Is premarital sex really a sin? (Jesus, moral, doom, sinners)

[JamBar85]

Originally Posted by Holly

Is premarital sex really a sin? The Bible condemns sexual immorality but not premarital sex. I personally do not believe that premarital sex is a sin. What do you believe?

I agree with you. I don't think it is a sin.
I think that if a couple are in a healthy relationship and want to have sex with each other before they get married then thats fine. Whos to say that a couple in a healthy relationship would even want to get married.
If there are couples out there who believe it to be a sin and should wait until they get married, then that's fine too.
I don't think there's a right or wrong answer. Depends on what the individual or couple want.

[Moey]

This is how I look at it...

As an athiest I believe it is fine.

But for those of you that believe in a god, why would it not want you to enjoy all things enjoyable? If God made it than it must be ok right? Otherwise procreation would not be as enjoyable.

[RUone2]

I recall reading in scripture some one saying that "it is better to spill your seed in the belly of a whore then it is to spill it upon the ground" since they had words for the womb, but used Belly, I can only think of one way "seed" would enter the belly. I believe it to mean that love is to be shared between two people, no mention of marriage,

[s2a]

Originally Posted by s2a

I don't "believe" in the concept of "sin".

I "believe" in concepts of morality...and personal accountability for the choices one makes in uniquely controllable conditions.

I don't "believe" that pre-marital sex is a "sin", but it does bear individual accountability and responsibility and accountability for whatever consequences may arise from any mutually consensual choices made. That said, adolescents do NOT retain the requisite levels of maturity, perspective, or value judgment to be held either entirely accountable or responsible for inevitably lacking discretions or discernments.

If an unmarried sixty-eight year old man, and an unmarried sixty-five year old woman want to enjoy "pre-marital sex" (beyond any overtly expressed interests towards any prospective marriage), does anyone really object to that (beyond the icky kinda picture that pairing paints)?

[And, just for fun...who lives with whom in the afterlife, if men/women have remarried multiple times upon the death of spouses? Are custodial rights of children deliberated/enforced in an "afterlife"? Where (or with whom) are adopted kids appointed to reside after their mortal existence has expired? Just wondering...]

I would but note that Holly (the instigator of this thread) has remained ominously silent and disengaged from the conversation that has ensued henceforth...

Odd that...