Do you think marriage is a sin? Or sex within marriage is a sin?
Please explain. Even I don't get this one.
2006-11-24 04:39:49 · 23 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because it isn't in the handbook
2006-11-24 04:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is not important that Christ wasn't married or had sex. The point is that it is not true. No proof has ever been shown to prove a lineage to Christ!
Marriage is a gift from God, you know the whole story of Adam and Eve. God created a companion for Adam because the Father created us as social creatures.
Genesis 2:18 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
Genesis 1:28 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Sex within marriage is what God intended. You never saw the social, ethical and health problems we do today when marriage was a sacred institution and sex before marriage was forbidden not encouraged like it is today. There were no where near as many unwanted children. Abortions were almost non-existiant. STDs were only spread through prostitution.
2006-11-24 12:55:07 · answer #2 · answered by nubins 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is not a sin, and sex within marriage is not a sin either.
What's important to us is the truth. If Jesus had been been married, that would have been okay. He was fully human, and it was within his right to have done that.
But there is no evidence to suggest he was married, nor any evidence to suggest he ever had sex with anyone. Most Christians do object, however, when someone claims Christ did such things, without providing any credible evidence to back it up. We then question their motives.
Why is it important for them to assert Christ did have sex, or was married? Why do they get upset with us when we ask for evidence to back up their claims?
2006-11-24 12:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by The Non-Apologetic Apologist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To most people marriage, sex, and children all are part of the deal. Since you ask Christians why it's so important then you have to except our ideas as to why it is important.. Jesus was God, Marry could only provide 1/2 the DNA needed to have a child. The Holy Spirit provided the other half.. Any children Jesus would have fathered would have Divine DNA. The idea of Children running around with sin natures and Divine power is a terrible thought. Not just in their destructive powers but their demand to be worshiped as Gods... Jesus could not have biologic children... Jim
2006-11-24 13:05:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to some Christains, people want to believe that Jesus was here solely to set an example. For instance no sex before marriage and not being married. If Jesus parttake in these subjects, then clearly it would have pulled him away from his destiny. So to answer your question, (Do you think marriage is a sin? Or sex within marriage is a sin?) I am sure no one is thinking this.
2006-11-24 12:46:01 · answer #5 · answered by sunshine23511 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It challenges the belief that Jesus was chaste. That his lack of sex in life somehow makes him more pure.
Also, any kind of change is met with general resistance and change to old established beliefs even more so.
Also, there is the aspect of Jesus as divine that many people adhere to. This is challenged when he is thought to have had a sexual relationship.
I think that it would be most certainly noted in the bible if Jesus was not married. It was the norm to have a wife in those days and it would have been very unusual to not be. The story of where Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine is thought by some to be at his own wedding.
2006-11-24 12:45:13 · answer #6 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For all I know he may have married. I don't think marriage is a sin or that sex is a sin.
2006-11-24 12:43:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is important because the Bible gives no indication that Jesus ever got married. Apparently, because it was his mission to lay down his life at an early age for our sins, it was not in his Father's plan for Him to get married and have children.
It certainly isn't a sin for a man to get married and have sex with his wife. The Bible commands men and women to satisfy the sexual needs of their spouses.
1 Corinthians 7:2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
But when people make up stories about Jesus being secretly married they make it look like the gospel writers had something to hide or like Jesus was just a regular guy who wasn't very much different from any other good religious teacher. That's why it is important to stick to the known facts and to not engage in fanciful speculations that cloud the clear message of Christ our Savior.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
2006-11-24 13:06:28 · answer #8 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be married is OK. to have sex within marriage is OK. to believe in Christ is OK. to be christian in belief is OK. sin is an interpretation and belief. last but not least -- sex within marriage is very OK. It beats me why all these individual concepts are OK --while they stand alone -- and the question is "mixed up" putting them together and making them all "unacceptable". I rest my case and so should you.
PS. let the believer believe what he wants to believe whether or not --it is truth according to you or the books. Hope it helps.
2006-11-24 12:49:59 · answer #9 · answered by s t 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was necessary for Christ to be celibate, pure and without sin of any kind. Of moral turpitude, morals and a man purely of God himself without the trappings of humans, like material goods or human eccentricities of desire (other than for God), want or need. Marriage is not a sin of humans, that is God wanted to promote the species and to produce offspring for on-going generations. To God and Christ, man was to lay down with woman to propagate the species, but Christ was not sent by God for this purpose, mainly to bring LOVE into the world.
2006-11-24 12:49:15 · answer #10 · answered by Ted 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well let`s start from the premise that Jesus is the Son of God and therefore Himself God, this is enough reason to make the idea of God having sex with His creatures just not acceptable and repugnant.
that aside we fail to remember that Jesus was without sin and being sinless had full control over His human functions, this is called the grace of integrity and means that just like Adam before the fall Jesus was not subject to the animal nature of man and had no need of physical satisfaction of a sexual nature.
this of course does not make marriage or sex for us sinful when it is used as God intended for man it just means that Jesus(God)
was not subject to human sexual passions as we certainly are.
2006-11-24 12:55:18 · answer #11 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋