I heard it on my tutorial last weekend. It's short, although still a bit long to write down, so I will try to make it as brief as possible, keeping all the significant details in place.
So, a long time ago there was this young man and this young woman, who lived in one village, knew each other since childhood, and when they grew up they fell in love with each other. They were both Christians and they were waiting impatiently, in purity of their souls and bodies, for the day when they can afford to get married, live in their own house and have a loving family, so their life is fulfilled and happy.
One day the man received a letter from his uncle from a big town. The uncle wrote about a business he was starting and that he was sure he would be successful. And as he doesn't have any children himself, he would be delighted to work with his nephew, this young man. After giving this a bit of thought, the young man packs his stuff and goes to town, and his beloved woman stays in the village and waits for him to come back and marry her.
After some time she receives a letter from her beloved. He writes that the business indeed goes well, that he became rich and successful, and that he bought a beautiful house for them at the edge of the town. He asks his beloved woman to pack and come to join him in town, so they can finally get married and live happily together. The young woman packs her stuff and goes to town.
But at some point of her journey she sees a huge river - a deep one, running very fast. There is no bridge around, so it seems impossible to get on the other side. Then she notices a man with a boat, who offers her a ride on the other side. But his price is high: he demands her virginity. The woman is saddened and confused, because here she tries to get to the town to see her "only one", her future husband, for whom she was waiting so long... but if she doesn't "pay", she probably won't see her beloved ever again. So in the end she agrees and this way she lands on the other side of the river.
As she keeping walking to the town and she is quite close, she finds herself at the edge of a very big, dark and scary forest. She knows that the town lies just behind it, so all she needs to do to finally be with her beloved is to get through the forest. But there is this sign saying that the forest is dangerous and you won't survive there unless a guide helps you to go through. But there is no guide. Instead, a devil comes and offers the woman help in going through the forest, if she agrees to have sex with him. The woman is upset and hesitates, but finally agrees, as she realizes how close she is to her beloved, to her happiness and fulfilled life.
The devil helps the woman and there she is, standing at the edge of the town. She sees the beautiful house, the one her beloved described in the letter. She is filled with love and happiness that finally, after so much time and so many difficulties they will be together again, and they can live happily. She knocks at the door, but before that she decides she would tell him the truth about what happened during her journey, as she couldn't live in a lie. When the door opens and the woman tells her beloved what happened on the way, he... shuts the door in front of her face. He never spoke to her again and he never forgave her.
The end.
Now, the question... Were those two people, or maybe one of them (which one?), or none of them, good Christians? And why yes or why not?
The subject will continue :)
3 comments:
I think there are many interesting things in this story. The one that strikes me the most is the fact the woman gave her virginity up to see her husband-to-be. That shows two things:
1) She loved him very much that she gave this one important thing up.
2) She didn't for one second think how the man will feel like after hearing all this.
The truth is that for men, the woman they are with, has to absolutely be faithful to them (or at least in most cases). You can shout, you can yell, you can throw things at a man and he will try to be as flexible as possible (so to speak) and deal with it all but if you break the code (sleep with somebody else) then you did something REALLY bad in a man's world and that, in many cases as in this story, is absolutely unacceptable. This is just my point of view though and might not be yours or anybody else's for that matter.
I think, we cannot expect from religious people act like angels.
I know that for most couples infidelity is one of the hardest thing to forgive.
You can be a Christian but still suffer...
And you have your own will to forgive or not.
If you fell or struggle that does not mean you are a bad or good Christian, right?
I do not know... evaluations always make me angry :)
We never know what's really in sb's else heart!
I agree, you can't tell what's in somebody's heart.
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