commandments. All of chapter seven in Proverbs warns of the snares of immoral behavior. Sexual sin is addictive, progressive, and destructive. It can destroy a person through destructive relationships, diseases, and addictions that will develop and demolish you. It causes mental anguish and shame. The ways of illicit sexual relations and addictions are as destructive as any other addictive device. “Her house is the way of hell.” Hell here on earth as you struggle to be free from the hold it will have on you and eternal hell if you never give your life over to Christ.
-- Living in His Word, by Franklin Senters
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That seems reasonable to me, if you are talking about a married teenager engaging in sex with an adult to whom that teenager is married (which in context I assume you do). The Bible seems to prescribe no exact age for marriage, and this has occurred at somewhat varying ages in different times and cultures. Postponing marriage or not getting married at all can vary with individuals as God grants the ability, but to set up an ideal that it is better to wait on marriage and wait on children is contrary to Biblical principles. "Marriage is honourable in all" and "children are an heritage of the Lord". On the heels of this I would add that our society, contrary to the Bible, seems to be generally "antagonistic" toward having large families. See Psalm 127:3,4.
I don't what know exactly what Bro. Senters had in mind. I would assume he meant the predatory sexual behaviour of adults toward children, but he may oppose even marrying below a certain age. I don't know. As for his arminianism in the last sentence, he is arminian in theology. But I chose to just quote what he wrote and not edit his paragraph.
What a person is thinking about while having relations with their spouse is just as serious a matter as the "acts" one points out as abominations to God. Jesus, among many other things of course, exposed the presence of wickedness in the mind, though the body seemed involved in "righteous" acts only. A lot of abominations can be present in the mind of a man who by all apperances is "loving" his wife. The battlefield is in the mind.
Amity, I do sometimes edit what I quote from other sources, but I do try to be fair and only edit for length and not content, and, hopefully, not try to make them appear to believe other than they really do. I may or may not agree with everything they say. Sometimes I will point that out and sometimes I won't. I probably should put a disclaimer in somewhere!
I didn't take it as criticism. I just wanted to clarify that I do edit, but try not to edit for meaning but rather space.
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