Premarital & extra-marital sex are forbidden in the Scriptures along with other immoral activities.

Hebrews 13:4 - "Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge"

I do have a practice that I found very beneficial, especially when people say things about others. (Let us say that when people talk about a person when he/she is not present.) I ask the person who carrys the information, "How do you know this?" When I receive an answer, I ask, "Why do you think that happened?" After hearing the answer, I ask, "Did you discuss this with the other person before you sahred this information with me?" Then I will say, "You should talk to that person first and not to me. If you insist on not talking to the person concerned but talking only to others, then you are a tale bearer and that is forbidden in the scriptures."

We need to be careful in making a general accussations. Therefore, we need to inquire.

Our character is to be formed while we are young. We should learn good habits. Is it Christian to make general accussations, and then refuse to subastantiate them with evidences? Therefore, we must inquire.

That is all I will say about this.

I very much suspect that MS. SusanMathews is some young frustrated person trying to vent it out here.

Just because there are a couple of abnormal cases among us, it does not mean that we simply exaggerate. The figure [nowhere in the world] is 40% and I would love to see documentation if you prsist with this figure. I will also change my stand about numbers if you can demonstrate.

The question has several components, and it will help us to answer the question better if we understand the components first.

We need to answer this question because it is repeatedly put in front of Christians, and unless we are well-informed, we cannot give a reasonable answer.

dont bug people with unnessasary and absolutely worthless posts
im surgeon and being nice i donot wish tp prpose the teratment we give for uncontrolled psychotics

i know one family. they chose to neglect their grandson due to the fact that they do not want to be the talk of the people and talk of the church.Their son was so afraid that he rather wanted to have the baby aborted rather than see his parents frustrated and see peoplemock them,

Sometimes, it's the society that kills our senses of doing what is rightful despite the mistake done prior to that.

What is the problem with that? It happened in accident and the people who committed those have learned their lesson and had been forgiven by God and turned back from what they used to do. but it's just frustrating that some people.. would resort to mistakes and wrongdoings in order to cover up the previous mistakes.

Now, who to blame? They all go to church pretending they dont know anything but at the end ofg the day, each will be judged accordingly.

Good thing the girl never aborted the baby and has very good education background with a new challenging career. She was abandoned. Yes, the son lived but don't you think he need a father? If only people are not so narrow minded and more of a people pleaser than a God pleaser.

Let's al;l help people see the light and not let then carry their own crosses as if it's doomsday for them. Even Jesus in the Bible was once criticized for helping someone on a Sabbath day but he replied that the person already needs immediate help. Why prolong the agony?

logically speaking? ther is always a chance in God. Let's not be self righteous people.

We should follow God not because we fear Him but because we love Him and He deserves it more than anyone else in the world.

Now, this girl and his son has to face the problem on their own,

by the way : issue is also about interracial premarital sex that lead to impregnation. Keralite guy prefers todie than disown by Bible believing parents due to shame.

(sigh). Now, who reads the Bible?

to avoid the circumstances like that... say NO to premarital sex no matter how sure one is to marry their partner.

It's more of a respect to the one who created us - our Lord.

We never knew how would other Bible believing Christians to react. They might forgive the esence of forgiveness and ridicule those people.

prevention is better than cure.

Besides, i never seen one who has told that theynever regret premarital sex.

Just learn from the experiences of other people.

 What do mean by for sure that you will marry, Bible clearly speaks the issue of worrying about present not tommorrow. We have no idea what will happen next, so how can we pretty sure that we will live next moment. So please don't do any thing which is prohibited now of thinking that you will be fine tommorrow. Bible strictly say no to pre-marital sex, it means whether you are engaged or marriage is fixed, you are supposed to wait till right moment come. God first created family and than blessed Mankind with union of flesh. So there is no excuse or justification for what you want to do. Argue the right question and think straight based on Bible.

Dear friends,

My elder was kind enough to loan me this. This survey and report was published in 2008 by the Barna Group. The folks who were surveyed lived in N. America. By the statistics you can see, the divorce rate is still a very high number.

Now in India, the rates might be lower but its highly unlikely any close family member is going to volunteer that information because of our 'shame-based' society and culture. The numbers are increasing but unlike some folks - so called 'generational leaders' of the denomination would have us think otherwise - the reality is that premarital sex, extra marital sex, pornography, alcoholism, abortion, divorce, homosexuality, living together before marriage etc are on the increase in our current social media generation.

Many in our denomination, call themselves 'leaders' - I hope they take the lead to address these issues. It takes a lot of humility to accept the fact that the denomination has fixable moral and spiritual issues that requires investment in the current generation..

Divorce Among Adults Who Have Been Married

(Base: 3792 adults)

Population Segment	Have Been Divorced	No. of Interviews
All adults	33%	3792
Evangelical Christians	26%	339
Non-evangelical born again Chrisitans	33%	1373
Notional Christians	33%	1488
Associated with non Christian faith	38%	197
Atheist or agnostic	30%	269
All born again Christians	32%	1712
All non born again Christians	33%	2080
Protestant	34%	1997
Catholic	28%	875
Upscale	22%	450
Downscale	39%	367
White	32%	2641
African-American	36%	464
Hispanic	31%	458
Asian	20%	128
Conservative	28%	1343
Moderate	33%	1720
Liberal	37%	474

(Source: The Barna Group, Ventura, CA)

 premarital sex and homosexuality are sins

"He lay with her and she became his wife" "why unite with a harlot"?  Guess what, u seal the deal with sex, not some silly ceremony and vows!

IF YOU DON'T HAVE REAL CONFESSION IN YOUR HEART YOU NEED TO FACE THE CURSE WHICH WILL COME FROM GOD, EVEN DAVID ALSO CANT'T ESCAPED FROM THAT, THEN HOW U AND ME, OUR GOD IS HOLY HE IS EXPECTING US ALSO TO BE HOLY