How is cohabitation sinful?

Question

Guidelines:
1. If the only passage you can quote in the Bible is 1 Corinthians 6:12-13, 18-20, don't bother quoting it. The passage says nothing related to the question.
2. Two people sharing their love in a monogamous relationship is not fornication; if it were, sex during marriage would also be fornication.
3. Statistics=lies. I don't believe them, so don't quote them.
4. Keep in mind marriage traditions when the books of the Bible were written were a lot looser than they are now.

What I'm basically asking is where in the Bible is it explicitly stated that two people living together in a loving, committed, monogamous relationship wrong, if they have not yet taken on the labels "husband" and "wife" or signed a slip of paper declaring this?

I didn't mean to offend asking respondents to actually use their minds to come up with other than the same tired arguments. Still, Uncle Thesis did good with his quote, even if he actually proved my point. if you're a Christian, everything you do is for His glory; why can't it be God's will for two people He has put together to do anything they can to be together even if they feel it's too soon to marry?

I think Suzanne is taking her quote somewhat out of context. Jesus was not condemning the woman for her past "mistakes," if they can be called that; the true point of their meeting comes in the later part of the dialogue, when He identifies himself as the Messiah. I'm not trying to find a "loop-hole;" God's word means different things to different people. Realize, though, that you can't take a tiny passage of a story and draw a conclusion on the whole story--you have to look at everything that's being said.

Answer 1

My understanding is that cohabitation is not sin as long as you understand that by living together God now considers you and your wife as one. In other words, in God's eyes you are married so if you were to break up and end up living with someone else, you would be committing adultery. Some may disagree but that's the way I see it.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.(Genesis 2:24, KJV).

Answer 2

READ THIS

When you read passages from the bible other then the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the 4 Gospels, you are being deceived.

Jesus gave you the Living Word of God, the Words that Jesus spoke, they are spirit, and they are life, they are with power, the words spoken by anyone other then Jesus, are just words.

Search the 4 Gospels, see what Jesus himself had to say concerning cohabitation.

Jesus told us not to enter into marriage, and not to lust.
When he talks about adultery does he say a married woman or just a woman.
When he talks about writing of divorcement does he say saving for the cause of adultery or fornication.

If you are married can you commit fornication or adultery.

Matthew 5:33 gives you the answers, it is the taking of an OATH that Jesus see as a sin.
Remember Jesus told us in the Lord's prayer "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Jesus told you that there are no marriages in heaven.

Don't let someone tell you what Jesus said, you have his Words to read for yourself.

Did you know that Jesus called Moses, and the prophets thieves and robbers, and the sheep, did not hear their voice.

Many will use Matthew 15:19 to tell you that fornication and adultery are sins. Adutery and fornication are sins of an Oaths not sex. You can not break an oath you can only fulfill it.

God joines to gather two people, remember in heaven there are no sexes, or marriages.

Answer 3

It is not fair to ask a question and then give series of conditions.
Don't say this. Don't say that. Can't quote stats., etc.
Why do you bind the hands of the one answering?
In fact, why would 2 people living together in a loving, comitted, monogamous relationship not want to legalize their union ......and co-operate with Romans 13:1?

Answer 4

The Bible clearly teaches that living together instead of being married is sinful.

First of all, Jesus blatently tells the Samaritan woman at the well that, just because she's living with a man, He doesn't consider her to be married:

John 4:16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

Further, at Matthew 19:1-10, Jesus explains that God created men and women; when they are joined together in marriage, they are not to be separated unless one of them has committed sexual immorality. As such, Jesus clearly teaches that marriage is the scenario God had in mind at the beginning of creation. Never does He state that living together is part of God's plan.

At Matthew 15:19-20, Jesus speaks critically of "fornications" (any kind of sex outside marriage, including heterosexual and homosexual sex), telling us they "defile a man." So here, it's completely clear that Jesus did not at all support this activity.

Answer 5

Cohabitation implies that there is no bond. If one is having a bad day, one may leave the relationship. There are many who would say that is not my relationship but for many it is.

It is scandulous because it says to the younger generation that God does not gives the marriage special graces so cohabitation is just as valid as marriage.

If contraception is used there are more issues. Married people would use Natural Family Planning to space children.

Answer 6

My wife and I lived together for 5 years before we got married. Smartest thing we ever did. I don't consult the bible for how I conduct my life.

Answer 7

Why are you trying to find "loop-holes" in God's Word? His Word is the truth. Please just accept the truth. You'll be better off.