Why is sex a sin?<\/a>” You’ve addressed all the questions that always bothered me. Thank you so much. I also like the point you made that “sex before marriage is a sin because God said so.” It’s absolutely true that whatever He instructs us to do will benefit us ultimately. Jeep on posting more of such articles.<\/p>\n\tAnswer:<\/h2>\n
I’m glad the article was useful to you.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Wow! Really informative stuff in “Why is sex a sin?” You’ve addressed all the questions that always bothered me. Thank you so much. I also like the point you made that “sex before marriage is a sin because God said so.” It’s absolutely true that whatever He instructs us to do will benefit us…<\/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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,63],"class_list":["post-46336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37149,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/your-website-kept-me-from-sinning\/","url_meta":{"origin":46336,"position":0},"title":"Your website kept me from sinning","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I was searching on Google and found this website. 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