{"id":26700,"date":"2011-03-14T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=26700"},"modified":"2020-11-03T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:23:17","slug":"if-you-say-pornography-is-not-fornication-are-you-not-accepting-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/if-you-say-pornography-is-not-fornication-are-you-not-accepting-pornography\/","title":{"rendered":"If you say pornography is not fornication, are you not accepting pornography?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry but I strongly disagree with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-looking-at-pornography-fornication\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is looking at pornography fornication?<\/a>&#8221; Not that I would divorce my future husband if this was the case, but that I would totally support a lady who does because when you&#8217;re married to a man, he is the only person who should be able to satisfy you. The same in the case of a lady. Pornography is a worldly abomination. Was it there when Adam married Eve? Was it there when people were making the spiritual history according to the Bible? I don&#8217;t believe this. I&#8217;m actually trying to make a minister of the church understand that his teaching is wrong. This is so foolish! Please try to understand it&#8217;s not good that you have this all over the web saying pornography is okay.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Instead of making your case from the Scriptures, you resort to a distortion of the truth. I never said pornography is acceptable. I have written a lot on the problems of pornography and the article referenced states repeatedly that sexual lust, such as pornography, and fornication are equally wrong. Viewing pornography is a sin. So is lying, murder, stealing, etc. But just because someone is involved in sin, it doesn&#8217;t mean a husband or wife can divorce their sinful spouse, especially not with the right to marry someone else (I Corinthians 7:10-11). The only reason for divorce that allows remarriage is fornication and the sin of pornography is not fornication (Matthew 19:9). This is why selecting a spouse must be done carefully &#8212; marriage is a lifetime commitment. That you don&#8217;t like God&#8217;s rules doesn&#8217;t change the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Your argument that pornography is a modern-day problem is false. Pornography existed in both the Greek and Roman societies and I&#8217;m sure the problem predates those cultures. The Bible talks about the problem using more general terms, but in condemning lust, the Bible is condemning pornography.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,\u00a0<strong>not in passion of lust<\/strong>, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified<\/em>&#8221; (I Thessalonians 4:3-6).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I&#8217;m sorry but I strongly disagree with &#8220;Is looking at pornography fornication?&#8221; Not that I would divorce my future husband if this was the case, but that I would totally support a lady who does because when you&#8217;re married to a man, he is the only person who should be able to satisfy you.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[167,1572,226],"class_list":["post-26700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-divorce","tag-fornication","tag-pornography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16840,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-pornography-a-just-cause-for-divorce-that-allows-remarriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":26700,"position":0},"title":"Is pornography a just cause for divorce that allows remarriage?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, I have recently begun a wonderful relationship with a lady friend.\u00a0 Over the last four months or so we have developed a wonderful friendship which has recently blossomed into a budding romance.\u00a0 However, she has, within the last six months or so, filed for divorce from her husband\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27249,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-know-my-wife-committed-adultery-after-she-filed-for-divorce-do-i-have-the-right-to-remarry\/","url_meta":{"origin":26700,"position":1},"title":"I know my wife committed adultery after she filed for divorce. 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