Posted by Rx on May 21, 2008 at 20:58:00:
In Reply to: Re: Better to marry than to burn? posted by Slippy_Slider on May 21, 2008 at 16:27:01:
Cheers SS.
Thanks for being willing to discuss this. I pray for your continued strength as I too have a couple of observations.
You gave evidence that you believe it is possible, (as you say, ) "to sleep with someone outside marriage..."
In fact that is an incorrect teaching of almost every Christian denomination.
I am not aware of a single scripture that suggests this is even possible,
and there are several that suggest that sleeping with someone RESULTS in marriage,
every time.
The most obvious statement, in at least a dozen translations, is 1 Corinthians 6:16. Paul very clearly states that a non-virgin is joined to her partners many, just as Adam and Eve were joined.
Fornication is another story, and adultery yet another, and yet ALL of those results in marriage if it its a first union between a man and woman.
You seem to suggest that sex is a blessed way to "get it out of their system".
I hope you now realize that these non-virgins are joined permanently.
They have spent their last "option" for any blessing: Joining any subsequent partners is clearly adultery, for a woman, whose former partner lives. And Jesus calls it adultery if men have put away any of the former partners.
5000 North American babies die every day because of people who were "flushing their system" on a fertile day, largely because the church has been teaching these unions are not marriage. The church has a lot of truly innocent blood on its hands.
One in five teen American women over age fifteen have been pregnant. Would they, if they realized their Creator views it as a permanent and final choice of mate?