Is there more than definition to what committing adultery means?

Question

I know it means that you should cheat in a relationship. But does it also mean that having sex before marriage isn't allowed. And does it mean that as a teenager (16 or older) shouldn't or can't have a relationship with someone 18 years of older? Does adultery appeal to everything that has to do with relation and sexual wrongness- like a commandment that tells you what's acceptible of us. Do you understand what I'm tryin' to say? Help me out if you can...

Answer 1

Adultery is simply a married person having a sexual relationship with someone they aren't married to. Having a sexual relationship with someone when neither of you is married is fornication (also a no-no if you are a christian). Age doesn't factor into it except when it is against the law; after all, through out history women were married off as soon as they were old enough to bear children, often to men old enough to be their fathers or grandfathers.

Answer 2

Adultery concerns situations where vows are involved between a man and a woman or between God and man.

If a male and a female have sex with no marriage commitment, and are not committed to anyone else or to God, they are involved in fornication. They are said by Scripture to be sinning against their own bodies. Nevertheless, they have become one flesh. All there subsequent encounters will be adultery even if they never get a marriage license or live together common law.

If one or both parties have a prior vow to another, or to God, they are committing adultery from the get go; and most likely causing the other person to commit adultery.

The 18-years-old and licenses and family approval and church approval have nothing to do with it. If you are past puberty and verbally commit to a heterosexual relationship you are married in God's sight for life.

In this age we have kids who are making commitments they believe are short term (matching their parents and institutions) and consummating the same in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grades. Many of these kids are already adulters and adultresses long before they ever get out of high school.

Answer 3

The only definition of adultery that I know of is the following: If a married man looks at a woman not his wife, lusting after her he is committing adultery in his heart.

So if you do exactly what you lusted to do, then that is adultery in deed. The definition of adultery is somewhat flexible cause your lust can be in many variations; yet it is rather precise, cause you are married and that woman is not your wife.

Sex before marriage is another matter. That is fornication. It's probably not as bad cause it may not involve cheating.

Answer 4

Historically (and Biblically), women were considered to be the property of other men. If you had sex with a married woman, you were basically stealing from the husband. That's what, Biblically, adultery means.

In the NT, it was sort of redefined to include married men having sex with anyone other than their wife, but that isn't what it meant in OT days. That was called fornication in OT days.

The NT is rooted in the nasty practice of asceticism, which basically sees sex as evil in general.

Answer 5

I don't really know the specifics, but I think its all crap.

Back when the bible was written, people were allowed to not only have relationships, but marry people younger than 18, and they still are now. This Arab guy once told me he could marry me in his Country, and I was 16 at the time.

Theres always someone or something telling us what to, or what not to do....meh

Answer 6

The strict definition for adultery is having sex with another man's wife. The Bible uses adultery figuratively for any immorality. When the Bible was written having sex made you married.

Answer 7

no your thinking of lust of the flesh, that is before marriage,
Sex before marriage is a sin against your own body, (look at the stuff you can get from sex);
God doesn't put them on you, you do by having sex before marriage, and committing adultery,
Your body will reap what you sow.
Satan comes to still,kill, and destroy, you open to his kingdom, you will reap his kingdoms curses,
You stay clean an live the way God tells you too, then you wont reap the cures, of aides, and clap and all that other sex ugly stuff to contaminate your body.
IT contaminates you, but your soul will always be able to ask Jesus to forgive you, but it catch something due to the lust of the flesh, it could kill you,
If I told you not to eat raw chicken it could kill you, you would not do it, but if someone says, come on its feels good.
well a year from now when you have aides, are you still going to feel good.
man and woman are meant to be with one person, one, not many,
God new what was up today, that is why he said what he said,
to protect you like hes suppose to, not to harm you, or not wanting you to have sex.
He always taught safe sex.
Its Satan you have to contend with when you let down the umbrella of protection from God
hope I helped,
Your question was fun to answer.
Its a sin agianst your own body.

Answer 8

Well, Jesus said that if a man even looks upon a woman with lust in his heart that it shall be the same as committing the adultry.
Fornication is sex outside of the perimeters of marriage.

Answer 9

God hath imposed a fine on every adulterer and adulteress, to be paid to the House of Justice # 49

Although the term translated here as adultery refers, in its broadest sense, to unlawful sexual intercourse between either married or unmarried individuals (see note 36 for a definition of the term), ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has specified that the punishment here prescribed is for sexual intercourse between persons who are unmarried. He indicates that it remains for the Universal House of Justice to determine the penalty for adultery committed by a married individual. (See also Q and A 49.)
In one of His Tablets, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá refers to some of the spiritual and social implications of the violation of the laws of morality and, concerning the penalty here described, He indicates that the aim of this law is to make clear to all that such an action is shameful in the eyes of God and that, in the event that the offence can be established and the fine imposed, the principal purpose is the exposure of the offenders—that they are shamed and disgraced in the eyes of society. He affirms that such exposure is in itself the greatest punishment.
The House of Justice referred to in this verse is presumably the Local House of Justice, currently known as the Local Spiritual Assembly.

Answer 10

Adultery: Thou shalt not take another man's wife unto himself. If you''re married or they are married, either is off limits to others. That's it in a nutshell: if you or they are in a relationship, you and they are off limits regardless of age.