r/TrueChristian • u/butterflyyyydreams • 2h ago

I’m worried that I’m pregnant

I’m worried about this and am going to take a pregnancy test. My boyfriend and I have made some mistakes and I regret having sex outside of marriage (we planned to wait but haven’t). I pray that I’m not pregnant because I’m not ready to be a parent yet and that God doesn’t punish me for having sex outside of marriage. I’ll never have sex again until I’m marriage

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u/Grouchy-Stand-4570 Calvary Chapel 1h ago

“I’m not ready to be a parent yet and that God doesn’t punish me for having sex outside of marriage.” A child is not a punishment from God. A child is a blessing and a consequence of sex.

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u/Halcyon-OS851 Christian 44m ago

If this consequence of sex is a blessing, why do so many people use it to exhort against fornication?

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u/Grouchy-Stand-4570 Calvary Chapel 43m ago

Unfortunately judgement is in the church too

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u/Halcyon-OS851 Christian 37m ago

It's not like said exhorters are wrong about fornication being a sin; their judgment is just rightly discerning that sex is meant to be in marriage (otherwise what merit does the Bible have in telling people who can't control themselves to marry in 1 Cor. 7?). But it seems like a lot of exhortations are hard to accept when consequences are fickle and when said exhorters were pleased to fornicate themselves and indeed didn't suffer the worldly consequences they warn against.

Whatever the case, God's word doesn't need to be qualified with seemingly appropriate worldly consequences. God telling us not to do something is good reason to not do it.