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What does the Bible say about fornication and premarital sex?
The poem describes two young lovers aching with desire. The obsession is mutual, carnal, complete. The man lingers over his lover's eyes and hair, on her teeth, lips, temples, neck, and breasts, until he arrives at "the mount of myrrh. The girl returns his lust with lust. This ode to sexual consummation can be found in—of all places—the Bible.
Fornication is generally consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other. Nonetheless, John Calvin viewed adultery to be any sexual act that is outside the divine model for sexual intercourse, which includes fornication. For many people, the term carries an overtone of moral or religious disapproval, but the significance of sexual acts to which the term is applied varies between religions, societies and cultures. In modern usage, the term is often replaced with more judgment -neutral terms like premarital sex , extramarital sex , or recreational sex. In the late 4th century, the Latin Vulgate , a Latin translation of the Greek texts, translated the term as fornicati , fornicatus , fornicata , and fornicatae.
What does the Bible say about? Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;. But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
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Farry 2 years ago
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Cafall 2 years ago
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Lar 2 years ago
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it is the special case.
Nice post! I wrote down a lot of new and interesting things for me! I will share a link with a friend in ICQ
I fully share your opinion. I think this is a good idea. I agree with you.