I really hate this, because it expresses god as a judge in some municipal court trying to see if you technically did what you were supposed. There are multiple parts of the Bible where Jesus goes off on the pharisees for trying to rules-lawyer their way into being pure rather than try to act with pure intentions. It is also repeatedly mentioned that the letter of the law is not important, but the spirit of law is what we are supposed to be getting. I'm sure God would prefer a young couple in love to violate the letter of the law by having sex but maintain the spirit by keeping it between two close partners. Meanwhile, this rules-lawyering nonsense shows no love or respect for God and simply a begrudging fear of hell, a resentment of God for requesting certain things of you and a view of this all as a transactional relationship. To view your relationship with God not as a Holy Covenant founded in the love shown in Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross and the outpouring of His blood at the Last Supper, but instead as some contract the same as with a fairy or demon where you must play word-games and mess with definitions to game the system is a slap in the face of God. No wonder Mormons are freaks, they seem incapable of understanding God's love, and deny love to their fellow humans.
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