{"id":8100,"date":"2007-01-13T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T02:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2019-08-22T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T01:47:17","slug":"your-site-has-helped-me-understand-gods-intention-for-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/your-site-has-helped-me-understand-gods-intention-for-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Your site has helped me understand God&#8217;s intention for sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Thank you for your site. It helped me understand what God intended me to fulfill in my life when it comes to sex. I have found many sites that have twisted God&#8217;s words about the boundaries of sex. I&#8217;m very happy I found your site because I was getting very mixed up with what people are saying about this issue. Your words are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;re very welcome. I looked at the site you referenced (removed in this posting). I&#8217;m glad you saw it for what it was: a twisting of Scriptures. Speaking of Paul&#8217;s writings, Peter said, &#8220;<em>in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures<\/em>&#8221; (II Peter 3:16). The site was a classic example of people deciding in advance what they wanted to do and then sprinkle a few scriptures into their text to make it appear to support their assertions. The fact that the result contradicts the Scriptures doesn&#8217;t bother them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Thank you for your site. It helped me understand what God intended me to fulfill in my life when it comes to sex. I have found many sites that have twisted God&#8217;s words about the boundaries of sex. I&#8217;m very happy I found your site because I was getting very mixed up with what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,63],"class_list":["post-8100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22179,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/your-web-site-helped-my-wife-understand-that-sex-is-clean-for-married-couples\/","url_meta":{"origin":8100,"position":0},"title":"Your web site helped my wife understand that sex is clean for married couples","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I would like you to know that your web site helped my wife very much today in understanding sex is clean for married couples and that sex is good because of Him! 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They never open up and talk to us so clearly like I found in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32238,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/thank-you-for-your-article-on-sex-before-marriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":8100,"position":4},"title":"Thank you for your article on sex before marriage","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I would just like to thank you for your article on sex before marriage. I am a young teen, and I was lost before I found your site. Thank you so much! I will never forget you! Answer: Glad to have helped. 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