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FLCathMom
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I think this is because it is mentioned in the Bible.I am also surprised when posters recommend that a young person simply get married or push up the wedding date if they can no longer wait for marital sex.
1 Corinthians 7:
8But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is (G)good for them if they remain (H)even as I.
9But if they do not have self-control, (I)let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
This almost uncontrollable burning usually, I would think, comes for young men. God calls us to chastity at some points in our lives, and other times he calls us to union. The uncontrollable burning could be a sign from God that one should get married. He may call that person to continence at a later period in life. I think this was very common in the past. I think long engagements would be less common especially with late teen, early twenty year old couples if they took seriously that they should wait for relations until they were married. Not that it isn’t possible- I am speaking in generalities.