I will not have sex with this post until I marry it!

For some reason today my coworker was on the website www.gotquestions.org. Apparently this is a website that is set up in case you have any questions about god, Jesus, the bible, or theology.

For some reason my co-worker printed me out a sheet with this question answered on it: What does the bible say about sex before marriage / premarital sex? I think premarital sex is probably a fun thing to do and I hope some day god willing I can have it. What I found interesting was the answer this website gave.

The article states this:

"There is no Hebrew or Greek word used in the Bible that is precisely defined to refer to sex before marriage. The Bible undeniably condemns adultery and sexual immorality, but the question arises, is sex before marriage considered sexually immoral? According to 1 Corinthians 7:2, “yes” is the clear answer, “But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.” In this verse, Paul states that marriage is the “cure” for sexual immorality. First Corinthians 7:2 is essentially saying because people cannot control themselves and so many people are having immoral sex outside of marriage, people should get married, so they can fulfill their passions in a moral way."

And for reference here is what Corinthians 7:2 says: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

IT seems like the bible was way ahead of the curve in understanding people who are married do not have want to have sex. So kudos to them for that. Seriously though this line from the bible does not really make a clear case for sex before marriage being immoral but rather sex in general being immoral.

What notion I find rather absurd was how this statement goes on to conclude in the first paragraph that "people cannot control themselves and so many people are having immoral sex outside of marriage, people should get married, so they can fulfill their passions in a moral way."

I know it is not a popular principle to actually do any critical thinking of issues like these when they come from a large institution you have been told not to question and place your absolute faith in but come on this makes no sense. How can an act that has the same intent whether it is in a marriage or outside any more immoral either way.

So if I have sex with someone thirty seconds before I get married to them (which would double the amount of actual time I can have sex) it is immoral but if I start fucking the bride instead of kissing her after we are pronounced man and wife that is somehow different?

I guess marriage is one of those institutions where there are exceptions to some rules like if you are in the army you can kill people or if you are a famous person who directed the movie Passion of the Christ you can blame every war on the Jews.