MembersVirginity and Fidelity: A Messianic Virgin’s Perspective

Navigating a world that doesn’t wait and thinks you’re pathetic if you do.

By Oriel Moran | | Topics: MESSIANIC JEWS, Bible
Modern culture has deceived us into believing virginity is a fool's game. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90
Modern culture has deceived us into believing virginity is a fool's game. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90

I have a guilty pleasure – I watch Love is Blind

It’s a Netflix show that takes 15 men and women who date and (some) get engaged without ever seeing each other, and then walk towards one of the most important days in a person’s life – a marriage ceremony, there, in the presence of family and friends, they choose ‘I do’ or ‘I don’t.’

The men and women hang out separately between dates and talk about all things love. This is where things took a turn for me.

As the guys stood around drinking, one asked: “Is anyone a virgin here?”

One lone guy raised his hand, followed by restrained shock from the others and an interview snippet of him talking about how every woman wants her prince charming, and that he’s willing to ‘wait for it.’

“Wow – now that’s a real man,” I thought to myself. It’s the type of guy I, as a...

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2 responses to “Virginity and Fidelity: A Messianic Virgin’s Perspective”

  1. Carl Gove says:

    Very well said. 👍

  2. psalm100al says:

    Excellent article, thank you and under Almighty God that is how it should be for our betterment. I know of a few young couples who have kept themselves for their intended and their marriages are much stronger than secular marriages, which fall apart at the slightest thing, and provoked by the Devils Vision, the grass is greener on the other side. NOT!

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