The Questions are: Is kissing right in a dating relationship? If it is not right, is it a sin? This is a response to an enquiry from some friends who are dissatisfied with another article on the subject matter. I will therefore write to compliment what has already been said in another article here.
Premarital Kissing is not right because kissing is an expression of secure affection and intimacy between married or marrying couples. Any relationship outside of marriage may have so much affection and intimacy but it is never secure because it can be masked with much deceit and make-belief. How can a girl be so sure the guy that told her, "i love you", is not only repeating what he just told five other girls of whom she knows nothing, making her the sixth person to be told? When it is outside married relationship, deceit is inevitable, so it is not secured. If you used kissing to express anything outside the marital, you are expressing nothing but deceit. Secondly, if the relationship does not work out, then a vital part of your person have been shared with a stranger, like a thief, your affection has been stolen and someone may live in the regret of that for a lifetime. You therefore want to be sure the relationship is secured in marital commitment first.
It is also not right because, if premarital sex is wrong, then kissing is a downroad to that wrong path and you don't wanna thread that path. How can you say you don't want waters splashed on you, yet you hang around on river banks?
I'm not too confident that a relationship can endorse kissing and will not keep graduating to unpredictable levels of romances. In marriage relationship, kissing is a foreplay that has the potential of arousing for real sexual act.
Thirdly, kissing is an expression of any kind of love but sexual love and since even a married person can not stand his or her spouse kissing another person, then no single person is permitted to do it. Just as in premarital sex, if any single person can kiss another person to whom he or she is not married without a sense of guilt, then that person, when married will have a low concern about not kissing another person outside his or her marriage relationship; that means, he can also cheat on his or her spouse.
Premarital Kissing is a sin because it is licentiousness and debauchery which the Bible regards as works of the flesh in Galatians 5:19 following. Those words have the idea of unrestrained passion and selfish expression of lust without consideration of the feelings of others or toiling with another person's emotion without a preparedness to satisfy it all the way. There you find premarital kissing.
Also, in the book of Song of Songs 2:7, the Lord says, do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires which points to "arousal or awakening" of sexual passion at a time when you can not allow it to run its full course wihtout. For ladies, the beauty and value of a woman is as described in Song of Songs 4:12, "You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride, you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain". Every new groom must be able to say that of his new bride, that has truly been kept not just by not having sex before marriage but more importantly by not allowing strangers to climb her fence over to pluck virtues of affection and intimacy that she ought to preserve for her groom away through premarital kissing.
The evil of premarital sex also apply to premarital kissing. Sex before marriage is a sin, not just of the act but of the attitude. Matt 5, Jesus said, looking at a woman lustfully is adultery, how much worse is kissing that woman then, who is not yet your own fully by marriage vows?
The judgment is the same therefore, God will judge the immoral and the unclean in the same way. Gal.5:21 concludes that those who do such things, will not inherit the kingdom of God. Take note that he said "such things", similar things, even when not precisely mentioned.
Whoever has a desire to keep from sin does his or her own soul much good. But people will always rebel against the Truth because it is not convenient for them. It is wise to choses right things even when it is not convenient but it is definitely profitable in every way!
True love is considerate of others and would not lure them to sin but will seek the highest good of the other, that is the way to express love, not with the passions of kissing, necking, petting or anything at all that can lead the road to sex, because they belong to the family of immorality.
Love you,
Felix Bamirin
Singles in God's Network
SIGNET
Responses are welcome.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
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