What is the line between fornication and sex for procreation, and where are the rules written?
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Um, well, the one answer is way off: "Fornication" is specifically "sex between two unmarried people" -- the illicit sort, according to the context you're asking about.\n\nSex for procreation is, well, sex meant to create a personal family and propagate the human species.\n\nFornication actually runs counter to procreation in the sense that having sex outside wedlock has the possibility of birthing children who have no secure family foundation: The institution of marriage is the best way to create a stable place in which to raise children, as long as both partners are committed to the marriage and willing to give.\n\n(This is one of the reasons marriage has become a legal institution.)\n\nNow, you can't really separate sex from procreation, although today we've managed to do so to a large degree. But emotionally and realistically, every time you have sex, the procreative part is still connected to the pleasure part. \n\nDrawing a line between the two can create unhealthy behavior because you can "use" people for personal pleasure rather than giving to the other person as a sign of your love.\n\nIdealistically, sex within marriage was supposed to involve both pleasure and procreation (although I think there is still some level of responsibility that must be maintained in terms of one's resources).\n\nSome of the rules are written ("Thou shalt not commit adultery"), while some are extrapolated from the Biblical description of love (such as in 1 Cor. 13).
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Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:\n1. Single people should be celibate.\n2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).\n3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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A chief aim of Satan is to get persons to break God’s laws that govern the use of their reproductive powers, and his arrangement of marriage and the family. God’s laws to protect our happiness say that unmarried persons should not engage in sexual relations, and that married persons should not have sexual relations with anybody else besides their marriage mate. (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8; Hebrews 13:4)\n\n When God’s law is broken, often children are born without parents who love and want them. Mothers may even have an abortion, killing the children before they can be born. Additionally, many who commit fornication get terrible sexual diseases that can damage children that they may bear. It is an act of unfaithfulness, a crime against God, to have sexual relations with someone to whom you are not married. Job said: “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door . . . that would be heinous, a crime to be condemned.”—Job 31:1, 9, 11, The New American Bible.\n\nWe should not be surprised that this Devil-ruled world would make it seem normal and right for you to have sexual relations with a person to whom you are not married. But if you do so, whom are you pleasing? Satan, not God. To make God happy, you must “flee from fornication.” (1 Corinthians 6:18) True, it is not always easy to be faithful to God. It was not easy for Job either.  It is wise to obey God’s laws. You will be happier now if you do.\n\nEph. 5:5: “No fornicator or unclean person or greedy person—which means being an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.” (This does not mean that anyone who in the past was a fornicator cannot enjoy the blessings of God’s Kingdom, but he must cease that way of life in order to have God’s approval.
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1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body.\nHebrews 13:4 Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.\n1Thessalonians 4:3 For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of YOU, that YOU abstain from fornication.\n(1 Corinthians 6:15) Do YOU not know that YOUR bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ away and make them members of a harlot? Never may that happen!\n(Ephesians 5:3) Let fornication and uncleanness of every sort or greediness not even be mentioned among YOU, just as it befits holy people.\nThese are but some. Hope this helps. :)
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that's for me to know & you to wonder....however, answer to question 1:\n\n\n2 Chronicles 21:11  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.\n\nIsaiah 23:17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.\n\nEzekiel 16:26  Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.\n\nEzekiel 16:29  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.\n\nMatthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:9  And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.\n\nJohn 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.\n\nActs 15:20  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.\n\nActs 15:29  That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.\n\nActs 21:25  As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.\n\nRomans 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,\n\n1 Corinthians 5:1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:13  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.\n\n1 Corinthians 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.\n\n1 Corinthians 10:8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.\n\n2 Corinthians 12:21  And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.\n\nGalatians 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\n\nEphesians 5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;\n\nColossians 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:3  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:\n\nJude 1:7  Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.\n\nRevelation 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou
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Sex is LEGAL worldwide between two consenting adults. The MORAL ideas differ in every part of every country.
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Marriage: A union between a man and a woman, based on love, etc...\n\nAbortion: It's wrong, you should only be having sex with people you love anyways, and after marriage.\n\nLiving together: It's frowned upon, because usually this signals sex, but it's not something the catholic church focuses on.\n\nTraditional marriage: In a catholic church, done by a catholic priest.
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Hi,\nThe bible say "no" (fornication...), so I say "no", its not good. \nYou should save your self! Read the Bible in Romans!
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It's an age-old question. It's really between sex or no sex at all. There are moral dilemmas dealing with sex where religion comes in, and then there's the other hand. Of course, if you are going to have sex, you should always be safe for health reasons.
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As a Catholic, it is forbidden. I chose to be a Catholic, so I'm going to obey its laws. Religious reasons aside, sex IS NOT MEANT TO BE A CONTACT SPORT, solely to satisfy sexual urges.This is my opinion only , and I'm sure that there are a lot who are frowning upon my answer to this question.
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Actually, there is very little written in the Bible on the topic of marriage in general. However, there are plenty of guidelines set out for living a chaste life. "Marriage" is really a commitment (or "covenant") between the couple..the act or pledge of dedicating their lives to one another.\n\nPremarital sex with a betrothed is an individual decision. Sex outside of commitment is known as fornication.
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it's called fornication and yes, it's a sin. Here are some verses in the Bible...\n\n1Co 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. \n\n1Co 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. \n\nGal 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, \nGal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, \nGal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. \n\nEph 5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; \n\n...just to name a few.
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Under strict Catholic doctrine, this would still be considered fornication.
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Yes, it is legal, though "fornication and adultery" isn't. Also, you can't rent a hotel room with someone of the opposite sex for "immoral purposes" or pose as a husband and wife. All these laws have been ruled unconstitutional though, by cases such as Lawrence v. Texas.
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Heb 13:4  Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery. \n\n1Co 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
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Sir/Madam, your question is not logical. You are asking a moral question and not allowing moral arguments to be used. It is like asking me to measure the length of a book but I am not allowed to use a ruler. My next question  would be" What standard of length do you want me to use, feet, yards, centimeter, or angstrum units?In the same way, I have to ask you WHAT CONSTITUTES A PERSUASIVE ARGUMENT? I can tell you quickly that gay marriage is not something a state wants to do because it will undermine REAL MARRIAGE just as adultery or prostitution or fornication would. The human race has been down this road before many times and each time it is tried, society eventually crumbles. Even the Soviet Union had very strong marrige laws even though they were atheists because they knew that if they did not they could never stand against us. I hope this helps you.
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It is acutally an acronym that stands for something.  In the past people actually had to have permission from the King in order to make a baby.  This was partly due to the fact that many people didnt own land and had to live on the Kings property.  So the word in question actully stands for Fornication Under Consent of King.