PURE VIRGINS

"I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him."  2 CORINTHIANS 11:2

where are the pure virgins today?
at church...
really.
they are THE church!
...really!!

purity seems an impossibility in a world of unholy fantasies.  but it is a necessity to be holy if YOU WANT TO SEE GOD!

ONE HUSBAND ONE DEVOTION
ONE CHRIST ONE SAVIOR
ONE LORD ONE MASTER

i've heard of the idea of believers who lost their virginity physically that claim a "second virginity."  some slander them as hypocritical deceivers AT BEST!  after all, either you are a virgin or you are not.

understood...on both sides.

on one hand, it is a deception to deny sin that indeed happened.
on the other hand, the sin is forgiven AS IF IT REALLY DIDN'T HAPPEN!
but it did...
so, where does that leave those who want the virginity that they lost?

forgiven.  cleansed.  starting over again.  a new creation....and therefore...a virgin?

not quite...but exactly!

yes, in the body, one who lost his or her virginity cannot claim virginity physically. 

"what use is 'spiritual virginity' if one is not a virgin physically?" one may ask legitimately.

first, let's clarify the spiritual reality of being forgiven and thus being a new creation.

as i said, so i say again, when one is forgiven because of Christ's crucifixion, one is truly and really forgiven, with all sin forgotten, as it is written,

"I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I remember your sins no more." 

yes, God forgives and forgets!

He even erases, or "blots out," so that there is no record in hell or heaven of sin.  this includes those who are no longer physically virgins.

if the sin of fornication is forgiven, forgotten and forsaken,
then the one who is a new creation is indeed reborn a "virgin,"meaning one spiritually reborn and without any sin, including the sin of fornication.


for the fornicator who believes in the Lord Jesus, his old adulterous self is crucified with Christ, the body of adultery is destroyed, and he is no longer a slave of fornication, but is indeed a new creation.  if he never commits adultery again, and lives out his physical consecration, then for all practical purposes he is a virgin, meaning from the time of his new creation, he resisted all temptations of fornication, and maintained his purification until marriage.  he offered his new body and new spirit to his new wife alone. 

"so he should tell her he has never had sex?" 
no. 
he need not do that any more than he would need to say that because his sins are forgiven and forgotten, he never committed sin. 
no. 
what he can tell her is exactly what i've said, that from the time of his salvation he lived in a state of spiritual and physical consecration, which made him a "second virgin" if you will.

put this another way.  he was born, then born again.  but he has the same body and life as he had before he was reborn, yet a completely new and different life as well.  he has a new heart and a new spirit, and his body is now in a new state--destroyed, rendered powerless or inoperative through faith in his union with the death of Christ.  so on one hand, nothing has changed, but on the other hand, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED!!

"what if the man or woman who is no longer a virgin had their sins forgiven, but they committed the sin of fornication again?  now they are no longer virgins...again...no longer "second virgins...?"  this seems like crazy hypocrisy insanity to me!!! no wonder atheists make fun of christianity!"

"i mean really....!!!  is there a second, third, and fourth virginity?  how many virginities are there, REALLY!!!???"

this begs the question, "how many times are we 'born again?'" 
we are born once.
we are reborn once.
Jesus was born once.  He died once, rose once, and returns once.
how many times are we forgiven?  seven times seven?  no.  seventy times seventy!!!
my children are my children, before and after they are forgiven, if they commit sin.
after being forgiven, the barrier to intimacy is removed, but their status as my children didn't change.
"but does the status of the 'second virgin' change if he or she sins again sexually after their 'rebirth?'"

the second virgin concept is only useful as it expresses newness...a new start, new identity, new focus, new purpose.  so the PURPOSE of virginity is purity and exclusivity, spiritually and physically.  the one who sins, confesses, asks forgiveness, and stops, is indeed forgiven with his sins forgotten. 

think of it in marriage.  a woman commits adultery, and is truly and deeply sorry.  she confesses to her husband without making any excuses or blaming him, as if any fault of his excuses her broken promise.  she asks him to forgive her and forsakes the adulterer forever.  she genuinely decides to NEVER commit this sin again, and decides to be faithful to her husband.  now, when she committed adultery, she was an "adulteress" as long as she committed this sin.  but upon confession and being forgiven, what happens?  she returns to her status as wife.  in fact, it is safe to say that her status as wife never really ended, BUT WAS ADULTERATED!


the beauty of being forgiven, whether of fornication or any other sin, is that believers can start again, and their new start is always as God's children, never left or forsaken, confessed sins forgotten!  in this way, they are "pure virgins," promised to One Husband, destined for heaven!