• Photo, Coquitlam today, July 8, 2022
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• I am philosophically, pro-life.
• I think a lot of Global News is liberal propaganda when it comes to social commentary.
• But I will agree with the observation heard more than once recently on certain Global News reports, that in the US, the minority is dictating morality to the majority.
• Pickup/Hookup culture, for one, dictates, abortion on demand as a 'right'.
• In contrast, I respectfully hold to a biblical worldview, within a Reformed tradition.
• It is also not my purpose as a Christian, to attempt to force secular powers that be, to have certain laws.
• I reason that the secular, liberal powers that be, will find legal methods to insure that abortion on demand stays a right in America.
• For the most part, anyway.
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• Recently, a good friend provided, IMHO, the best objection to large age gap relationships.
• This is an old one to me.
• With older male, younger female, the female will likely end up a widow.
• Agreed.
• Without a personal attack, my friend stated it would be selfish of me to seek a large age gap relationship.
• I disagree.
• As noted on my first website, I still have procreating abilities (possibilities, not certainties at any age) past 35 years of age, so often a man's situation is different.
• By the way, is this not nature's (God's) way of stating that age gap relationships, older male, are natural? But I digress.
• I also do not have the typical experience of someone my age.
• I am not aged.
• By God's grace, I have continually been much younger for my age, as an adult.
• My friend had no counter...
• I do not have an age rule.
• Other than legal age and in Christ, that we have mutual, spiritual, intellectual, physical, mutual attraction.
• Only intellectual women would find me interesting long-term, for the most part.
• As I heard an online teacher state once (paraphrased), intelligence makes up for age.
• An intelligent woman has every social opportunity to reject a large age gap relationship.
• Socially, I am open, but not an aggressor, whatsoever.
• Only take what is given to you (a thought while praying).
• An intellectual Christian woman today, has no guarantee she will meet anyone, of any age, that is relatable for a long-term marriage.
• It is a reasonable possibility that like me with my wide range to find someone relatable, a younger woman may need to prayerfully have a similar view.
• A career woman may not need a husband early in her adult life, and may not need a man later in her life.
• Stating that I am selfish, assumes that in my case, an intellectual, Christian woman, will obviously have better options than me.
• I disagree that this is obvious...
• Prayerfully, true love in Christian marriage is not measured by having socially, as long as marriage as possible, say for example 60+ years.
• Prayerfully, true love in Christian marriage, is measured in-part, by seeking God's perfect will, with the inclination toward someone where there is mutual, spiritual, intellectual and physical, attraction (Matthew 5, 1 Corinthians 7, 2 Corinthians 6, as examples)
• I do think it is selfish (not my good friend), and offensive, when some in the evangelical church, expect a person my age, to ONLY date, in the same way, seeking the same potential partners, as would someone with vastly more experience than me, say divorced with children, for example.
• How is that based in love and truth, when my ontological nature and experience is not seriously considered?
BARCLAY, WILLIAM (1976) The Letters of James and Peter, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press.
