2006-12-28 15:10:06 · 18 answers · asked by cincisaints 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It doesn't.
In Exodus, chapter 20, we read the Ten Commandments, and are told that we should not commit adultery. Adultery however is not defined as simply having sex outside of marriage. It's defined as having sex with a married person. Nothing is said to prohibit sexual relations between two unmarried people. In fact, if we look in the book of Leviticus, we are given a list of every situation in which we should not have sex. We're not to have sex with married people, or with family members, or with animals. We are not, however, prohibited from having sex with an unmarried person who is not in our family.
Some Christians will say it is "fornication". Christians like to interpret that as meaning "sex outside of marriage." It's not true. The Greek translation identifies "fornication" as being any "illicit (illegal) sexual activity." However, as we saw above, God did not mention sex between two unmarried people as being illicit.
2006-12-28 15:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by acgsk 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sex before marriage is referred to as fornication - or at least that is definition in Webster's dictionary of the word "fornication".
It is forbidden under Moses' las in Leviticus 19:Deuteronomy 20 22:18; by Jesus in Matthew 15:19 and Mark 7:21; by the early church in Acts 15:20; Acts 15:29 and Acts 21:25; 1 Corinthians 6:13,18; 1 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; 1 Thessalonian 4:3.
Just as just a few of them that I can think of off the top of my head. If I took a few minutes to search through my Bible I know that I could find 4 to 5 times as many more.
2006-12-28 15:23:21 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sex before marriage is called fornication and yes it is a sin. Sin is doing wrong to someone else. If you feel that it is wrong to cheat sexually on your girl friend or boy friend then you are almost on the right track of knowing what sin is. If you have sex without marriage then there is no commitment so you leave yourself wide open for cheating. So then if you are your partner cheats then you have no grounds for being mad about it do you. So therefore the sin of Adultery covers fornication too.
2006-12-28 15:23:31 · answer #3 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia defines fornication this way: Fornication, sometimes referred to as premarital sex, is a term which refers to any sexual activity between consenting unmarried partners.
1 Cor 6:9-11,18
9 What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.
18 Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body.
1Thes. 4:3 For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of YOU, that YOU abstain from fornication.
Heb.13:4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Eph 5:5 For YOU know this, recognizing it for yourselves, that no fornicator or unclean person or greedy person—which means being an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.
2006-12-28 17:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Read on to Vrs 26. Matthew 5:27 & 28. Read these verses. If you are a child of God, then your body is the temple, and He wants us to keep our bodies pure for Him.
2006-12-28 15:18:45 · answer #5 · answered by salvation 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bible has been translated, re-written, interpreted to the point that there is no way to prove what the original meaning was. It is almost all - interpretation.
Check this site to get some idea:
http://www.brs-inc.com/bible/greek.html
2006-12-28 15:40:23 · answer #6 · answered by Say What? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heb 13:4 exodus 20:14 Matt 5:28 if your religion lets you practice this its the wrong one.
2006-12-28 15:16:11 · answer #7 · answered by gary d 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you really want to look up to the bible, a book that condones slavery, for pointers on morality?
2006-12-28 15:34:58 · answer #8 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Hebrews 13:4
2006-12-28 15:27:14 · answer #9 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Ten Commandments for one...
#6 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Adultery = any sex outside of marriage.
It's pretty plain and simple.
2006-12-28 15:15:40 · answer #10 · answered by Edith Piaf 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋