Hurricane Heroes | Government may have been tripped up by Katrina and Rita, but the Southern Baptists, among others, are standing tall. (November 1, 2007)
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Although STOP has many difficult standards the necessary sacrifices and training needed to follow this Biblical standard can only lead to more freedom. The combination of people making personal decisions for purity and the training on how to treat women is presented in a well thought out plan, STOP. I am looking forward to the upcoming Global Summit on AIDS & the Church at the end of November at Saddleback Church where more training, tools, and guidelines on how to get more involved with HIV will be presented. I hope you all will join me there - find out more details at www.purposedriven.com/globalsummit.
Billy Reed
Posted: November 05, 2007 4:47 PM
I hope this does not get edited but AIDS is transmitted primarily by anal intercourse. It does not get transmitted by "skin rubbing" which tranmits most other sexually transmitted problems. Teach people to not have anal intercourse and you will rapidly slow the spread of AIDS. This is not to be considered an endorsement of sex outside of marriage. The Bible says no to that idea from beginning to end.
Greg
Posted: November 05, 2007 3:21 PM
STOP as THE END to AIDS might only create cognitive dissonance, which encourages fatalistic non-compliance. If we married as teens, no sex until marriage would be a practical command and expectation, but we marry fairly late in life. Teen marriages are quite discouraged. Almost every woman in the Bible had been a teen mother, or wished she had been. How shall we live now?
Career comes first, today, then marriage. Some people have given up on ever affording the ideal; creating a sexual anomie.
Seeing a vast desert before you, a decade or two of unwanted chastity could tacitly encourage a fatalism about sex...to be swept away in forbidden romance, to fall hopelessly and helplessly into a love discouraged by society's seemingly unrealizable ideal.
Also, it's one thing to tell teens what to do, but another thing to tell adults what to do. Slowing AIDS in complex adults is better than accidentally encouraging reckless non-compliance to ideals of purity.
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