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Fornication is "sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other"[1] or, more broadly, sex other than with someone you can marry, as with incest or adultery.[2]
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian church:
| “ | Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.[3] |
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Martin Luther maintained that it is most shameful for Christians and those who are familiar with the Holy Scriptures to incline to the opinion that simple fornication is not a sin.[4]
Premarital sex and higher divorce rates
See also: Divorce
According to the abstract for the 2024 journal article Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce published in the journal Journal of Family Issues:
| “ | Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why. Scholars have attributed the relationship to factors such as differences in beliefs and values, but these explanations have not been tested. It is further unclear how this relationship changes by number of sexual partners, or differs by gender. We re-examine this relationship with event history models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Models include measures of adolescent beliefs and values, religious background, and personal characteristics, as well as approximate number of premarital sexual partners in young adulthood. We find the relationship between premarital sex and divorce is highly significant and robust even when accounting for early-life factors. Compared to people with no premarital partners other than eventual spouses, those with nine or more partners exhibit the highest divorce risk, followed by those with one to eight partners. There is no evidence of gender differences.[5][6] | ” |
Liberals, leftists and atheists have consistently gotten divorced at higher rates than social conservatives, which some say strains the sanctity of marriage.
For more information, please see: Atheism and divorce
For more information, please see: Atheism and divorce
References
- ↑ Merriam-Webster definition
- ↑ Never Thirsty - a project of Like the Master Ministries
- ↑ http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%206:9-11&version=NASB
- ↑ (1958) "ONE", in Jaroslav Pelikan: Luther's works: Lectures on Genesis: Chapters 1-5. Concordia Publishing House, 166. ISBN 978-0-5700-6401-5.
- ↑ Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce, Journal of Family Issues, 2024 Mar;45(3):674-696. doi: 10.1177/0192513x231155673. Epub 2023 Feb 12
- ↑ Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce, Journal of Family Issues, 2024 Mar;45(3):674-696. doi: 10.1177/0192513x231155673. Epub 2023 Feb 12
