Ellen Gould White
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Ellen Gould White über: "What does EGW say about sex before marriage"
Answer
Ellen White strongly warns against sexual activity before marriage, calling it a dangerous temptation that ruins soul and body for time and eternity. She classifies premarital sex as one of Satan's counterfeits of holy marriage and admonishes that intimate relationships must either be ended or lead to marriage so as not to bring reproach upon the cause of God. Unchaste familiarity, "stolen interviews," and premarital passions lead to character deterioration, immorality, and unhappy marriages.
Sexual Activity Before Marriage (Counsel to an Adventist Youth)
»Few temptations are more dangerous or more deadly to young men than the temptation to sensuality, and none, if yielded to, will prove so decidedly ruinous to soul and body for time and eternity. ... No young man should do what you have done at N. unless he is married to her; and I was very much surprised to see that you did not feel this matter more keenly.«
Satan's Counterfeits of Marriage Privileges
»For every lawful, God-given privilege Satan has a counterfeit. The holy, pure thoughts he seeks to replace with the impure. For the sanctity of marital love he would substitute license, infidelity, excess, and perversion; premarital sex, adultery, animalism in and out of marriage, and homosexuality.«
Low Passions and an Unhealthy Mind
»In the name of the Lord, either cease your attentions to Mattie F. or marry her—do not bring reproach upon the cause of God. ... The intimacy formed with Mattie did not have the tendency to bring you nearer to the Lord or to sanctify you through the truth.«
Vigilance Against Licentiousness
»It is the spirit of the age to despise rebuke, to follow inclination, to jest and joke and be merry in pleasure with young ladies; and the result has been injury to character, encouragement of impurity, licentiousness, immorality, and marriages that have ruined the usefulness and efficiency of men and women who had capabilities and talent, but who after their unwise marriages were unable to rise to any noble heights.«
An Appeal to Mothers – Secret Vice and Early Attachments
»The great cause of these physical, mental, and moral evils is the secret vice which inflames the passions, excites the imagination, and leads to licentiousness. ... Early attachments, when formed without the consent of parents, have rarely proved happy. The youthful affections should be restrained until age and experience shall make it honorable and safe to unloose them.«
Original Sources (English)
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