Jessa Duggar is never one to sky away from controversy. She proved this again with a Facebook post about judgment, sin, God and hell this week.
The 22-year-old 19 Kids and Counting star, an evangelical Baptist who married Ben Seewald last fall, is outspoken and steadfast in her religious beliefs.
In Jessa Duggar's most recent social media missive, she said:
"I will speak to you a hard truth. I do not write this because I think that it will bring me popularity. It won't. But it is Truth from the Word of God: the Bible."
"To not tell people this is to hide the truth from them. To keep silent is to not care for their eternal destiny! I care about you, and this is why I am speaking out!"
She then quoted Matthew 7:1, which says "Judge not."
"Whenever someone speaks out against something that God calls sin, 'Don't judge!' can be heard coming from a thousand lips," Mrs. Seewald began.
"People don't like to have other people disapprove of the way they're choosing to live their life."
"People are content to live on in lying, cursing, pride, anger, bitterness, disrespecting of parents, lust, pornography, fornication, adultery, and other sexual sins."
"And if anyone tries to confront them, their attitude and response is, 'You live your life, I'll live mine. Don't you tell me what to do! Only God can judge me!'"
"But when unbelieving, sinful men die and stand before God, He justly condemns them to hell."
She went on to blast the common argument made by people who profess that they believe in "a loving God, not one who would send people to hell."
To Jessa Duggar, this is contradictory to the Bible and patently false.
"The person speaking this is right - their god is not angry with them. He can't be, because he doesn't exist. They are not talking about the God of the Bible."
"They have created a god in their own mind to suit themselves."
"They have removed any notion of the Justice of God, and have created a god of their imagination that they can be comfortable with."
"The Bible teaches that God is a Just Judge, and He must punish sin. Every one of us have broken God's law, and hell is our deserved punishment."
"(Unless you're reading some very distorted 'translation' of the Bible, you cannot get around the fact that there is a hell)."
She concluded her sure-to-be controversial post by listing a series of Bible verses, and urged her followers to read most passages from the holy text.
"If you find yourself a sinner in need of Jesus, then open your Bible today and begin to read the books of John and Romans. Let the Word of God root out the sins of your heart."
"Do not let up until you have found Salvation for your soul!"
The Duggar parents often accompany their kids on dates in order to maintain "accountability" and "keep things from going in the wrong direction," per Jim Bob. The girls are fine with this, as being alone with men puts them in grave "moral danger." When the parents aren't available, their older siblings will often tag along, making every date a group date and a family affair.
Even in the kids' late teens and early 20s, mom and dad are creeping on their text messages. When Ben Seewald jokingly wrote to fiancee Jessa, "Give me a ring," Jim Bob actually jumped in on the group text, writing "No ring yet." With a smiley face emoticon. Seriously, he did that. Jim Bob needs his own Instagram so he can start posting screen shots of this stuff.
This moment you see here between Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard would not have been permitted until the couple was married. Side hugs are the preferred method of PDA in order to prevent any further temptation or hanky panky, as has been well documented on 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars love their side hugs so hard. Any touching beyond that? Save it for your wedding night.
This is probably an obvious one if you know anything about the Duggars. The family does not smoke or drink. They do, however, enjoy the occasional sugary dessert or getting high on life and love.
Safe to say the Duggars are in the minority, having not read Fifty Shades of Grey (the movie adaptation of which they won't be seeing either, we're guessing). The Bible warns not to "think about gratifying the pleasure of the flesh," so instead the family studies Christian text and not E.L. James' erotic fiction. The Duggars' option is probably better-written.
Avert your eyes, Michelle Duggar! The family matriarch feels that dancing encourages "sensual" feelings, while Jessa Duggar has said that she feels modern music promotes "sex, drugs, all that type of stuff." Instead, the family chooses to play gospel music together.
Yes, seriously. There is Duggar-approved swimwear (it's conservative and not very revealing, spoiler alert) but when it comes to the beach, that's not happening. At all. Blame the general public. "It's just too hard for the guys to try and keep their eyes averted," Michelle explains. If we happened upon Kaley Cuoco doing beach yoga, we might see her point. But we also wouldn't complain.
Even if you took out the boozy parties and sexy nurses and cats looking to get frisky, Halloween would still be a no-go for the Duggars. According to the parents, magic and witches are "part of a demonic realm God wants us to stay away from," and this holiday qualifies. To each their own.
We don't actually know if there's a definitive rule against the use of birth control in the Duggar household, but it's clearly not something the family is thinking about, or using, ever. Just saying. Once those vows are exchanged, fornication and procreation tend to happen early and often, ensuring that the great state of Arkansas will never have a population shortage of really nice, quirky, family-first, side-hug loving human beings.
Jessa, who has previously likened abortion to the Holocuast and attacked evolution, is never one to pull punches when it comes to things that matter to her.
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