FieryOpal
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Joined: 12/8/2013 From: Maryland Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Kirata quote:
ORIGINAL: Arturas In the Gospels that word "fornication" is also used only in the context of sex with another man's wife. Try reading the Bible rather than doing Google searches if you wish to discuss it. The word being translated as "fornication" is pornia, not moicheia. The literal meaning is sex for material gain, commonly money (Gr. porne, "prostitute"), but in a theological context it includes engaging in sex for purely physical (i.e., material) pleasure. Fornication is a species of idolatry, in which the material replaces or is substituted for the spiritual. Adultery, on the other hand, is purely a legal matter. Incidentally, this explains why people intuitively recognize "but we love each other" as a spiritually valid defense against the charge of fornication, doctrine to the contrary notwithstanding, and also why it is possible to engage in fornication even within an otherwise technically legal marriage. I have to say, Kirata, that this is one of the best explanations I have heard on the sticky subject of 'fornification,' beyond my own intuitive understanding of it relative to a scriptural standpoint. As for the OP's profile, when I viewed it yesterday, she was listed as a 20-year-old female submissive from Douglasville, Georgia. I figured Athena hadn't viewed her profile before posting, so wanting to get married and start a family wasn't an issue of non-traditional methodologies, nor the feasibility of finding a church-going Christian man who would also want to wait until marriage before having sexual relations. quote:
ORIGINAL: thishereboi quote:
ORIGINAL: AthenaSurrenders P.S. Are you both male? Is gay marriage an option where you live and is it accepted by your branch of the church? Because if not, that brings up a whole much bigger round of issues. If my memory serves me right, yes his profile did say he was male. It is coming up not found right now, so I can't double check. Which makes me wonder how he was planning on having a family with another male partner unless he plans on adopting kids and why he was only focusing on the "no sex before marriage" aspect.
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