Hi everyone,
This is just a topic which I have been studying, and I wanted to see what others thought.
Yes, I have formed a conclusion. My conclusion is that premartial sex is not a sin simply for the reason that it doesn't exist. Premartial sex isn't mentioned in the Bible. Sex cannot be before marriage as sex is what makes a man and woman married. Those are my thoughts in a nutshell. oh, yes, this thinking is based on Scripture. I'll post a more in-depth conclusion later.
A definition of premarital sex (not to be confused with extramartial sex, that is a sin):
Premarital sex is sexual intercourse engaged in by persons who are unmarried.
The word fornication comes from the Greek word
por·nei´a and from which the English word pornography arrives. The Hebrew verb
za·nah´ and its related forms convey the idea of harlotry, immoral intercourse, fornication, or prostitution. (Gen 38:24; Ex 34:16; Hosea 1:2; Lev 19:29) Regarding the meanings of
por·nei´a, B. F. Westcott in his book
Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (1906, p. 76) says: “This is a general term for
all unlawful intercourse, (I) adultery: Hos. ii. 2, 4 (LXX.); Matt. v. 32; xix. 9; (2) unlawful marriage, I Cor. v. I; (3) fornication, the common sense as here [Eph 5:3].”
Bauer’s
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (revised by F. W. Gingrich and F. Danker, 1979, p. 693) defines
por·nei´a as “prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of
every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.”
Porneia is understood to involve the grossly immoral use of the genital organ(s) of at least one human; also there must have been two or more parties (including another consenting human or a beast), whether of the same sex or the opposite sex. (Jude 7) Therefore, fornication is
illicit sex relations outside of Scriptural marriage.
At Genesis 38:24, Tamar cunningly deceives Judah (some years after the birth of Joseph in 1767 B.C.E.), her father-in-law, to have relations with her, with it being said that "about three months later it happened that it was told to Judah: “Ta´mar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot (Hebrew
za·nah´), and here she is also pregnant by her harlotry (Hebrew
zanuwn, derived from
za·nah´).” The Mosaic Law had not yet arrived (in the year 1513 B.C.E.), so the now unlawful act of Tamar was not a sin by law.
Yet, several hundred years earlier (around 1918 B.C.E.), after Abimelech, king of Gerar, had taken Abraham's wife Sarah as his, to add to his wives, God told Abimelech in a dream, following Abimelech's expression of innocence: "I too have known that in the honesty of your heart you have done this, and I was also holding you back from
sinning against me. That is why I did not allow you to
touch her (sexually)."(Gen 20:6) Hence, long before the Mosaic Law, God established a moral boundary with regard to sex, that only between a husband and wife.
God placed upon the nation of Israel a law of commandments in 1513 B.C.E., consisting of over 600 laws. It stated of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan and their gods: "Watch yourself that you do not conclude a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, for fear it may prove itself a snare in your midst.....Then you will have to take some of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters will be certain to have immoral intercourse (Literally, “and [their daughters] will fornicate.” Hebrew,
weza·nu´; Greek,
kai ek·por·neu´so·sin; Latin,
fu´e·rint for·ni·ca´tae ) with their gods and make your sons have immoral intercourse with their gods."(Ex 34:12, 16)
During the eighth century B.C.E., Hosea wrote: "There was a start of the word of Jehovah by Ho·se´a, and Jehovah proceeded to say to Ho·se´a: “Go, take to yourself a wife of fornication and children of fornication, because by fornication the land positively turns from following Jehovah.”(Hos 1:2) Thus, Hosea's wife Gomer had committed "fornication" with other men and had several children as a result, "children of fornication". She violated the moral boundaries that God established in the "beginning", that of one husband with his one wife in a sexual union.(Gen 2:24; Matt 19:4-6)
The apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians: "For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of you, that you
abstain from fornication; that each one of you should know how to
get possession of his own vessel in
sanctification and honor, not in covetous
sexual appetite such as also those nations have which do not know God."(1 Thess 4:3-5) Paul now says: "So, then, the man that
shows disregard is disregarding, not man, but
God, who puts his holy spirit in you."(1 Thess 4:8) Any who transgress God's moral requirements is "disregarding, not man, but God".
The "world" has no moral boundaries; "the sky is the limit", whatever satisfies their "sexual appetite." Paul however, puts it succinctly: "What! Do you not know that
unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither
fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom."(1 Cor 6:9, 10)
Any who cross the moral boundaries without genuine remorse, failing to change their conduct in harmony with God's moral requirements, is barred from "God's kingdom" or the hope of living forever, either in heaven or on earth.(Rev 5:9, 10; Matt 5:5) These are called "unrighteous persons". Thence, any sexual relations outside the boundaries of Scriptural marriage is fornication and prohibits life without end to any who disregard God's laws on morality that he established in the Garden of Eden.
Revelation 21:8 says that "as for the cowards and those without faith and those who are disgusting in their filth and murderers and
fornicators and those practicing spiritism and idolaters and all the liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur. This means the
second death.” Thus, premarital sex, extramarital sex or any illicit sexual relations outside Scriptural marriage is condemned by God and can result in a person's everlasting destruction.
but have you ever considered 2 Peter 2:19?
