2 Peter

Reading chapter 2, I believe that excess of sensuality was a recurring problem.

"For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved." 2:18-19

When I was thinking about getting married (in the forever sense, not the temporary sense many of my young friends thought of it), I had one friend who was disappointed in me. She thought that committing to one person for the rest of my life was enslavement and that I should not tie my sexuality down like that.

Strange to see words like the ones I read today and think of that. She begged and harassed me about not getting married. She was outwardly hostile to me because women should not think they have to get married to be whole, women should be free, women shouldn't think they need one man to take care of her.

We aren't friends any more. We weren't really then either. She was enslaved to those ideas. She couldn't see that "getting married" didn't make me whole, committing myself to the love of my life and keeping it that way made me happy. I was free to choose this man, to become a partnership. It's sad for me to think that someone could think like that, find someone they truly loved and felt drawn to, and then walk away from that person because they were enslaved to the idea that they didn't need that to be whole.