سلام دوستای عزیز.این مطلبو توی مذهبی از همه نوع هم گذاشته بودم اما به نظرم اینجا مناسب تره.
درباره ی نظر مسیحیت درمورد مسایل جنسی و چگونگی کنترلو غلبه بر امیال است.
خالی از لطف نیست همه شو بخونید.
بعضی جاهاش واقعا کاربردیه و بیشترش مطابق با قرآنه.
If you believe in God you can not believe in any other Gods.There is no Hebrew or
Greek word used in the Bible that precisely refers to **************** before marriage. The Bible undeniably
condemns adultery and sexual immorality, but is **************** before marriage considered
sexually immoral? According to 1 Corinthians 7:2, “yes” is the clear answer: “But
since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own
husband.” In this verse, Paul states that marriage is the “cure” for sexual immorality. First
Corinthians 7:2 is essentially saying that, because people cannot control themselves and so many are
having immoral **************** outside of marriage, people should get married. Then they can fulfill their passions
in a moral way.
Since 1 Corinthians 7:2 clearly includes **************** before marriage in the definition of sexual immorality, all of
the Bible verses that condemn sexual immorality as being sinful also condemn **************** before marriage as
sinful. **************** before marriage is included in the biblical definition of sexual immorality. There are
numerous Scriptures that declare **************** before marriage to be a sin (Acts 15:20; 1
Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1
Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7). The Bible promotes complete abstinence before marriage. **************** between a
husband and his wife is the only form of sexual relations of which God approves (Hebrews 13:4).
Far too often we focus on the “recreation” aspect of **************** without recognizing that there is another
aspect—procreation. **************** within marriage is pleasurable, and God designed it that way. God wants men
and women to enjoy sexual activity within the confines of marriage. Song of Solomon and several other
Bible passages (such as Proverbs 5:19) clearly describe the pleasure of ****************. However, the couple must
understand that God’s intent for **************** includes producing children. Thus, for a couple to engage in ****************
before marriage is doubly wrong—they are enjoying pleasures not intended for them, and they are
taking a chance of creating a human life outside of the family structure God intended for every child.
While practicality does not determine right from wrong, if the Bible's message on **************** before marriage
were obeyed, there would be far fewer sexually transmitted diseases, far fewer abortions, far fewer
unwed mothers and unwanted pregnancies, and far fewer children growing up without both parents in
their lives. Abstinence is God’s only policy when it comes to **************** before marriage. Abstinence saves lives,
protects babies, gives sexual relations the proper value, and, most importantly, honors God.
The Bible presents several different resources to aid us in our effort to overcome
sin. In this lifetime, we will never be perfectly victorious over sin (1 John 1:8), but that should still be
our goal. With God’s help, and by following the principles of His Word, we can
progressively overcome sin and become more and more like Christ.
The first resource the Bible mentions in our effort to overcome sin is the Holy
Spirit. God has given us the Holy Spirit so we can be victorious in Christian living. God contrasts the
deeds of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:16‐25. In that passage we are called upon to
walk in the Spirit. All believers already possess the Holy Spirit, but this passage tells us that we need to
walk in the Spirit, yielding to His control. This means choosing to consistently follow the
Holy Spirit's prompting in our lives rather than following the flesh.
The difference the Holy Spirit can make is demonstrated in the life of Peter, who, before being filled
with the Holy Spirit, denied Jesus three times—and this after he had said he would follow Christ to the
death. After being filled with the Spirit, he spoke openly and strongly to the Jews at Pentecost.
We walk in the Spirit as we try not to quench the Spirit's promptings (as spoken of in 1 Thessalonians
5:19) and seek instead to be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18‐21). How is one filled with the Holy
Spirit? First of all, it is of God's choosing even as it was in the Old Testament. He selected individuals to
accomplish a work that He wanted done and filled them with His Spirit (Genesis 41:38; Exodus 31:3;
Numbers 24:2; 1 Samuel 10:10). There is evidence in Ephesians 5:18‐21 and Colossians 3:16 that God
chooses to fill those who are filling themselves with the Word of God. This leads us to the second
resource.
The Word of God, the Bible, says that God has given us His Word to equip us for every
good work (2 Timothy 3:16‐17). It teaches us how to live and what to believe, it reveals to us
when we have chosen wrong paths, it helps us get back on the right path, and it helps us to stay
on that path. Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the Word of God is living and powerful, able to penetrate
to our hearts to root out and overcome the deepest sins of heart and attitude. The psalmist talks
about its life‐changing power in‐depth in Psalm 119. Joshua was told that the key to success in
overcoming his enemies was not to forget this resource but instead to meditate on it day and night and
obey it. This he did, even when what God commanded did not make sense militarily, and this was the
key to his victory in his battles for the Promised Land.
The Bible(and The holy Quran) is a resource that we too often treat lightly. We give
token service to it by carrying our Bibles to church or reading a daily devotional or a chapter a
day, but we fail to memorize it, meditate on it, or apply it to our lives; we fail to
confess the sins it reveals or praise God for the gifts it reveals to us. When it comes to the Bible, we are
often either anorexic or bulimic. We either take in just enough to keep us alive spiritually
by eating from the Word (but never ingesting enough to be healthy, thriving
Christians), or we come to feed often but never meditate on it long enough to get
spiritual nutrition from it.
It is important, if you have not made a habit of daily studying and memorizing God's Word, that
you begin to do so. Some find it helpful start a journal. Make it a habit not to leave the Word until
you have written down something you have gained from it. Some record prayers to God, asking Him to
help them change in the areas that He has spoken to them about. The Bible is the tool the Spirit uses in
our lives (Ephesians 6:17), an essential and major part of the armor that God gives us to
fight our spiritual battles (Ephesians 6:12‐18).
A third crucial resource in our battle against sin is prayer. Again, it is a resource that
Christians often give lip service to but make poor use of. We have prayer meetings, times of prayer, etc.,
but we do not use prayer in the same way as the early church (Acts 3:1; 4:31; 6:4; 13:1‐3). Paul
repeatedly mentions how he prayed for those he ministered to. God has given us wonderful promises
concerning prayer (Matthew 7:7‐11; Luke 18:1‐8; John 6:23‐27; 1 John 5:14‐15), and Paul includes
prayer in his passage on preparing for spiritual battle (Ephesians 6:18).
How important is prayer to overcoming sin in our lives? We have Christ's words to Peter in the
Garden of Gethsemane, just before Peter's denial. As Jesus prays, Peter is sleeping. Jesus wakes him and
says, “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body
is weak” (Matthew 26:41). We, like Peter, want to do what is right but are not finding the strength. We
need to follow God's admonition to keep seeking, keep knocking, keep asking—and He will give us the
strength that we need (Matthew 7:7). Prayer is not a magic formula. Prayer is simply acknowledging our
own limitations and God's inexhaustible power and turning to Him for that strength to do what He
wants us to do, not what we want to do (1 John 5:14‐15).
A fourth resource in our war to conquer sin is the church, the fellowship of other
believers. When Jesus sent His disciples out, He sent them out two‐by‐two (Matthew 10:1). The
missionaries in Acts did not go out one at a time, but in groups of two or more. Jesus commands us not
to forsake the assembling of ourselves together but to use that time for encouraging one another in
love and good works (Hebrews 10:24). He tells us to confess our faults to one another (James 5:16). In
the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, we are told that as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens
another (Proverbs 27:17). There is strength in numbers (Ecclesiastes 4:11‐12).
Many Christians find that having an accountability partner can be a huge benefit in overcoming stubborn
sins. Having another person who can talk with you, pray with you, encourage you, and even rebuke you
is of great value. Temptation is common to us all (1 Corinthians 10:13). Having an accountability partner
or an accountability group can give us the final dose of encouragement and motivation we need to
overcome even the most stubborn of sins.
Sometimes victory over sin comes quickly. Other times, victory comes more slowly. God has
promised that as we make use of His resources, He will progressively bring about
change in our lives. We can persevere in our efforts to overcome sin because we
know that He is faithful to His promises.
While there is not a Bible verse that specifically states we commit a sinful act each day, we do have
verses that remind us that we have inherited the capacity to sin at any moment. "Sin entered the world
through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned"
(Romans 5:12). "Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me" (Psalm 51:5).
In addition, we have commands that we know we never keep, much less on a daily basis. For instance,
who can claim to love God with all his heart, mind and soul every moment of every day? No
one. Yet, that is the greatest commandment (Matthew 22:36‐38). Failing to love God completely
at all times is a daily sin for all Christians.
We also have a verse that warns us of the deceitfulness of our old sinful nature, which in a sense is
warning us of the potential, if not the likelihood, of daily sin. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). Even the apostle Paul was frustrated with his
own battle against indwelling sin. "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another
law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
which is in my members" (Romans 7:22‐23). This capacity to sin led him to cry in desperation, “What a
wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:24).
Solomon knew full well that he and all men not only have the potential for sin, but that we all exercise
that capacity routinely. As he stated in his prayer at the dedication of the temple, "If they sin against
thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not)" (1 Kings 8:46). And Solomon spoke of it again in the book of
Ecclesiastes: "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not" (Ecclesiastes
7:20). Again, while these verses do not unequivocally indicate daily sin, they certainly warn us against
the pride of saying at any moment that we have no sin.
The good news is that we will not have to strive forever against daily sin. One day
we will be in heaven with our Savior and will be freed from the presence and
power of sin, just as we have already been freed from its penalty.
Spiritual growth is the process of becoming more and more like Jesus Christ(and for we,
muslims, like muhammed(pbuh)). When we place our faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit begins the process
of making us more like Him, conforming us to His image. Spiritual growth is perhaps best described in 2
Peter 1:3‐8, which tells us that by God's power we have “everything we need” to live lives of godliness,
which is the goal of spiritual growth. Notice that what we need comes “through our knowledge of
Him,” which is the key to obtaining everything we need. Our knowledge of Him comes from the
Word, given to us for our edification and growth.
There are two lists in Galatians 5:19‐23. Verses 19‐21 list the “acts of the flesh.” These are the things
that identified our lives before we came to Christ for salvation. The acts of the flesh are the activities we
are to confess, repent of, and, with God’s help, overcome. As we experience spiritual growth, fewer and
fewer of the “acts of the flesh” will be evident in our lives. The second list is the “fruit of the Spirit”
(verses 22‐23). These are what should characterize our lives now that we have experienced salvation in
Jesus Christ. Spiritual growth is identified by the fruit of the Spirit becoming increasingly evident in a
believer’s life.
When the transformation of salvation takes place, spiritual growth begins. The Holy Spirit indwells us
(John 14:16‐17). We are new creatures in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). The old nature is replaced with a
new one (Romans 6‐7). Spiritual growth is a life‐long process that
depends on our study and application of God's Word (2
Timothy 3:16‐17) and our walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16‐26). As we seek spiritual growth, we should
pray to God and ask for wisdom concerning the areas He desires us to grow in. We can ask God to
increase our faith and knowledge of Him. God desires for us to grow spiritually, and He has given us all
we need to experience spiritual growth. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can overcome sin and steadily
become more like our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hope this helps you.