Originally posted by gfs4731
Ok, I just want to get this right. The Bible,the dictonary, and the lawbooks in some of the states that came up in my search, and even the link that you gave here
www.m-w.com...
One entry found for fornication.
Main Entry: for·ni·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "for-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
: consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other -- compare ADULTERY
that states fornication is sex between two unmarried people are all wrong? Sorry, I just dont buy it myself.
There is a fallacy in your argument.
The english word fornication in the bible, comes from the latin word fornicationi.
The latin word fornicationi means "to have sex with prostitutes"
The english word means "to have sex out of wedlock"
fornicationi = fornication.
"sex with prostitutes" != "sex out of wedlock"
Make sense yet?
Edit:
The apostal Paul is dealing with carnal christians here. Taking the whole scripture in contex, he is telling them that yea you are saved by grace and not under the law,but these thing are wrong and not good for you. this is what the flesh wants, and i will not let the flesh have power over me.
Taking the whole in context, he is teaching them the nature of sin.
Lust is something "the flesh wants, and I will not let the flesh have power over me"
I do not and never have thought sex was a wicked or vile thing. Again God says the marriage bed is undefiled. You are to enjoy your wife or husband in a sexual nature. Thats is why God gave us those fellings and desires.
Once you are married, you should not defile your bed. Your desires should be curbed by "the expression of love" with your wife.
Sex through love is good. Sex through sin is not good.
Look at it from this prospective. If I had sex at 15 or 16 and in God's eyes I was made 1 with that girl.In Gods eyes we would be married. Now If I choose not to married this girl and had became as 1 with someone else that would be adultry in God's eyes. I believe the Bible when it says Every sin that a man does is with out the body:but he that comits fornication sinneth against his own body.
Unfortunately, I cannot agree with the first part.
I'll take the first part a step or two past how you describe.
Lets say you have sex with a girl you do not love, get her pregnant, and marry her because it is the "right thing to do". Let's say you never "learn" to love her. You then begin to hate the life you living. This hate turns to anger, which you take out on her and the child. The child grows up not knowing the meaning of "love", all she learns is anger and hate. How can this child learn how to love God, if her first teachers cannot love each other?
Is this the will of God?
Sorry, regardless of centuries of "religious teachings" I don't buy it, and I hold firm to my belief those verses do not discuss "sex out of wedlock", but rather "sexual immorality".
[edit on 27-7-2004 by Raphael_UO]
