if everyone followed the bible's teachings on sex and marrage, how would the world be a better place?

Question

How would the world be a better place? What would the dis-advantages of this be?

Answer 1

The divorce rate would certainly be low. Unwanted pregnancies and STD's would be rare.
Since God is the one who instituted the marriage arrangement, who better to know how husbands and wives should complement each other as "one flesh"
If married couples follow the Bible's counsel, then there should be no disadvantages, only a deeper and more spiritual bond between them.

Answer 2

If *everyone* followed the Bible's teachings in this regard, the world would definitely be a better place.

Husbands and wives would love and cherish each other and provide for each other a stable home (the Bible's teachings on marriage involve more than sex). As a result, the heartache and tragedy of unfaithfulness would disappear.

Children wouldn't have to suffer in a home full of hate, nor would they have to live in a broken home or without the benefit of a mother AND a father.

Children would also see consistent living examples of fidelity, respect, honor and decency.

In turn, a world full of people who have respect, honor, decency and fidelity could not help but drastically improve the social & political climate.

Sexually transmitted diseases would disappear.

My apologies, but I really have to address this "sexual compatability" issue. Some of you are confusing love with sex. That's a huge part of the problem. When you truly love somebody, the physical relationship will be gratifying.

Answer 3

People might not take marriage so lightly. In today's society, if you feel like getting married, why not do it? You can always have the marriage annulled if you change your mind. People don't realize that they are not only making a commitment to each other, but also to God. Marriage vows are a promise, and they aren't to be entered into or broken lightly.

Also, by trying to remain sexually pure, people might have a reason to take marriage more seriously. I don't judge what others do, but I wouldn't personally want to feel comfortable with granting several people that kind of access to my body. If husbands and wives had more things that they shared only with each other, they might see their marriage as something more sacred then just a legal agreement.

I'm not saying that Christian marriages always work out better. There are plenty of Christians who don't follow the Biblical instructions for marriage. Just because someone is a Christian doesn't mean they always follow the rules exactly right. However, the people I know that have a Biblical marriage are still as happy and in love as the day they spoke their vows.

By the way, I'm talking about the commandments of Jesus Christ and Paul's elaboration on these teachings ... not the Law of the Old Testament which doesn't really apply to modern marriages.

Answer 4

The world would not be a better place, if everyone followed the bible then people would constantly marry the wrong person. The bible says that you should be a virgin until marriage, and since religious people have little experience in the matters of love they'll marry the first person that shows them the slightest bit of affection. Love takes time, and sometimes you have to see if you are sexually compatible. Take arranged marriage for instance, its the most selfish practice in the history of the planet. Its like this,

"lets find a partner for our son/daughter that will make us (the parents) and god happy, who cares about our son/daughters happiness."

Sure the bible tells you how a good marriage should be and what should be done, but it doesn't take into consideration the thing that affects these situations the most. Love and emotion. Whats the point of having these emotions if we're not allowed to use them?
OHHHHHH CHECK AND MATE!!!!!!!

Answer 5

That really depends on which of the Bible's teachings you decide to selectively follow.

There are plenty of good tips in the Bible about sex and marriage regarding purity and moral behavior (interpret that as you please). But there are also plenty of pretty messed up things in the Bible about sex and marriage regarding family relations and hierarchal power.

Personally, I'm not too much a fan of staying a virgin until marriage for religious reason. Sexual compatibility is one of the key components of a successful relationship, and one of the top three topics that couples, married or not, fight about (the others being money and children).

The Bible ignores all that. People might stay married because they think they have to or a book says that they should. Those are awful reasons to do anything.

Answer 6

There would be no pre-marital sex, no abortions, no divorces, no homosexuality, and no adultery.

This would make the world a better place for many reasons, not the least of which would be the fiscal savings from no legal proceedings for divorces, no medical costs for STD's, no AIDS. I really see no dis-advantages at all.

Answer 7

You enter into the convenant of God and the holy family. This is where you get the power from to exist in the pitiful state of humanity. Doing it Gods way will always work. He is faithful even when and especially when we are miserably unfaithful

Answer 8

Not likely no. I'm assuming you're including all the teachings related to the headship of the husband and so forth? It was tried and found inadequate.

If all you mean is its better to marry than to burn then, possibly.

Answer 9

There would be less children born without knowing their fathers. There would be less disease, less corruption overall. Marriage and sex are one the things that God is very big on. Why do you think it mentions having no sexual relations with anyone but your spouse so many times int he bible? It is the 14th commandment after all (Thou shalt not commit adultery.) In Proverbs 12:4 it says:A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones. In 1 Corinthians 6:18-19 it says:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your cown?

In Timothy 4 it talks about being pure. It says in verse12:Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

In Matthew 5:28, sexual purity is explained as any man looking on a woman to lust after has commited adultry in their hearts. Whether you are married or not, adultry is the same thing. It is sexual impurity. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 tells us who won't get into heaven.

If there are so many examples in the bible about sexual purity and marriage, I don't think it would be an issue with God. The fact that he says over and over what is acceptable to Him, says that we should be looking at this too.

Both my husband and I were virgins when we got married. We spent time together getting to know each other as people before sex was introduced. To me, it doesn't matter if you have sex outside of marriage, but for me it was important to keep myself pure for the man who was meant for me. Sure, it would have been easy for me to give in with some of my other boyfriends, but I knew it was better for me to wait until I was married before I gave that part of myself to someone. I think it makes us more respectful of each other to know that we have only had each other.

Answer 10

if marriage and sex are done the bible way:
1. Women would be submissive, dormant and more child-like than children
2. There would be no female progress and no women in the work place. Hilary who????
3. Men would be sluts and disease vectors. Raping the submissive women as they please, marrying multiple wives and doing whatever he wants with them (remember the females are docile)
4. In fact, it will be a fantasy world for chauvunistic males and hell on earth for females.

That's why i chose to have my heaven now. hell can come later, if it really exists.