[b]Son_Of_Fire wrote:[/b] [quote]It's fornication. The Bible specifically says fornication is a sin. From dictionary.com - voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other. Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,[/quote] Of course, what the Bible doesn't mention is that "fornication" comes from the King James Bible, and more specifically from the Latin Vulgate's "fornicatio" which means "performed in the archway," archways historically being venues for soliciting prostitution. Why do so many Christians feel the need to butcher the meaning of the Bible by using 21st century dictionaries to interpret words that originate from politicized 17th century translations? The prohibition of fornication is a prohibition against the solicitation of prostitutes. Try again. [quote]oh please lets just go by what the society has decided. There's no reason to complicate that. but if you really want to then go a head...[/quote] Isn't it funny that whenever people decry living in accord with society they don't ever really mean that Christians should truly be set apart, but rather they should merely ascribe to a limited set of cultural mores and all else is fair game? Premarital sex? Swearing? Terrible things. We're to be set apart from this world. Not act like them. Electricity? Motor vehicles? The gross and one-sided usurpation of the world's natural resources for the benefit of Western society's consumerist greed to detriment of millions of others? Totally cool. No need to change a thing. Dante