What is a Christian?

quater wrote:Sex outside of Marriage is sinful.

Well,
I did not know this.

KarateKeyaQ wrote:

quater wrote:Sex outside of Marriage is sinful.

Well,
I did not know this.

Mhm. Well, it is. You can check the Bible, it's in there.

Yeah, fornication....

Why is it sinful though?? As in - what made god say that no one shall have sex unless they are married??

God made us to be joined together with one other person.

In Mathew 19:4-6 Jesus says, "From the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife; and the two shall be one flesh...What God has joined together, let no man put asunder."

That may seem a bit trivial, as all Jesus is saying is that men and women come together to get married. But remember Adam and Eve? God made Eve specifically for Adam and his needs so that the two would be perfect for each other. In the same way, God makes all men and women so that they may have, if they are supposed to be married, that one person right for them if they have faith in God to provide.

And marriage is good. All studies have proven that those raised in a married household have much much reduced chances of dropping out of high school, getting arrested, doing drugs, getting a teenage pregnancy, comitting crimes, etc. In fact, if you apply married households to studies than it can eliminate 'disadvantages' brought on through poverty and race by quite a bit.

You may ask, well why does that matter? Because marriage is meant to create families. We get lost in this 'it's meant to find your true love' which, yes, it is. But for God it's meant to join two people so that they may raise a family.

And there is more. People who are married are emotionally healthier, happier, better employees, make more money and dozens of other things that those who are single, divorced, or unmarried do not have. For example, a married man with heart cancer can expect to live a 1000 days longer (A study by Yale showed) then a perfectly healthy single man will (This is of course saying the Heart cancer is cured and doesn't become malignant). Those who are just 'living together' also have wrecked emotional problems and living problems that married people just don't have.

Sadly for some reason people think Christians don't enjoy sex. Because we want to save ourselves for the one person we want to spend the rest of our life with, we apparently are prunes about sex. The irony is, all studies show that Christians enjoy sex more than any other study group from the single to the swingers. And that alone should be an argument to waiting till marriage, as if it's more enjoyable then, why ruin a good thing comin?

I hope I at least somewhat helped answer a hard question, there SSS.

It was a very thorough explanation. ^^

I try! ^__^

Good!