hello i would first like to clarify that i would only like christian responders to this question.
i am a confused young christian male and i would like to know where in the bible does it say that premarital sex is a sin. if you could please use scripture references, that would be most appreciated.
2007-02-21 04:14:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm so sick of the religious obsession with sexual matters...why do the least qualified to know anything about sex feel the need to preach about it to the rest of us...just shut up about sex and mind your own business... which should be the really important stuff like ending world poverty and housing the homeless, feeding the hungry.
Religious leaders stop letting everybody down and do some meaningful work and stop sniffing around people's sex lives.
2007-02-21 04:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Basically think of it like this:
What does sex do? It makes two become one. So sex it actually what makes you married to somebody. In other words, the piece of paper the court gives you is for legal purposes, but for moral purposes, you are married the minute you have sex. Why do you think it's so important to people to have sex on thier wedding night?
So if you have sex before you're married, you are "married" to that person already (you two have become one). So if you go out and have sex with somebody else... well, you get the idea.
That's why the Bible talks about keeping the marriage bed pure (see verse quoted by somebody above me in Hebrews) and talks about not committing adultery. What would be the big deal about adultery if sex wasn't sacred to the marraige?
There are many many verses in the old testament that speak to sex (especially in the book Leviticus), but not so many in the new.
Basically, our society fools people into thinking (myself included for many years) that sex is somehow a separate act from marriage. The truth is sex IS what makes your marriage! (just ask a couple who is married and haven't had sex in years - you'll see what I'm talking about). As a matter of fact, the Bible says that part of the husband's duties is to have sex with his wife! (1st Cor 7:5)
Anyway, the key is this: Are you having sex for YOU or for God? What's the reason for the sex? Anytime you are doing something for yourself and trying to justify it, it's probably not what God wants. If Jesus were in the room, would sex be the important thing? In other words, do God's will and He will take care of everything else and you will KNOW when it's time for you to do things life sex!!
I pray the Lord blesses you!
2007-02-21 04:33:38 · answer #2 · answered by Cool Dad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fornication is having sex before marriage. And yes it is wrong in God's eyes.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Also see 1 Corinthians 6.
Also in the beginning when the Lord spoke of man and woman, He said they will leave their parents and become "one flesh" --this is in holy matrimony.
2007-02-21 04:21:53 · answer #3 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HI
Check out 1 Corinthians 7
Corinthians 7:2 - But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
When I was married, both my wife and myself were virgins, it was hard but it is worth it.
God has designed it this way to protect us, emotionally, physically.
2007-02-21 04:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by Seanzie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that "....it is better for a man not to TOUCH a woman", but it also says, "For if they CANNOT contain (abstain from premarital relations) let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn." I certainly wouldn't have wanted to destroy the sanctity of the sacrament of marriage over my unchecked libido!
2007-02-21 04:41:07 · answer #5 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I was raised to believe that premarital sex was wrong. I've been a strong public advocate of waiting. I wrote a song about it, which I have performed many times in front of audiences.
Waiting is hard. I used to tour several months a year and the tour is lonely. I didn't wait. I wound up having sex before marriage. I let a guy seduce me when I was 25. I married at 33.
I enjoy sex. I'm not ashamed of that fact.
2017-02-07 14:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by Rebecca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Fornication" is the word you want to look for here.
Personally - I have never once regretted waiting for the right guy, and the right commitment (marriage) first.
Good luck to you on all your decisions.
2007-02-21 04:26:41 · answer #7 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this website is a great reference for questions like yours
http://www.bibletopics.com/
2007-02-21 04:21:20 · answer #8 · answered by mmilner_24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋