The sin of fornication violates the seventh commandment (Exodus 20:14), which was intended to safeguard the integrity of the family and the marriage union. God designed sex for marriage, and marriage to be a holy, prized, and honored institution. The Bible calls husbands and wives to keep themselves exclusively for one another or face God’s judgment: “Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers” (Hebrews 13:4, CSB). Condemnation of sexual immorality is unanimous in Scripture. Those who persistently indulge in fornication will not inherit the kingdom of heaven (1 Corinthians 6:9).
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“God designed sex for marriage, and marriage to be a holy, prized, and honored institution.”
Lacking ALL of that, we’re left with marriage being a civil institution of legal partnership that’s devoid of holiness or any need to follow allegedly divine strictures.
As far as an ‘honored’ institution, anyone who loves god but says that there’s no such thing as marital rape has dishonored far more than i ever could.
Mary. Put in Le Club Pudding by the Holy Spook. She being an underage child bride. Age of Consent .
Frankly, the fact that your 'God' committed the sin of Adultery is the least of your problems when it comes to morality.
When even your religions ultimate Arbiter of such can't obey his own Commandments, no wonder the likes of Josh Buggar - now doing a 12-strech for worse than what it claimed those not exactly like it were doing - denies you Christains of more than your right to have 'Opinions' about anyone else, o Pharisee! Hypocrite that worships a worse -than Hypocrite of a 'God'! J'accuse! [/Matthew 7:1]
When those not exactly like you are therefore more than infinitely superior - in every conceivable way - to your inferior subhuman worse than Hypocrite 'God': as proved by Josh Buggar, thought to be the diametric opposite to those the likes of him - including you o OP - railed against in that oh so Pharasaical way, until that expose destroyed not only his right to have 'Opinions' about everyone else not exactly like you, ergo...!
And, will there be marriage or sex in heaven? I remember some of the Jehovah's Witnesses youth being sad when pointed at Matthew 22:30. Then there's the interesting contradiction: why were angels seduced by the beauty of human women in Genesis? You also have to acknowledge that these are arguments to justify patriarchy and your particular definition of marriage, an institution close to ownership. Finally, sex existed before marriage did and humans invented various types of marriage and partnership arrangements, there's no need to stick to one promoted by an ancient people and there is no evidence that their beliefs and attitudes were holy. There is no evidence that any text of the Bible has a divine origin. There is overwhelming evidence for the formation of traditions, more ancient beliefs in older deities, polytheism, animism and for human evolution. Pointing at the fact that your particular cultural position is arbitrary.
If “God designed sex for marriage” and any sex outside of marriage is a sin, well, he obviously also designed it to be one of humanity’s strongest urges. Kinda seems like He’s setting us up for failure there, doesn’t it? And yeah, that totally checks out with everything else that asshole ever did….ya know, what kinda character puts a damn “forbidden tree” in the middle of a garden he made for his creations, with the only safeguard against it being basically “I said don’t do that”? His creations who, by the way, couldn’t know right from wrong until they had eaten the fruit from the tree!
The Bible calls husbands and wives to keep themselves exclusively for one another or face God’s judgment: “Marriage is to be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers” (Hebrews 13:4, CSB)
Hmm, OK, I find it possibly interesting that he specifically quoted another version of that verse when he didn’t before. I don’t know what the “CSB” is, but the version I’m looking at (from the “Skeptics Annotated Bible” which I think it just the good ol KJV?) says “whoremongers” and not “sexually immoral.” Make of that what you will, I guess.
This reminds me of a quote I once heard: “God created sex, but priests created marriage”.
Seriously though, saying “sex is evil” won’t turn people chaste. It just turns them away from fundamentalists like you.
@Timjer #155638
Well said, and if it's the only sex education they had access to, when they "rebel" (have a life) it unfortunately can lead to more unforeseen consequences. If they're then let down by their family or community, even more so...
@Anon-e-moose #155589
no sex was involved. God just put the egg cell or embryo in Mary. It was done artificially. And I told you that the Jews before the 4th century saw the Holy Spirit as a female which means She put the egg cell or embryo in Mary. No sex was involved. Mary wasn’t force.
*Reading Ezekiel 16:7 notice how he use past tense as a girl who is done with puberty over going through it.
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