Why are American Christians really into waiting till marriage?

[Anonymous]

No hate pls, I don't want to disrespect anyone's religious beliefs, I'm simply very curious. I'm Eastern European and despite us being Christian (I consider myself Christian too) no one here cares about waiting till marriage. I truly believe that the whole practice was done simply so people back in day could ensure that the firstborn child is theirs. I know this also exists in other religions and is practiced by other countries as well, but I'm specifically interested in why its so popular in American Christians and not in Christians in other places of the world in the 21st century. Once again, I don't mean to disrespect anyone nor shame them for their choice, I'm simply curious because I've noticed this when talking about sex on here it gets brought up very often. Are you a Christian waiting for marriage? And are you American? Is there non American Christians who do this too? And how often? I simply want to learn more thank you :)

[WadeDanielSmith2]

Premarital sex is punishable by Death and Hell in the Old Testament, and in the New Testmaent your Apostle Paul said those who commit Fornication DO NOT go to Heaven, and in your book of Revelation, John said Fornicators, Drug addicts, and false accusers "All Liars" (Purjured Persons would be a better translation) go to the Lake of Fire, which is worse than Hell itself.

If you have premaritatl sex you are NOT a real Christian, Muslim, or Jew, you are a false convert. Again, Premarital sex is a mortal sin in all Abrahamic religions.

And by the way, about 95% of American so-called "Christians" are having premarital sex too, they just lie about it regularly, because they are false converts too.

YOu fake "Christians" cannot name two books of the Bible and have never even read one book of the Bible, because if you had, you'd be forced to admit you are NOT a real believer in God.

[WadeDanielSmith2]

Hey fake Christians. The First three tings the Apostle James told new converts to Christianity are this.

1) Do not eat anything sacrificed to an idol.
2) Do not eat blood
Including blood soup that fake "chrstian" Europeans eat with some dishes, which means don't eat rare or medium rare meat either, because that's blood and not cooked properly.
3) Do not commit any form of fornication, including Premarital sex, prostitution, and homosexuality.

Those are the three most fundamental laws of "Good works" in Christianity.

Any so-called Pastor or Prophet who tells you the Law of Moses was done away with by the death and resurrection of Jesus is in Error, and that includes the Apostle Paul. Jesus himself said NOT ONE JOT OR TITTLE SHALL IN ANY WISE PASS AWAY FROM THE LAW... UNTIL ALL THINGS ARE FULFILLED.

One of the ten commandments is "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and here the term "adultery" refers to ALL sexual sins, including premarital sex.

If a person commits premarital sex, they are REQUIRED in the Law to get married, and if they refuse to be married they are to be STONED TO DEATH.

[WadeDanielSmith2]

By the way, James letter can be read in the Book of Acts.

It paraphrases from the Book of Leviticus, which is Old Testament Law, which again, JESUS SAID THE LAW WOULD NEVER BE DONE AWAY WITH.

Any anybody violating the Ten Commandments from Exodus or any of the laws in the rest of the Torah IS NOT A REAL BELIEVER IN GOD.

[WadeDanielSmith2]

Anybody who has not read Exodus 20 for themselves and has not read Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy for themselves IS NOT A REAL BELIEVER IN GOD.

There is not such thing as "Epiphany" in the Old Testament. You are saved by good works, according to Moses and Ezekiel, NOT a profession of faith.

Even Jesus said, "Not everyone who says unto me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter into the King of Heaven, but he who DOETH the will of the Father.

In modern Engish we no longer have conjugations, but Elizabethan English conserves Conjugations from foreign languations, and "DOETH" is a Present Progressive verb, which means you are continually DOING THE RIGHT THING, and "tithing" and praying and putting ashes on yoru head (after getting drunk the previous day,) DOES NOT AND CANNOT SAVE YOU.

THE SOUL THAT SINNETH IT SHALL DIE.

Again, that's a present progressive verb. Nobody's perfect, but if you live a lifestyle of breaking the Ten Commandments or any of the least of the laws in the rest of the Torah, you WILL NOT go to Heaven when you die. Again, that actually excludes the super-majority of all contemporary Christians, Muslims, and Jews, because all of them violate everythign short of murder and rape every day of their lives, and the only person they are fooling is their own selves, they aren't fooling God, and they don't fool me.

[WadeDanielSmith2]

Also, on a related note, for people who drink alcohol to drunkeness on any sort of regular basis, you are NOT going to Heaven either.

Read the Book of Proverbs. Drunkeness is a mortal sin. In fact, drinking alcohol for any reason other than as a medical sedative when you are about to die, OR a certain feast day in Numbers you can drink ONE cup of wine, but drinking alcohol for ANY other reason is ALWAYS a sin, and ALL recreatonal drugs are WITCHCRAFT and is a mortal sin.

About 85% of Americans are "casual/social drinkers" and 40% of Americans meet the clinical definition of being an Alcoholic (and the Biblical definition of Drunkeness too).

So literally you can say based on the Bilbical laws that 95% of Americans calling themselves "Christians" will NOT go to Heaven when they die... according to common sense laws in both the Old and New Testament.

And your God Jesus said FEW PEOPLE would be saved for real, that "Many" went Hell when they died and FEW went to heaven when they died.

Why? Because you are deceived by the devil, and you've never even read one book of the Bible, but you call yourself a "Christian, Muslim, or Jew".

Stop lying to yourself and everyone else. IN case you didn't know, lying is always a sin... it's also not even acceptable for police or a military spy to lie to somoen for any reason.

[PrudentGuy]

I'm Asian and although agnostic, was in Christian faith during my teens.

I would say, here, Christians wait. So are most culturally. And for those who don't, if the guy impregnate the girl, he will marry her.

Its a culture until, I think, the mid 1980s where Western "liberialism" was noticed here and lifestyle started to change.

Personally, i would classify myself as "very liberated" here, but I think many think as me in the West.

And i think the liberals are loud online. The promiscuous lifestyle is but a fraction of the worlds population.

This is because the conservatives tend to avoid these sites and reserved on sex talks.

Hence the promiscuous appears to overwhelmed the conservatives online.

These are my observations.

[JenzLab]

I am a non American Christian who believes in sex after marriage. The reason why I believe in sex after marriage, and why so many other Christians follow this, is because it is less likely for a broken family.

This is only in the case when a person sleeps with multiple people outside of marriage, it can lead to children growing up without a father or a mother. Or are in mixed families of half siblings. It was never in Gods vision for it to be this way.

That is the only reason I can think of. If you mean that the sex is before marriage but it was always with the same person and no one else... I guess it's more for the stability and commitment. In Gods eyes, sex is also a spiritual bond as well as physical and this bond can't be broken even if you move on to someone else.. in Gods eyes, sex is the permanent bond and marriage of two people.

[Anonymous]

Waiting until marriage is the safest thing to do as STDs are at pandemic levels. I may have started off waiting because of my faith; but science gave me plenty of reasons to stick to it.

[JimboGB]

I think you're touching on cultural Christians (yourself) and devout Christians. If you haven't heard about no sex before marriage that's a terrible indictment on whichever church you've been going too. It also goes to show you haven't fully read the Bible, which is your own responsibility. 1. 1 Corinthians 7:2
“But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.”

[Derekk]

It's cultural. A lot of it was drilled into them by their fathers because their dads wanted to have sex with them, and they'd get jealous when they started dating other guys.

[Anonymous]

Chastity is an important Christian value and if your church doesn't value it is a watered down version of Christianity. Europe experienced this a long time ago (this is why the pilgrims left for America); and American churches are going through this now.

[Anonymous]

I also am from Europe and before i met American people i didn't even know that was a thing lmao. It seems that a lot of American Christians are really waiting till marriage.

[WadeDanielSmith2]

If you think that, you're ignorant of American culture.

95% of American "christians" don't know basic tenets of Christiantiy, cannot name two books of the Bible, and have never read one book of the Bible and regularly commit premarital sex.

I don't know what myth you've heard of American christians waiting utnil marriage.

Based on double-blind surveys of High School students in America, 50% of all High School students have already had 7 or more sex partners by the time they graduate from High School, and about 95% have already had at least one sex partner by then... even though 70% of Americans CLAIM to be "Christian, Muslim, or Jew".

IN fact, 90% of people calling themselves "Christians" don't actually believe in Jesus at all.

By th eway, I was a devout Christian for the first 36 years of my life, and I've never had premarital sex. I'm no longer a Christian, I'm a deist now, but I still believe in sex only after marriage.

Did you know animals are more chaste than humans? Most animals mate with one partner for life.

[hknmhmn4]

I myself is a European Christian and I’m too into waiting till marriage... but as for Americans on this website, most Americans on this app are atheist as far as I see... I saw a few Christians here

[In_Trance]

You can check history; this is a control tactic. This is the church attempting to control the actions of it's followers

[Dargil]

Because they believe the doctrine.