Premarital S E X is a SIN!

Philippines
October 8, 2008 11:57pm CST
every grown up, specially the "Christ" believers like my family tells that premarital or making love before marriage is a sin, you know what i mean. I searched all over the internet and i cant find what i am looking for, the people who agreed and disagreed have some really good point, and im stuck in the middle and still unanswered. So could every tell me if it is really a sin or not? Every opinion and comments are well appreciated. Sorry for my english, im Asian.
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11 responses
• Estonia
9 Oct 08
What a nonsense! IT IS NOT A SIN!!!! If it is, then maybe animals also have to get married each spring before copulating? It is just countless prejudices and supersticions which do not let us live a normal life, and the funniest thing that we are the ones who make up those supersticions, out of thin air sometimes, making our lives more complicated.
• Estonia
9 Oct 08
Agree! There is no such problem if you just do not believe in its existence, and do everything the way you feel right.
@pawnee (187)
9 Oct 08
Its only a sin if you believe so! If you are a christian then you will be made to believe that it IS a sin. Its stupid, its not a sin at all in my opinion. I do not believe in jesus therfor I do not believe its a sin. Forget about other peoples stupid old beliefs and go and figure it for yourself. Itll be much more fun and you'll probably find your own meaning out of it all, which will probably make you alot happier. Good luck. Pawnee
• United States
18 Oct 08
it is a sin, and for you that do not beleive in Jesus when you go to hell, i want to see if you beleive in him then!! and since you do not believe in sin, i have a scenario for you, what if a someone murdered someone very close to you, what will you call that? SIN!!! but.... since you do not believe in sin , you see that the person who mrdered someone close to you is not guilty?
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
9 Oct 08
You will find many people who will tell you it is a sin. Ask them, first, to define "sin". They will probably tell you that it is written in the Bible and so it is. That is all very well. When we were little children, we learned what was good or bad by rules. We were never (or rarely) taught why it was bad to do certain things. Religion (and the Bible) teach rules and many people say that you should never question rules. I teach that, once you have come to the point where you can understand the reason behind rules, you should always question them. Questioning them does NOT mean rejecting them because there seems to be no reason behind them (which, of course, is what many teenagers do a lot of the time); it means accepting the rules on trust and with reserve until you can find the truth behind them (and there usually is a reason or a truth there somewhere). My first question to you, then, is: What do you, personally, understand by the word 'sin'? What meaning does it have for you? Once we know that, we can go on to discuss why a particular action might be sinful (or not).
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
i think sin is when you disobey something, i dint really know, lol. now it leaves another question on my mind. thanks for the response.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
9 Oct 08
'Disobey' implies rules ... 'Thou shalt not ...' and all that. As I have implied, rules are good, to a point. They give us guidance until we find our own standing with God. In my view, 'sin' is not about rules (or disobeying them). It's about following the path that WE think is best rather than the one that HE is always ready to show us. Sometimes we are just not attuned to hear Him (it's as if we have our GPS switched off) and we follow our own path, sometimes we consciously reject what we know is the recommended way. I'm sure you have experience of both in your relationship with your parents ... we all do things honestly which were really not 'wise' and we have all consciously done things simply because they were contrary. If we have good parents, they have usually forgiven us. God is the best parent, of course. He is always waiting for us to catch up at the end of whatever path we chose. He is usually ready to say, "Well, that was the path you chose. How did you like it?" ... and if we learned something (even if it was by falling in the mud), to smile and bless our choice for the teaching it gave us. 'Sin' is simply going another way than the one recommended. It is in our nature (and I almost believe that we were created to 'sin' because otherwise, how would we learn the difference between dark and light?) Whether we come to a realisation of God through Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jain, Sikhism, Ba'hai, Tao or even Buddhism (which sees no 'God'), we all face the same Light and encounter the same Love and we all have the same experience of turning away from it, either because it is too bright or simply because we want to know what it is like to do it 'our' way (that is what 'being made in God's image' is partly about).
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
9 Oct 08
I notice that I have said nothing about 'forgiveness'. English is a strange language and, even though many people don't realise it, 'remembers' its roots. The word 'forgive' has the word 'give' as its main part. God, essentially, gives us his Love, freely and unwithheld. The suffix 'for-' means something like “away,” “off,” “to the uttermost,” “extremely,” (and sometimes “wrongly”). We find it, too, in words like 'forbid', 'forbear', and 'forswear'. It sometimes gets confused with 'fore-', meaning 'something happening before', as in 'forewarned'. I think that 'forgiveness' really can be taken to mean a little of both. God gives to the uttermost and 'before' we have even asked or expected. In other words, before we have 'sinned' (and even as we do so by making that choice to go our own way) His hand is there, reaching out, even as our fingers part.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
9 Oct 08
It is a sin. It says so in the Bible and the reason is that if you have s*x before marriage you bring a lot of guilt. You worry that you have an infectious disease that might affect your future spouse. You worry about this if you are a girl because some diseases go unnoticed until it is too late. There is also that your spouse may not trust you. If you had s*x with someone else, you might have it inside your marriage with another and some men are so insecure that they will not trust you even if you swore on a sack of bibles. Then there is the other man may think you loved him (or the other woman if you are a man) and may come and try to break up your happy home. Also in some churches only virgins can wear white and if you are not in- talking to the ladies here, and wear white you will not be looked on very well. And in those situations, if you do not wear white unless you are a widow, then you are not looked on very well either. So it brings a lot of guilt and misery and that is why it is a sin.
@chris1314 (784)
9 Oct 08
I would say nowadays it doesnt matter, i dont believe in anything and i feel that you do what you like, how is it a sin if you are enjoying it? You may be dissapointing people but if you are having a good time, who cares? Chris
@Alnitak (423)
• Italy
9 Oct 08
Everything is relative... If you believe in Church, it is. If you believe in God... well, you should find a way to ask Him if he is happy about Church behavior. Let's say that God is in you... you can ask your soul and mind if you really consider it a sin or if you only do it because Church said so without really understand it or believe it.
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
i totally agree with you, i think they created marriage before just to assure the love and bond between the couples. thank you for your comment, but i really need more answers:(
9 Oct 08
dont know whether it's a sin as I'm not religious. But i definitiely believe that a girl should be a virgin on her wedding night
• United States
9 Oct 08
Have you checked the Bible? That would be the best place to look.
• India
9 Oct 08
this really depends on your way of thinking and your way of viewing things it is definitely not a sin unless you are breaking someones trust
@vmksvmks (413)
• Canada
9 Oct 08
Sorry i donot care if I cannot find whether it is or not in a book,magazine or whatever I am totally with the ideas this is indeed a sin if these free individuals want to engage in anything of this nature I was a virgin when i married and so was my wife and this was very important to both of us but i must confess wheh we were engaged i did do my best to sin but she Wait Be Patient I loved her so i agreed Good Luck WELCOME TO MYLOT
@albino001 (154)
• India
9 Oct 08
its not a sin until its approched in a correct sense
@bebeth (122)
• Philippines
9 Oct 08
a quote goes: "How come a moral wrong be a civil right? IT CAN'T. Read the Bible" honey, right is always right and wrong is always wrong.. people will tell you it depends on a preson's point of view.. know the truth, know your values and value them... in the end, it's you who will decide regarding this matter..