{"id":42940,"date":"2014-06-13T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=42940"},"modified":"2022-02-04T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:38:17","slug":"god-told-me-that-if-two-people-love-each-other-then-sex-before-marriage-is-not-a-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/god-told-me-that-if-two-people-love-each-other-then-sex-before-marriage-is-not-a-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"God told me that if two people love each other, then sex before marriage is not a sin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>God has told me if two people love each other then sex before marriage is not a sin. I&#8217;m a healer and I asked God to take away my gift if he was not happy with me having sex with my boyfriend and guess what? I can still heal. You need to get on your knees and cry out to God for forgiveness.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works<\/em>&#8221; (Revelation 2:20-23).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Israelites were given tests so as to know who was a true prophet and who was not. One test was that since God does not contradict Himself, any prophet claiming to have a new revelation that contradicted God&#8217;s teaching was immediately known to be a false prophet. &#8220;<em>If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, &#8216;Let us go after other gods&#8217; &#8211; which you have not known-&#8216;and let us serve them,&#8217; you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst<\/em>&#8221; (Deuteronomy 13:1-5).<\/p>\n<p>Since God has clearly stated that having sex outside of marriage (fornication) is sinful, you have documented that you are not a follower of God. &#8220;<em>Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge<\/em>&#8221; (Hebrews 13:4).<\/p>\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>[Since this person falsely claims to prophesy, I left her response here unedited.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God is not even a Christian. For your Information. I pray to God and he answers them 99% of the time so who are you to tell me I dont follower of God. God knows I&#8217;m on his side. I know I love God and God knows too that is all that matters.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.<\/em>&#8221; (John 14:22).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God<\/em>&#8221; (I Corinthians 6:9-10).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: God has told me if two people love each other then sex before marriage is not a sin. I&#8217;m a healer and I asked God to take away my gift if he was not happy with me having sex with my boyfriend and guess what? I can still heal. You need to get on&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":[34,1572,169],"class_list":["post-42940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-false-teaching","tag-fornication","tag-prophecy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1814,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-sexual-acts-should-not-be-committed-before-marriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":42940,"position":0},"title":"What sexual acts should not be committed before marriage?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"September 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What sexual acts should not be committed in a relationship before marriage? 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