The Bible Says: Is it wrong to have sex outside marriage?

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THE BIBLE SAYS: IS IT WRONG TO HAVE SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE?

Below are the Scriptures that many people are conflicted about.

What do you think?

Is it wrong to have sex outside of marriage?

Yes: Ex 20.14, Dt 5.18
No: Hos 1.2-3, 3.1

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Is it wrong to have sex before marriage?

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1.2-3) Technically applies to adultery -God tells Hosea to commit adultery, saying “take … a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms” So Hosea did as God commanded and “took” a wife named Gomer.
Marriage as currently defined (lifelong, monogamous, in many places heteronormative) is not appropriate for everyone; we are told that "it is not good for man to be alone;" are we then to consign those whose lives don't conform to the way we happen to be defining marriage at this particular historical moment to a solitude that God Himself condemns? Or is it better to acknowledge the sacred potential of sexual intercourse and embrace every individual expression of that sacrament, even if it does not conform to our human institutions and intuitions? I would urge the latter.
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Brien’s articles for FāVS generally revolve around ideas and beliefs that create unhealthy deadlock divisions between groups. He has received (minor) writing awards for his short stories and poetry from the cities of Portland, Oregon and the city of (good beer) Sapporo, Japan. In 2010 he was asked to present several articles for the California Senate Committee “Task Force for Suicide Prevention” and has been published by online magazines and a couple national poetry anthologies in print form.

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