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Are there any scriptures that forbid premarital sex, particularly premarital sexual intercourse?
Fine. Where does the Bible say fornication is a sin or even forbidden?
Fornication ( porneia ) by any other name is still fornication ( Greek porneia )
I did, and didn't find a thing. Perhaps you can show me the way.Did you even try to google it?![]()
A&E were married before they ate the apple? Must have missed the announcement. Please share.Definite maybe, but it isn't recorded. However, they were married.
Let's see.1 Corinthians 7:9
The implication is clear. You cannot come to any other conclusion: sex needs to stay between married individuals.
In olden days with chaperones, pre-marital sex was easier to avoid. Nowadays, when couples are alone, kissing and perhaps becoming inflamed with passion, it is harder to avoid. Church weddings are not a must, however. So, I usually say that people who have fallen prey to temptation and had sex while unmarried should go to the city office and get a marriage certificate since in God's eyes it becomes either marriage or fornication depending on what is done thereafter. That is imo. Thus, it makes it both legal and a public statement for the world. This sleeping around thing with multiple partners only brings divine disapproval unless you have more than one wife. That is marginally permitted scripturally, but not legally in so many places.Are there any scriptures that forbid premarital sex, particularly premarital sexual intercourse?![]()
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Let me ask you: If you didn't believe god disapproves of premarital sex would you unilaterally object to it? I mean, aside from religious considerations, is there anything inherently wrong with it?In olden days with chaperones, pre-marital sex was easier to avoid. Nowadays, when couples are alone, kissing and perhaps becoming inflamed with passion, it is harder to avoid. Church weddings are not a must, however. So, I usually say that people who have fallen prey to temptation and had sex while unmarried should go to the city office and get a marriage certificate since in God's eyes it becomes either marriage or fornication depending on what is done thereafter. That is imo. Thus, it makes it both legal and a public statement for the world. This sleeping around thing with multiple partners only brings divine disapproval unless you have more than one wife. That is marginally permitted scripturally, but not legally in so many places.
Please consider why God disapproves of loose sex. It has nothing to do with sex in a sense since if you look at the animal world a lot of different things are encountered, including spiders that eat their mate once procreation has been accomplished, if memory serves. (some human males might think their mate one of those females!Let me ask you: If you didn't believe god disapproves of premarital sex would you unilaterally object to it? I mean, aside from religious considerations, is there anything inherently wrong with it?
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1 Corinthians 6:9-10. "Fornicators....will not inherit God's Kingdom."Fine. Where does the Bible say fornication is a sin or even forbidden?
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1 Corinthians 6:9-10. "Fornicators....will not inherit God's Kingdom."
Colossians 3:5-6. "....on account of these things, the wrath of God is coming." Notice, not murder, or thievery, or war.
Acts of the Apostles 15:28-29. "Essentials:....If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you.
From the Book of Laws which is the Most Holy Book of the Baha’i Faith:Does anyone know if there are any other religious documents that prohibit it?
Glad to know that, thank you!From the Book of Laws which is the Most Holy Book of the Baha’i Faith:
“The Bahá’í teachings on sexual morality centre on marriage and the family as the bedrock of the whole structure of human society and are designed to protect and strengthen that divine institution. Bahá’í law thus restricts permissible sexual intercourse to that between a man and the woman to whom he is married.” The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 223
I did, and didn't find a thing. Perhaps you can show me the way.
Chapter two. We know its about marriage because of Ephesians Chapter five.A&E were married before they ate the apple? Must have missed the announcement. Please share.
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Well, it does say it's better to marry than to lust, but being better hardly amounts to any suggestion that premarital sex is forbidden or amounts to sinning.1 Corinthians 7:8-9
So I say to those who aren’t married and to widows—it’s better to stay unmarried, just as I am. 9 But if they can’t control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It’s better to marry than to burn with lust.
Did Adam and Eve have sex in the garden before the fall?