Bible Question:
What is fornication... what are the guide lines of two people in Love, and two people in Love with God, that are 45 years in age and once married with children. Is kissing fornication, is forplay fornication. What is fornication when the Bible talks about it? Thank You, and God Bless!!! Bill |
Bible Answer: Bill, Fornication in the Old Testament is 2181 in the hebrew of the Strong's Concordance means committing adultery continually in the feminine sense, commit idolatry. Also 8457 in the Old Testament in the hebrew means whoredom, harlotry. In the New Testament its 1608 in the Greek in the Strong's Concordance, meaning utterly unchaste, giving over to fornication, unclean, loss of innocence, immoral, an awful thing. As for kissing being fornication, well kissing to the point of necking which can lead to lust and to foreplay which leads to sexual intercourse is fornication when out of marriage. When two people come together this way, you two become one. In Genesis 2:24 it says Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. You notice it says wife, because when you come together sexually you are his wife in the sight of God. Also in 1 Cor. 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows. It is good for them if they abide (remain) even as I. Verse 9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. And we are also to be an example to our children. In Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; And when he is old, he will not depart from it. In old times past throughout the world many cultures when two go in the tent or dwelling they're single, when they come out they're married. Their were no marriage licenses of paper in the days of old. But what's important is that you remain chaste in the sight of God. In the Father's Love, Serenetime |