I am looking everywhere for it, but i cannot find it in exact words. Christians don't believe in sex before marriage, so where do they get this from?
2007-03-23 15:02:03 · 21 answers · asked by Audrey V 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Along with all other kinds of sexual immorality, sex before marriage / premarital sex is repeatedly condemned in Scripture (Acts 15:20; Romans 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13,18; 7:2; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7). The Bible promotes abstinence before marriage. Sex before marriage is just as wrong as adultery and other forms of sexual immorality, because they all involve having sex with someone you are not married to. Sex between a husband and his wife is the only form of sexual relations that God approves of (Hebrews 13:4).
2007-03-23 15:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by Freedom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Proverbs 5 15-17
1st Corinthians 6 15-16
Virginity is sacred! You only have one shot at giving this one gift away. Wouldn't you want it to be with the person whom you will spend the rest of your life with and not just some guy who really doesn't care about you, only to satisfy himself?! Even if you have been in a long term relationship, and you think it's time, you should think twice. It is proven that if you have premarital sex, chances are you will not stay with that person. There is an extremely powerful and emotional occurrence that happens after sex and most teens regret ever losing there virginity before marriage. I promise that you will regret not saving yourself for that special person who is willing to spend the rest of his life with you, commit to you in front of God and family, and be a husband to you, and father to your children. I personally know from experience that I wish I would have waited for my wife before I had sex. That is a gift that I can never give her. I truly honor, respect, and love the girl I am with now and only wish I could have shared that experience with only her. We have been married 4 years and I often wish I could erase my past and be only with her. Do yourself a favour and hold off on sex until you marry, you will not regret it!
2007-03-23 15:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by Franky 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With the seventh commandment, the penalties for breaking God's laws concerning sex are many! They include being infected with one of the many terrible types of STDs, an unwanted pregnancy, damaged reputation, failure to achieve desired goals, financial loss, legal problems, grieving parents and broken hearts. Adultery breaks up marriages. Mental and emotional scars from fornication commonly hurt one's future marriage relationship.
According to the Bible, sexual immorality is the most self-damaging sin mentally and spiritually, and oftentimes physically (Proverbs 6:24-35). The apostle Paul paraphrased Proverbs 6 and said, "Flee sexual immorality!" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Later he wrote to Timothy, "Flee also youthful lusts" (2 Timothy 2:22). Stay completely away from sexual temptations! Jesus also strongly warned against tempting someone else, such as by immodest dress or suggestive conduct (Matthew 18:6-10; Romans 14:13, 21).
Almost every book in the New Testament warns about the evil of sexual immorality, so the writers knew that Church members and their children would face strong sexual temptations—temptations to intentional acts and impulsive acts. Depending on the particular translation, the Bible warns of adultery (extramarital sex), fornication (premarital sex), lasciviousness, lewdness, licentiousness, sins of the flesh, uncleanness, whoredom, sodomy and lust. All illicit sex adulterates (pollutes) one's marriage or future marriage.
There is "a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing" (Ecclesiastes 3:5). God's will is that passionate kissing and petting (intimate touching) are pleasures reserved only for married couples. God intended them as a natural prelude to intercourse—as part of a married couple's foreplay. When single people indulge in this, no wonder they are tempted to "go all the way!" That is the process that God designed for married couples!
For those who desire to be married, who faithfully put God first and wait patiently for God to be the Matchmaker, God will greatly reward them. Those rewards usually include marriage, but not always. Living a single life can have spiritual advantages, as Paul explains in 1 Corinthians 7. Whatever sacrifices we suffer in this life will be tiny compared to our glorious life in God's Kingdom (Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17)!
2007-03-23 15:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by TIAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a christian but I can give you a logical reason why Christianity and most other major religions in the world have such bars against pre-marital sex.
Sex is a wonderful thing. However excessive sex has physically damaging effects. Too much sex will cause a much faster rate of cell degenaration through loss of semen.
Sexual indulgences can lead a person to forgo his/her religous obligations. The desire for sex can easily supress the need to go to churh or pray.
Unprotected sex leads to unwanted preganacies and sexually transmitted diseases. These are social and health issues.
Based on all that the ancient wise men decided a need to keep sex under control. It was not possible to expalin to the masses of that time the above reasons so religous fear was used to inculcate a sense of control in the heart of masses in matters regarding sex.
However these need not apply today. We are more aware of safe sex and are able to make good judgements when iot comes to sex. Having sex is not a sin but potrayed as such for well intended reasons.
2007-03-23 15:14:07 · answer #4 · answered by Rakesh 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because sex was designed for marriage.
I Corinthian 7:1-3
1 Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? 2-6Certainly—but only within a certain context. It's good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to "stand up for your rights." Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it's for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I'm not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them.
2007-03-23 15:12:01 · answer #5 · answered by Searcher 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sex before marriage is not a sin (according to the bible at least).
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 places in the bible, such as Mark 7:21, state that "fornication" is a sin. 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.
2007-03-23 15:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by gruz 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
gul look n the bac of the book for sex and search the page like when your looking in the index. If you do'nt believe about sex before marriage look up the word hymen it says Godly married.
2007-03-23 15:09:47 · answer #7 · answered by jelisa404 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sex between unmarried persons is called fornication and at Ephesians 5:5 it says: For you know this, reconizing it for yourselves, that no fornicator or unclean person or greedy person, which means being an idolatar, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.
2007-03-23 15:18:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
(Anyway, I am not a Christian)
2007-03-23 15:15:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe this was forked a long time ago to keep only women in line, men always kept mistresses and did as they pleased, don't sweat it, the estimates now is that only 3% of people wait until they are married..so I guess everyone will go to "hell".
2007-03-23 15:08:25 · answer #10 · answered by Diana 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋