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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Premarital sex
Message-ID: <1176@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 03:09:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 03:09:33 1984
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I would like to have the net's response to the subject of premarital sex
-- how everyone feels about it in relation to their religious/spiritual
beliefs.  

A friend of mine (non-Christian) was speaking with another friend
(Christian) who was telling him that the Bible gives a law banning
sexual intercourse between Christians until they are married.  My friend
did not believe him, so he gave him these verses:

"Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please
God, as in fact you are living.  Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord
Jesus to do this more and more.  You know what instructions we gave you
by the authority of the Lord Jesus.  

It is God's will that you should be holy; that you should avoid sexual
immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body* in a
way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen,
who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his
brother or take advantage of him."  --1 Thessalonians 4:1-6, NIV

At the *, there is a footnote stating, "or learn to live with his own
wife or learn to acquire a wife".

I'd like to hear from as many people as possible, by direct reply or
followup.  I hope it doesn't generate a lot of flaming ... I'm just
basically looking to see what other people's opinions are.

-- 
--greg
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