Now the curtain falls... revealing the foundation of your strawman.
In other words,
"right is wrong, so long as it's not right to me."
Let's stick a pin there.
Now considering that you said, as long as two informed consenting adults who are not "married" to someone, wants to have sexual relations, it is okay.
You are referring to agreement between parties, which does not harm someone.
We are not talking about parties consenting to harm another, so your rape question is another strawman.
When I raise anything like that in the issue of informed consenting adults, you get sick at the comparison, so to be fair, here you are doing the same thing.
We could start to create all sorts of scenarios here. For example, if the law decides to torture a prisoner to extract vital information, is that right (it's not a question to you. i am simply showing how we can create scenarios).
You may not know why they made the decision to torture the person. You may just see the torture, and not see that 1, 000, 000 lives will be lost if that information is not retrieved.
So don't raise the scenarios.
So you know, it could also be the case that the act was not rape, just that you viewed it that way.
What we may consider to be right, may be right in our eyes only.
Let's stick a pin here as well.
Here is the other area I wanted you to reveal.
You believe,
"there is no universal law. It is just opinions of people."
This is how I know that revealing why the creator makes these laws, and is in a position to do so, will make no difference to you.
You will just carry on like the young people that ignore what the adults tell them.
So there. You answered your question, How do I know.
Yes, and I do know, and have access to what my God thinks. The man Jesus Christ revealed it, as well as Moses, and the Psalms, and the Prophets.
You don't have to believe what God thinks, but you have no basis for saying that no one knows what God thinks. You don't want to know, evidently.
I could, but I explained that it would be moot.
Even if I showed you, as you put it... "
evidence for those claims".
I'll do it now though, since it is clear what the strawman rests on, and I believe all the cards have been laid out.
The family is supposed to be the strongest structure in all the world.
It is said, 'Strong families make strong societies ' communities.
The creator - the supreme universal sovereign - is the originator of the family. He is life giver, and head of the family - universally.
You don't believe this. Doesn't change anything... other that whether you contribute to the success of families directly, or indirectly related to you, or not.
(Ephesians 3:14, 15)
For this reason I bend my knees to the Father, to whom every family in heaven and on earth owes its name.
I don't think I need to go into detail on how God made the family - heavenly sons, and earthly.
Moving on.
God gave instructions to his family, for their good, and to protect all families from harm.
Hence to go away from those instructions, will result in harm, whether one is aware of that or not.
God instituted marriage to his earthly creation...
a myth to you, of course. (Genesis 2:23-25)
Marriage between a man and woman was God's arrangement. (Matthew 19:5 ; Mark 10:7, 8 ; Romans 7:2 ; 1 Corinthians 6:16 ; Hebrews 13:4)
Without that marriage between man and woman, there would have be no human family.
Male + Female = Male + Female = Male + Female... That was the process.
God created them to extend the human families.
The instruction were given throughout the history of God's dealing with the family, and in the Tanakh, and later through Jesus and the apostles.
Because those instructions were often ignored... even today, it has resulted in harm to societies all around the globe - every part of the world, actually.
The evidence
View attachment 45590
Study on High-risk Premarital Sexual Behavior
Background: The pre-marital sex and live-in relationship among young people are increasing at an alarming rate. Remote consequences of such high risk behaviors are increase in the incidence of STDs (including HIV), unsafe and illegal abortion, adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, single mother child/abandoned child, juvenile delinquency and many more.
Results: Out of all 450 participants, 49.11% were in the age group of 18-20 years. Among study subjects, 13.78% had one or more pre-marital sexual exposures. In students with positive pre-marital sexual history, the various sex partners were girlfriends (95.16%), commercial sex workers (14.5%), homosexuals (6.45%), and multiple sex partners (33.88%). Among students, 62.9% were using condom consistently. Three-fifth of the ones indulged in premarital sex, were in the age group of 16-20 at the time of sexual debut. Conclusions: Most of the students were quite young (16-18 years) at the time of first pre-marital sexual exposure. Consistent condom usage was not uniform. The students staying at hostels, indulged in premarital sex, were found to have multiple sex partners.
There are tons of statistics showing the repercussions of immorality, which there is no need to produce.
Adults tend to think that their actions cause no harm, but they do not see the results of the harm.
Monkey see, monkey do
Children learn from what they see
As the evidence shows, Older adults actions affect young adults, whose actions affect minors, who grow to be young adults, practicing the things that they learn, as the grow to older adults. The unbroken cycle of damaged and broken families.
Actually, not only in the area of sex, but in all areas of human life, God's instruction manual - with its moral code - is useful for building and maintaining the family unit.
God has a family on earth that follows the instructions of his manual. For this reason, they make up one united family, worldwide.
Soon, in the near future, I believe, there will be one universal family, when Christ acts to remove all who do not want to conform to his moral standards.
(Ephesians 1:9, 10)
9 It is according to his good pleasure that he himself purposed
10 for an administration at the full limit of the appointed times, to gather all things together in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth. Yes, in him
All who reject him, will be gone from the face of the earth, and only those who submit to God's view of right and wrong, will remain.
(Proverbs 2:21, 22)
21 For only the upright will reside in the earth, And the blameless will remain in it.
22 As for the wicked, they will be cut off from the earth, And the treacherous will be torn away from it.