Standards of Purity

What counsel, based in the proclamation, scriptures, and in the teachings of the Brethren, would you give to a pair of friends who are dating and have asked you about the Church’s guidelines on what is “too far” in a physical relationship?

For the Strength for Youth is a pamphlet that are standards on several topics for the young men and women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These standard are given to them to protect their purity. The purity of man is a key to happiness. Purity demands the respect between every relationship. Imagine the happiness of a couple that has saved their sexual intimacy for each other for their marriage relationship. This pamphlet says that there are limits of intimacy and it does not matter how private the situation is. Unmarried couples should not lie on top of each other, practice passionate kissing, and touch or arouse the powerful emotion that come from the sacred sexual private parts of souls. A standard is said if you are not comfortable with doing the physical actions of intimacy in front of your parents don't do it.

Using the doctrines of the Family Proclamation, scripture references, or statements of the Brethren, prepare a paragraph response to a person who asks why the LDS Church is opposed to “situational morality”, or the philosophy of letting circumstances dictate one’s moral lines (for example: wearing a trendy bikini at a beach where it’s acceptable swim wear, consensual sexual activity between friends, or pornography and self-pleasure [masturbation] where ‘nobody else is affected.’) 

We are the sons and daughters of God, preparing meet him again in his kingdom. He looks upon sin in the least degree of allowance, having standards spoken and not described appealing to personal revelation and integrity by the guidance of the Spirit of God. God the Father has a nature of perfection, hoping that we hold on to the highest standard of virtue. We are to stand as a witness of Christ in all times, in all things, and in all places. Setting your morals according to the situation denies the eternal nature of life. We lived before mortality as spirit children, and we live to honor God with our bodies in mortality and immortality. Eternal life is now. Let us keep the standard of immortality and perfection with the greatest efforts today.