If a man and a woman sleeps together without the benefit of a legal marriage and involve in sexual acts to fulfil the lust of the flesh, the Bible condemns it in its entirety.
In Matthew 1:18-20, Mary and Joseph were espoused to be married. The word ‘espoused’ in Greek scriptures says they were already engaged, the original word being 'mnesteu' which means they had a fixed relationship, a fiancé, fiancée relationship which did not involve sexual acts and it was for that reason that Joseph planned to leave Mary, because he hadn't touched her. A relationship that is fixed and with a mutual understanding later leading to marriage was what Mary and Joseph had.
But in our time, sexual relationship is just like a play between children, people of the opposite sex freely engaging in sex without responsibility, out of the bonds of marriage. Is it right in the sight of God, of course it is not! Marriage first before sexual relationships.
But to have sexual relationship outside marriage is called fornication in the Bible according to 1 Cor. 7:1-2.
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Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
To avoid fornication, every man or woman should be married because sex outside of marriage, is prohibited by God.
Sex belongs in marriage and that is why Saint Paul advises everyone to have their own wife or husband. Sex is a gift from God, but He commands it within the confines of marriage only, but the cultural norms of these days have shifted so far away from this command. It is a reality that sex has lost any sense of stigma, even for many Christians, treating it as something normal and utterly pervasive. It is unfortunate that worldliness in our age makes sin look very normal, but thanks to Bro. Eli Soriano who reiterates in this video, what is the command of God, which is the only command Christians should follow.
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Everyday we see the world is changing, in every sense, its like the human brain is turned upside down, especially this generation, normalising wickedness and evil and fornication and all manner of things is going wrong, but as children of light we must not fall into these plot but to keep renewing our minds day by day by Gods word.....
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Thank you very much for throwing more light, it is very clear that in these end times, men would no longer heed to the voice of God but as children of light, we have our guide.
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Fornication is one of the things that God dislikes the most and he warns we people who are not married to totally stay away from it
This may be hard but it’s the best way to live a good life
We can see what destruction is happening because of fornication and having multiple sex partners. Sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and others continues to wreak havoc today.
Thank you very much @amiegeoffrey.
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