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"🔥For most of history, marriage was family-directed. In arranged marriages, families largely determined the match. Courtship gave men and women more opportunity to know one another, but it remained marriage-oriented, family-directed and supervised. Then came modern dating. Dating radically changed the system. Young men and women increasingly chose relationships independently and spending unsupervised time alone together became normal. And then we wonder why premarital sex became normal. The Bible doesn't tell us to repeatedly place ourselves in sexual temptation and test our self-control. It says: 'Flee fornication.' — 1 Corinthians 6:18 So who bears the blame? Young men do. A man who pressures a woman for sex is responsible for his actions. Young women do too. A woman who willingly has sex before marriage is responsible for her choice. But the greatest failure is the failure of fathers. Fathers once understood that protecting their daughters' purity was part of their responsibility as heads of their homes. They didn't merely say, 'Don't fornicate.' They established boundaries to keep their children away from sexual temptation. Today fathers routinely allow their daughters to spend hours alone with young men they're attracted to and emotionally attached to—and simply say, 'I trust you.' Why put them in the very temptation Scripture tells them to flee? A father cannot guarantee his daughter's virginity. Sons and daughters can reject their fathers' teaching and circumvent their protection. They remain responsible before God for their choices. But there's a huge difference between children disobeying their fathers' boundaries and fathers abandoning those boundaries altogether. We didn't just have a sexual revolution. Fathers stopped guarding the gate. 📖 Why God Created Two Genders: The Case for Biblical Gender Roles — available on Amazon. Click the link in [OP bio].
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