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filmmaker
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Hi, lately I’ve been thinking that all the biblical things about sex have to do with adultery, and not fornication, what’s with that?
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LoneRanger
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trick question right?
because the married act is reserved for two married people… 1 man and 1 woman…
sorry to be so wordy…
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Scott_Lafrance
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Revelations 21:6-8:
Revelations 22:14-15:
Fornicators are not allowed into paradise.
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filmmaker
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Thanks for answering my question, believe I’m smarter than I sound, but I should read the bible a lot more
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BlackKnight
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I agree with that. Sometimes we forget that the church not only approves of that but goes out of their way to encourage us to read it with a plenary indulgence attached to it. I don’t know about anyone else, but frankly I can use all the graces that I can get.
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thistle
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Paul is pretty clear on this in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10:
“Do you not know the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolators nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Do you not know the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolators nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor sodomites nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
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Guar_Fan
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Jesus referred to fornication as a defiling act (along with murder, adultery, theft etc) Matthew 15:18-20
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Ruthie
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To answer your title question:
The sex act is meant to be the ultimate expression of love for each other, and God. It is the joining that makes man and wife one flesh. It is a complete giving of one’s self to one’s spouse. It’s natural function is the creation of life; therefore we need to be open to new life when we engage in it.
Our world today sells almost everything with sex, and teaches us that sex for its own sake is just fine. At one and the same time, the world promotes sex as the best thing in the world, yet treats it as no more serious than blowing one’s nose.
Fornication is wrong because:
it is outside of marriage,
it treats the partner as an object,
New life is either denied (contraception) or disregarded,
All it gives to one’s self and one’s partner is the scratching of an itch,
It leads one deeper and deeper into sin.
By that last, I am talking about how having casual sex opens one’s mind to having sexual thoughts about strangers; where your first thoughts about someone are how sexually attractive they are, and whether bedding them might be fun.
I am speaking from my own experiences as a merry little fornicator. Even now, even though I know how awful it was to do all that, and though I have been faithfully and happily married for 7 years, I still find myself looking at men sexually.
In other words, my concupiscence got so much exercise back then that it is still very strong.
Take my advice… stay away.
The sex act is meant to be the ultimate expression of love for each other, and God. It is the joining that makes man and wife one flesh. It is a complete giving of one’s self to one’s spouse. It’s natural function is the creation of life; therefore we need to be open to new life when we engage in it.
Our world today sells almost everything with sex, and teaches us that sex for its own sake is just fine. At one and the same time, the world promotes sex as the best thing in the world, yet treats it as no more serious than blowing one’s nose.
Fornication is wrong because:
it is outside of marriage,
it treats the partner as an object,
New life is either denied (contraception) or disregarded,
All it gives to one’s self and one’s partner is the scratching of an itch,
It leads one deeper and deeper into sin.
By that last, I am talking about how having casual sex opens one’s mind to having sexual thoughts about strangers; where your first thoughts about someone are how sexually attractive they are, and whether bedding them might be fun.
I am speaking from my own experiences as a merry little fornicator. Even now, even though I know how awful it was to do all that, and though I have been faithfully and happily married for 7 years, I still find myself looking at men sexually.
In other words, my concupiscence got so much exercise back then that it is still very strong.
Take my advice… stay away.
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LovedOne
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God in His wisdom sees the complete picture of how sin affects us. He does not set down “rules” arbitrarily. They are there to protect us, bring us true happiness and avoid pain.
Take fornication for instance. Some might say that it’s no big deal, it’s fun, feels good and it’s simply 2 people enjoying each other.
Wrong!
It does NOT affect just those 2 people.
When one of them eventually marries - particularly when their spouse has saved themselves for him/her - the fact that he/she has been intimate with someone else is VERY painful for the spouse who did not.
It affects your marriage in ways you cannot forsee.
Images flood your mind, you wonder how you “compare” or if thoughts of those past encounters creep into your spouse’s mind especially during intimate times with you.
You just cannot “undo” fornication and the effects it has on someone else in a future time. BOTH participants will be affected. And their sin will affect at least one other person when they marry.
Yes God can heal those wounds - and He does!
But we must continue to preach the harms of premarital/casual sex! There are many.
Take fornication for instance. Some might say that it’s no big deal, it’s fun, feels good and it’s simply 2 people enjoying each other.
Wrong!
It does NOT affect just those 2 people.
When one of them eventually marries - particularly when their spouse has saved themselves for him/her - the fact that he/she has been intimate with someone else is VERY painful for the spouse who did not.
It affects your marriage in ways you cannot forsee.
Images flood your mind, you wonder how you “compare” or if thoughts of those past encounters creep into your spouse’s mind especially during intimate times with you.
You just cannot “undo” fornication and the effects it has on someone else in a future time. BOTH participants will be affected. And their sin will affect at least one other person when they marry.
Yes God can heal those wounds - and He does!
But we must continue to preach the harms of premarital/casual sex! There are many.
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