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If we look closely at the classical statue of David, we know that he wouldn't have passed an audition.
Considering Goliath, Confucious said, "Big noise small p*nis!".Not at all. I am saying that Jesus did not die on the cross so that a former-prostitute could avoid an STD test before marriage. I do not see that particular verse in the Bible.
Amen. But it does not cleanse a former prostitute from herpes and HIV, unfortunately.
Perhaps in your neck of the world. In mine, premarital blood tests were the standard practice for a very long time.
Usually it is not the trade professional who has STD issues. It is the amateur who sleeps around with multiple partners. The trade profession is a well controlled industry, especially in countries where it has been legalised and has policies that ensure that traders and clients are appropriately protected. The bottom line is that most women, who have a history of multiple partners and then becomes converted to Christ, are not going to divulge their background and past sins. The way our society has gone, being a virgin on the wedding night is less likely than not.
None of what I posted in that spoiler tag is promised to pass away until Jesus comes back, and when Jesus comes back it will be too late to get married.If she is a new creation in Christ, wouldn't the "warts" be part of her that has passed away? One advantage would be that she would have no problem knowing how to go about things on the wedding night.
Yeah, and God didn't call me to do the same thing. As you said, it was a one-off for a definite prophetic purpose. It is not prescriptive for how Christians are supposed to pick their spouses or conduct their married lives. That was not a healthy relationship, she was a terrible wife to him. That was actually the point in his case, so in any context which is going to be practical to myself or any other single Christian looking for a spouse today, I see bringing up Hosea as the opposite of helpful. First you're saying the old has passed away, and second you're bringing up what Hosea did. The second is not relevant at all if the first is true of a particular person that a Christian might evaluate for marriage. If the second is relevant, then not all of the old has passed away in the person's life. God made us all perfect in placement (Ephesians 2:6) but when we get married, we're not getting where our spouses are in placement. We're getting who our spouses are in practice, which means we have to deal with all of their sins that they haven't completely ceased yet. If Ephesians 2:6 was the practice, Paul wouldn't have needed to write Ephesians 4:1-6:20.
I think maybe he's just from a different generation that has a different mindset?
When you're on the Internet, that's not going away, and people are going to talk about you after you're out of the industry whether they are Christian or not. And anyone who would get together with you deserves to know what it is they are getting into. Richard La Mora did that, his wife used to be in the industry and he knew about it. He did not choose what I would choose, nor what I would recommend choosing, but he made his choice and I wish them the best. There are other former sex workers who claimed to be Christian for a while, but they relapsed into sexual immorality and in some cases, industry work. Clearly, any Christians who took risks on them made the wrong decisions.
There are people in our churches who are voyeurs who get off on hearing about people's sinful pasts and they just love hearing testimonies that involve very descriptive past lives. Unfortunately there are inexperienced Christians who feel that they have to give detailed past lives to show what they have been "rescued" from by Christ. The unfortunate byproduct is that the listeners get free information about a person's past and they form an unconscious judgment on that person that affects that person's involvement, especially admittance to the central social faction of "respectable" church members. And the gossips have a field day spreading that information around those who love to hear juicy gossip. Wise believers don't divulge their sinful pasts when giving testimony. They concentrate on what Christ has done for them on the Cross rather than what they have done before believing the Gospel and receiving Christ as Saviour.
The first point is that not every person who claims to be a Christian is genuinely converted to Christ. John said that, "They went from us because they were not with us in the first place. If they were with us, they would not have gone from us."
That I do largely agree with. She should have had a spiritual home and refuge in the church. And there are many former sex workers who do. I don't believe that this sort of work if it's on the Internet can be kept a secret. As I have said before, I will welcome anyone into the church, but that doesn't mean I will date just anyone in the church.
I don't understand the point you're making.
One church I attended back in the early 90s had a specific ministry to sex workers. At first their thought was merely to do street preaching in the red light district, but the very first Saturday night they did so, one woman seemed to have an interest, but then walked away.
A woman's past is immaterial when it comes to choosing a life partner. It is whether the two of you are compatible and are able to happily make the same commitment to each other. A woman can be absolutely godly with a pure background and yet be incompatible and make your life hell on earth.
So you'd maybe say, when choosing a partner, you account for:
