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Post by Misty Hills on Mar 29, 2005 20:46:33 GMT -5
Has anybody read the book "kissed Dating goodbye" by Joshua Harris? If you have, please tell me if you liked it or not, and your thoughts on it.
I am in the middle of it, but haven't gotten too far in it yet.
[glow=blue,2,300]~Misty:)[/glow]
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Post by Zedonius on Mar 29, 2005 20:57:18 GMT -5
I read it several years back...I though he had some very valid points, but kinda extreme...I hold a middle-ground, I think. (I would have to read it again...)
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Post by GDL on Mar 29, 2005 21:18:48 GMT -5
what is it about?
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Post by awaz on Nov 20, 2005 2:30:31 GMT -5
It's about courting, not dating, so that you can stay out of temptation and keep yourself pure for marrage.
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Post by New Titania (TD) on Nov 20, 2005 2:49:45 GMT -5
Oh wait, I actually have that book, but i've never read it.
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Post by gynovia on Nov 20, 2005 17:34:48 GMT -5
no i've never read it, but i've heard about it. do you like it?
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Post by Misty Hills on Nov 21, 2005 14:59:43 GMT -5
I'm going to kind of have to disagree with some of his book. Lot's of the beginning is about purity, which is good, but I don't have a problem in that area. Some of it is a little extreem of saying that you shouldn't let your heart get involved. Some of his points are good, but he doesn't make his explanations on what to do very clear.
Yes I agree that the wrong kind of dating is bad, but what if it's more like courting or a safer kind of dating. He doesn't even mention courting to fix the problem really. He says to stay friends til marriage and not let your heart get involved. I don't know what he is trying to say concerning that. How can you want to marry someone without having feelings for them? Maybe he is saying something else, but that's what I got out of it.
If anyone understands this book better than me, I'd like to hear their point of view on this and their explanations to what they believe that Joshua Harris is trying to say.
I do think that he is quite extreem on certain things in this book, and probably other books by him too as well.
P.S. As for the good side, I do like his stories, they're interesting and fun to read and that's what kept me reading it.
~Misty:)
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Post by Armany on Nov 21, 2005 20:41:59 GMT -5
Heard of it. Sounds kind of "out there" in conservativism.
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Post by falklands on Nov 29, 2005 21:04:53 GMT -5
I kind of understand his point that you shouldn't "let your heart get involved" up until marriage. I agree that letting your feelings for someone take hold before a more-or-less marriageable age conforms to the standard that Romance was intended for marriage. I would rather stay friends with a girl for my whole childhood and young adulthood than to jump into a romance as soon as possible. I want to be able to say to my wife when I get married: "I waited all these years just for you." That sort of thing makes for a better marriage and more focus on commitment if patience is excersised.
Courting is fine, I would say, if it is done with the intention of leading up to marriage. I definitely do not endorse dating. Dating is basically having fun and romance without marriage and commitment.
Note I have not read Joshua Harris' book.
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Post by awaz on Jan 19, 2006 22:52:38 GMT -5
I think an Abraham Lincoln quote fits this: Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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Post by nella on Aug 3, 2006 9:54:11 GMT -5
I haven't read the book, but I know his younger brothers!!! ;D Internetly, of course. They have an awesome blog and I got published on it once!!! I was so happy that day!!! therebelution.com |
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