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What is "sexual immorality"
There are definite biblical restrictions on sexual acts which are broader
called sexual immorality (Greek "porneia"). These are:
1) Sex during women's menstruation. Lack of hygiene for nomads in the desert
(lack of clean water) could lead to dangerous infections -"unclean" in ENGLISH
refers to filth/dirt/etc., but in Hebrew, it refers, as validly, to RITUAL
impurity it was a "sin" (spiritual impurity) to do such.
2) Adultery which biblically was understood by the Hebrews to mean wrong for a
married women to have sex with another man since violated her husbands property
rights. A man could marry when he was age 12. It was never understood to be
wrong for a married man since his wife had no such rights. The married man could
have as many wives (as long as women was at least age 13) and concubines
(breeders) as he wished as long as "other women" were not married (another man's
property). Certainly there is nothing wrong with by agreement between man and
wife, sharing sexually with others as in polyamory or swinging since no property
of cheating issue. Nothing ever was wrong with singles sexuality. "Fornication"
is a total mistranslation lie of Greek "porneia"
3)Sexual Idolatry as in using the temple prostitutes for pagan fertility goddess
worship. Or, doing the same with the golden calf and having sex to praise it as
a god when Moses came down. Porneia as used in I Cor 6-9, falsely translated in
some bibles as fornication was actually the practice of the prostitutes in the
Temples of Corinth selling their services as a part of pagan fertility goddess
worship which was what Paul was warning against. Not even specifically about
prostitution but used as a pagan sexual goddess worship.
Corinth was one of the sex capitals of the world. Corinth was even a Metaphor
for Fertility. "Corinthian girl" meant prostitute, "to play the Corinthian"
meant to visit a prostitution house. (see "Things They Never Told You In Sunday
School: A Primer For The Christian Homosexual" by Rev. David Day, pg. 108)
The major deites at the time was Aphrodite, goddess of fertility, and Cybele,
the Mother Goddess. The worshippers of Aphrodite worked as prostitutes in the
temples.... these temples held over one thousand prostitutes. The purpose of
these prostitutes was to earn money for the temple and to worship Aphrodite
(they used sex as worship). So over 1,000 prostitutes were cultic, and that's
just from the worshippers of Aphrodite
Nothing in the bible ever said there was anything wrong with non-goddess
"common" prostitution which was common and often mentioned with nothing negative
about it. Tel Aviv Today is the brothel capital of the world since prostitution
just isn't a biblical issue for Jews and its legal in Israel as it is in almost
all the world outside the U.S.
4) Pederasty - one of the worst of all sexual sins that took various forms: The
practice of pederasty falls into three distinct styles. First is the
relationship between an older man and a young boy. Second is the practice of
slave prostitutes. Third is that of the effeminate "call boy" or male
prostitute. Other practices included a heterosexual male degrading another
heterosexual male by anal intercourse after capturing them in battle. Another
practice was heterosexual's using anal intercourse to drive out other
heterosexual strangers they didn't like such as the case of the Sodom story. It
had absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality which is simply being as God
designed some people to be.
Beyond these 4 there is no biblical basis for any other definition of porneia,
or sexual immorality.
Christ taught in the Sermon on the Mount that the only law is the law of love.
He demonstrated this by reversing four of the OT laws which conflicted with
loving people. Therefore anything that was hurtful, not by mutual consent etc.
would be immoral for a Christian, but obviously not loving sexuality regardless
of marital status or natural sexual orientation.
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