Does Christianity allow sex before marriage?
Yes – emphatically yes – to both questions. Christianity makes it clear that premarital sex is encouraged and says the same about masturbation, urging believers to do both as often as they wish. Enjoy! PS The Bible makes it clear that there should be no anal until after marriage. Try to keep that in mind, although it’s more of a suggestion than a law.
Fornication is the incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman; adultery; incest; a forsaking of the true God and worshiping of idols (Webster). Fornication could also be defined as “the gratification of sexual appetites without respect to marriage or the necessity of God’s approval” (Bunnell). The Bible uses this term as a general description for immorality (Mt. 5:32; 15:19; 19:9; Ac. 15:20,29; 21:15; Ro. 1:29; 1 Co. 5:1; 6:18; 7:2; 2 Co. 12:21; Ga. 5:19; Ep. 5:3; Co. 3:5; 1 Th. 4:3; Re. 9:21). Like adultery, fornication is also used in a spiritual sense to describe turning from God to serve false gods (Eze. 16:29-34; Re. 2:21; 14:8; 17:2,4; 18:3; 19:2). The Greek word translated fornication is porneia, from which the English word “pornographic” is derived.
There are no rules other than: If a person believes that Jesus is the Son of God, was born of the virgin Mary, and was crucified on the cross to redeem the sins of anyone who believes in Him, that person is redeemed and therefore called a “Christ”ian. You know, “believes in Christ” = “Christian”. The whole sex thing, well, you know it’s wrong, but mainly it’s irresponsible and disrespectful to yourself, your partner, the potential child that could result, and your parents. It is in the same category as are all of the other sins, sin. To this I refer back to the “redeem” portion of my answer above.
