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NASB | 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 6:16 Do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, "THE TWO SHALL BE ONE FLESH." [Gen 2:24] |
Subject: having sex if engaged biblical stance? |
Bible Note: Beja. I would not call 1 Corinthians 6.16 speculation. It clearly teaches that sexual union makes us one with the person we have sex with. And that is marriage in God's eyes (Genesis 2.24; Mark 2.7-8) if we have not had sexual relations before. If we have tnen it still makes us one but in an adulterous relatonship. The principle is that sexual union makes us one with the person whom we have sexual union with. In the case of the first sexual union that is marriage (the two have been made one). A second sexual union is adultery. It is not marriage in God's eyes because the person had been made one with someone through the first sexual union May I suggest that your illustration misses the whole point In God's eyes (and in Jesus' eyes)she was married to the first man that she had had sexual union with. That being so Jesus would clearly not see her as married to the fifth or sixth man. Have you considered the fact that that was why He said that the man she was living with was not her husband (even if she was married to him, we do not know)? Man's misuse does not cancel the word of God. But we are not talking about a multiple adulterer who is at odds with God anyway. We are talking abut a pure girl who has had sexual union with a man she intends to marry. She can still have a husband in the eyes of God by marrying the man that she has had sexual relations with. If she marries anyone else she will be an adulterer. That is why if anyone in the Old Testament had sexual relations with an unmarried girl he was required to marry her and had no choice. As Jesus would have said concerning your illustration, 'from the beginning it was not so'. |