Pre-marital, is sex out of the confines of marriage. To have many partners with which to choose from.
Pre-marriage, is sex with someone you intend on being married to. You have sex before marriage. Some see this as an idol and get it out of the way. Who is to say that this is not ordained of God? Maybe they sleep together before they marry and stop to seek marriage counseling. When they get to the alter consecrate themselves in Christ blood and all sins commited beforehand are washed clean. Where they are seen as virgins.
2006-10-04 17:34:40 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I congratulate you on having the maturity to recognize the kind of intimacy you'd share with someone you intend to make a real commitment to. But you're splitting hairs.
"Pre-marital" and "pre-marriage" mean the same thing.
You describe sex with many partners. You already seem to indicate there's no intention of commitment, and no (or little) emotional intimacy. How much value does this kind of "fun" have?
The real fun (for grown ups) comes in the emotional and physical intimacy with someone you truly care about. Sex is just the canvas on which you paint.
Don't we owe it to them as men to only be that intimate if we're compatible mates? Isn't that kind of intimacy something that the two of you should lead up to?
No woman I know wants to be just another "score". (Despite what you see on "Sex and the City). Women are looking for real relationships.
2006-10-04 17:44:25 · answer #1 · answered by roberticvs 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Until you make the vow before God, you are not married. Sampling the goods before the vows is fornication and it is wrong. Sex was intended for marriage to bind two people as one and if the act is not satisfying to one or the other, prior to marriage, the party may opt to leave the relationship. If both were virgins, now neither are.
2006-10-04 17:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by JB Martin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sex outside of marriage is just that sex outside of marriage. God doesn't say just because your plan is to marry this person its okay because you gotta test drive the car before you buy it. WRONG! Be Holy because God is Holy. Sex outside of the marriage covenant is wrong because God says it is. Pre marriage is just a convienent way of making yourself feel okay to have sex with someone who is still not your legal wife. :-) God is in the details. Sex is only acceptable to him within the confines of marriage. Besides who is to say that having sex with the person on a pre-marriage basis that you will still marry that person. Someone I know well was engage to a guy that she slept with and was engage to but didn't get married. So that was still pre marital sex.
2006-10-04 17:42:02 · answer #3 · answered by Monique B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to answer a question that you just answered. Premarital sex is the same as pre-marriage sex, just used in a different context. Either way, it is the same thing and one cannot be more approved of than the other.
2006-10-04 17:40:25 · answer #4 · answered by makeitright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to many big words i am confused this question is out of my league ill stick to the i need help on my math homework questions but hey i got 2 points an u lost 5 but will gain 3 that makes it an even 2
2006-10-04 21:21:03 · answer #5 · answered by Emily May 11/10/08 :) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to have answered your own question, but neither kind of sex is intrinsically sinful. Sexual pleasure is a gift, not a curse, and as long as we do not harm ourselves or others, we should follow our own consciences.
I think you may be referring mostly to the hypocrites who sow their wild oats all week, then go to church and pray for crop failure.
2006-10-04 17:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you aren't married it's called fornication (regardless of intentions).
Many people have had good intentions of marrying but didn't ... instead they end up being single parents. (Like many of my friends)
God wants Christians to be obedient... mankind is still looking for a loophole.
2006-10-04 17:50:31 · answer #7 · answered by jaimestar64cross 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are identical.
Sex before marriage is sex before marriage.
Sex with many people before marriage is not just pre-marital sex, it is called "promiscuity."
Sex in a monogamous relationship before marriage is not just pre-marriage sex, it is called "practice." :-)
2006-10-04 17:44:59 · answer #8 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Either way it is still wrong! It is still before marriage! You need to save yourself for marriage!
2006-10-04 17:38:33 · answer #9 · answered by Bulla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with trying before you buy.
2006-10-04 17:46:59 · answer #10 · answered by Not_a_toothless_pirate 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋