I have this thought that married life takes a major commitment in which I not interested in taking. I am only interested in my commitment to Jesus and other believer. So as May 25, 2020 at 5:11pm pst. I am never getting married.
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It is lonely being single but as a single person I would prefer to have one hour out of my day, solely to myself, to pray and read the Bible. Any relationship I have would be a threat to this.
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To this I want to say "Don't be hasty with your vows to the Lord".
(This is opposite of the position I often have where I play Devil's Advocate that celibacy is biblical etc. for many Protestants that don't have any appreciation for it).
You may be right in this. Sometimes I think for myself, I might have been better settling for a position like that earlier in life. People often torture themselves with longing over unrequited love etc. Anyway I wish you the best. But maybe pursue the course your on without tying yourself down to some kind of official vow, at least if you do so, do so after a few years of deliberation like how many monks wait a few years before taking their final vows.
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I am not going to raise kids because I am not getting married. I am taking the lifetime celibate vow. Besides the Bible does not say that every person should get married, in fact it says a person is better single. I have waited over 10 years praying and looking to Jesus so it is time for me to take this vow. I am also after this short time on this form leaving and going on with my life
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Heck, that's good for you! Sometimes, God calls us to be single
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I can definitely understand that reasoning on "never" getting married. But it 'is' true you should never say never (even though that sounds paradoxical , and never say always.
, and never say always.
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I'm so torn on this too because the loneliness is quite debilitating.
What is more profitable: making connections with self for 10 years that work to be constructive, or investing 10 years into a relationship that will likely (statistically) end in divorce? I'm with OP; I, personally, would never get married or have children either. I am celibate by choice.
The loneliness is well worth the security of knowing your partner won't transmit disease, try to murder you, bankrupt you, or that your offspring will be born into this type of world and have the risk of dying without any type of salvation. There are already enough humans on this plane of existence who want to transmit disease to us, murder us, bankrupt us or railroad our salvation that don't look us on our face every day and tell us they love us. The Most High is sufficient to fill in human loneliness.
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I have an image of God reading your post and then shaking His head in disbelief at how anyone could write what you have just written!
God didnt create us so that we have to hide from one another my friend!
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To be honest, I never thought I'd say this in my entire life, but it's quite an easy choice between Jesus Christ and a partner. I see so many people, even on CF, juggle between trying to maintain their faith in the midst of a relationship between themselves and an unbelieving partner, and I'm like, the choice shouldn't be that difficult.
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Is it negative, or pointing out the obvious? I think we let emotion rule us too much, which is why 50% of marriages in the States end in divorce.
At some point, humanity has to stop ignoring its ugly parts so that we can actually fix them. Stop running from negativity, or it will own you: you wont know how to deal with negativity until you are forced to confront it. Reality can be very negative.
Pretending that the number of people that murder, bankrupt or transmit physical or spiritual disease is low or nonexistent won't make people stop doing these things: it will embolden those savage entities to believe they can take advantage of others. If you are already content alone, why would you get into a relationship? Western romanticism? Love (do we know what this is)? People lie, cheat, kill and rape for fun. We turn both eyes blind to ISMs, fiscal divides, the planet screaming out itself... 40,000 people willingly chose to murder themselves and no one really asks why - instead we classify them and act as if the whole system isn't sick. We continue to sacrifice souls for our mutated idea of progress - ignoring all the bodies and resources consumed to get to this point.
If someone wants to devote their life to the Most High instead of the world, then more power to them.
Now, as far as kids, I will not bring one into a world with the aforementioned "qualities". If that is negative then that's an excellent reason for me to do exactly as I said (and not further pollute the world with negativity).
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