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5 days ago · Masturbation is practiced far more than adultery or fornication, yet God is practically silent on the issue. This ought to tell you that God is not overly concerned with it...However, let me caution you against addiction to masturbation.
4 days ago · There are many biblical passages forbidding premarital and extramarital sex: whenever “fornication” or “licentiousness” or “immorality” or “sexual immorality” or “sexual vice” (various translations) are mentioned.
1 day ago · Hence it is correctly translated as ‘fornication’ or ‘immorality’ but what does it actually mean? Today, this exception is cited in support of considering a wide range of sexual sins as legitimate causes for divorce and remarriage, from affairs to pornography addiction, but this interpretation runs smack into the problem of the disciples’ reaction.
1 day ago · On the Sacrament of Marriage. Metropolitan Seraphim (Joanta) of Germany and Central Europe. God is love (1 Jn. 4:8), the holy Apostle John the Theologian says. God is the unity of three Persons. Love can manifest itself and develop only in community, in the unity of personalities. God created man in His own image so that man could become like Him.
1 day ago · 1 Corinthians 6:18 instructs, “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”. This verse highlights the importance of avoiding sexual immorality, which includes cohabitation without the commitment of marriage.
17 hours ago · The root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man.” 128 But in the heart also resides charity, the source of the good and pure works, which sin wounds
1 day ago · The cantillation (taghbir) of Qu’ranic verses was not to be understood as song or entertainment, which are strongly associated with the forbidden practices of drinking wine, gambling, and fornication (Q5:90).
