Evangelical's Struggle to Address Premarital Sex & Abortion
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Evangelical's Struggle to Address Premarital Sex & Abortion
That is the title from the article from the U.S. News. This article mentions that 80 percent of unmarried evangelicals commit fornication and that 30 percent of then who get accidentally pregnant have abortions! The underlying problem is, in my opinion, the false Satanic inspired doctrine that one can be saved by grace alone without trying to earnestly keep the commandments in order to be saved as Christ stated. Christ also stated in regards to the true followers of Him, that "by their fruits ye shall know them"!
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This is no way suggests that the LDS population doesn't have similar statistics, by the way.
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Re: Evangelical's Struggle to Address Premarital Sex & Abort
gdemetz wrote:That is the title from the article from the U.S. News. This article mentions that 80 percent of unmarried evangelicals commit fornication and that 30 percent of then who get accidentally pregnant have abortions! The underlying problem is, in my opinion, the false Satanic inspired doctrine that one can be saved by grace alone without trying to earnestly keep the commandments in order to be saved as Christ stated. Christ also stated in regards to the true followers of Him, that "by their fruits ye shall know them"!
The article is here, and researchers compiling the data attribute it to Evangelical teens being ignorant about birth control, and gdemetz is full of crap about why this problem is occurring. To the extent that the article draws conclusions about doctrinal problems with Evangelicals, it is not the idea that we can do whatever we want and be saved (which mischaracterizes what Evangelical Christians believe). According to to gdemetz's article, it is teaching that pre-marital sex is a sin that is a large source of the problem.
In other news, 90% of the rapes in Provo go unreported because of LDS stigmas about sex. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/5150 ... tml?pg=all
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Darth, it is OBVIOUSLY satan. Everyone knows that!
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Re: Evangelical's Struggle to Address Premarital Sex & Abort
gdemetz wrote:That is the title from the article from the U.S. News. This article mentions that 80 percent of unmarried evangelicals commit fornication and that 30 percent of then who get accidentally pregnant have abortions! The underlying problem is, in my opinion, the false Satanic inspired doctrine that one can be saved by grace alone without trying to earnestly keep the commandments in order to be saved as Christ stated. Christ also stated in regards to the true followers of Him, that "by their fruits ye shall know them"!
80%? I guess by their bowls of fruit they know each other.
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gdemetz wrote:Christ also stated in regards to the true followers of Him, that "by their fruits ye shall know them"!
So, if the fruits of Mormonism are a multi billion dollar, loss making, upmarket commercial venture in a very small corner of a less than impoverished Utah City, how does that show us that Mormon Leaders are true followers of Christ?
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.”
Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!"
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Drifting wrote:gdemetz wrote:Christ also stated in regards to the true followers of Him, that "by their fruits ye shall know them"!
So, if the fruits of Mormonism are a multi billion dollar, loss making, upmarket commercial venture in a very small corner of a less than impoverished Utah City, how does that show us that Mormon Leaders are true followers of Christ?
Because Chik-a-fila is delicious to the taste and very desirable.
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Wonderful. Dozens of talks and lessons are forthcoming referencing this article as even more evidence that the church is true.
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Yea Darth, the truth hurts. Can anyone seriously believe that the LDS have similar stats?!?
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Re: Evangelical's Struggle to Address Premarital Sex & Abort
gdemetz wrote:That is the title from the article from the U.S. News. This article mentions that 80 percent of unmarried evangelicals commit fornication and that 30 percent of then who get accidentally pregnant have abortions! The underlying problem is, in my opinion, the false Satanic inspired doctrine that one can be saved by grace alone without trying to earnestly keep the commandments in order to be saved as Christ stated. Christ also stated in regards to the true followers of Him, that "by their fruits ye shall know them"!
One must also consider the reality of when an evengelical became saved? Was it before or after the commission of such mistakes for the most part? Sinful people are saved everyday and one cannot change his or her past mistakes. God only forgives them and covers the sin. It is man who still remembers them...