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1 | Premarital sex is a sin? | Heb 13:4 | monkman | 112452 | ||
well, this is a very interesting discussion... I have been married and divorced after 3 years (my wife wanted to get rid of me) and I have had a sexual relationship for one year and a half with a divorced woman. I guess that would mean that according to some of you, I have been fornicating or something like that... Do I feel guilty? Yes and no. Yes because I rushed into these two relationships much too quickly and with hindsight I could say I should have slowed down and given it more thought. And Yes also because it is very painful to be that closely linked to a woman, to have that kind of intimacy, and then become like strangers... there is bound to be some sin in that, I am sure there is. But also no... because... I don't consider premarital or postmarital sex in itself to be 'fornication' or sinful, the only sin I would admit is adultery... By the way, God does not hate divorce (as the NASB puts it), He just hates men sending their wives away (because that is the original meaning of the hebrew). So I have this kind of in between stance, not liberal and not conservative... perhaps this is the moment to add I am dutch/european... it seems we are a bit more liberal than christians in the usa. I would welcome any reactions out of a concern to be biblical and loving. |
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2 | Premarital sex is a sin? | Heb 13:4 | terrib | 112460 | ||
Greetings monkman, Not to be flippant, but I did not know that God's Word was different in Europe. Considering the Mosaic Law: Mat 19:8 - He saith unto them ... - Jesus admits that this was allowed, but still he contends that this was not the original design of marriage. It was only a temporary expedient growing out of a special state of things, and not designed to be perpetual. It was on account of the hardness of their hearts. Moses found the custom in use. He found a hard-hearted and rebellious people. In this state of things he did not deem it prudent to forbid a practice so universal; but it might be regulated; and, instead of suffering the husband to divorce his wife in a passion, he required him, in order that he might take time to consider the matter, and thus make it probable that divorces would be less frequent, to give her a writing; to sit down deliberately to look at the matter, and probably, also, to bring the case before some scribe or learned man, to write a divorce in the legal form. Thus doing, there might be an opportunity for the matter to be reconciled, and the man to be persuaded not to divorce his wife. This, says our Savior, was a permission growing out of a particular state of things, and designed to remedy a prevailing evil; but at first it was not so. God intended that marriage should be between one man and one woman, and that they were only to be separated, in the case of adultery or death, by him who had formed the union. You wrote, “the only sin I would admit is adultery...” Isn’t that enough? Look into your heart, you know! terrib |
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