what are the biblical punishments for fornicators?
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death, usually by stoning I think.
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Mathew 5:27-28 "You have heard it said that you shall not commit adultery BUT I say to you that everyone who looks on a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart". So much for pornography.\nSex for pleasure (outside marriage) I Corinthians 6:9 "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God.  Do NOT be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, .....  will inherit the kingdom of God".   So much for fun sex.
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ROMANS Chapter 1\n26 That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; 27 and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error.\n28 And just as they did not approve of holding God in accurate knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mental state, to do the things not fitting, \n\nHOMOSEXUAL IS WRONG.
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Psalm 37:38 "But all sinners will be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off."  NIV\n\nJude 1:15 " To judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."  NIV\n\nRevelation 21:8 "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.  This is the second death." NIV (New International Version)\n\nP.S.  lust is also a sin - \n\nMatthew 5:28 " But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."\n\nProverbs 6:25 "Do not lust after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
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There is more to the rape law. Back up to Deuteronomy 22:23-24 (NAB) \n\n"If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife."\n\nNow, if you read Judges 21:10-24, Numbers 31:7-18, Deuteronomy 20:10-14, Deuteronomy 21:10-14, Deuteronomy 22:23-29, 2 Samuel 12:11-14, Judges 5:30, Exodus 21:7-11 and Zechariah 14:1-2, it's pretty clear the God actually APPROVES of rape and even uses it as a reward for his minions.\n\nIf you actually read the Bible, you'll find that God really doesn't give a whooping fundt about women. Women are property.\n\nWhat you are reading in Deuteronomy 22:28-29 is property law. Raping a mans betrothed is not about whether it is right or wrong to rape someone. It is about the punishment for devaluing another mans property. If you read very carefully, you'll notice there is no prohibition on raping a woman who is not betrothed, that is to say, the property of another man.\n\n-SD-
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Judeo-Christian tradition has taught for thousands of years:\n1. Single people should be celibate.\n2. Married people should be faithful to each other (adultery is wrong).\n3. Married couples should welcome God's gift of children and, therefore, artificial birth control was against the will of God.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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The bible does not say that.  \n\nFROM DIGNITYUSA.ORG\n\nWhat was the point of the Bible texts if not to condemn homosexuality? \n\nIt is not easy to summarize briefly the body of research on homosexuality in the Bible. But these are the interpretations that some scholars are proposing:\n\n•The story of Sodom in Genesis 19 is about offense against the sacred duty of hospitality. That is how Ezekiel 16:48-49 and Wisdom 9:13-14 interpret this text. The attempted male rape only heightens the atrocity of this offense. \n\n•Leviticus 18:22 does forbid male-male sex as an "abomination." But the word simply means an impurity or a religious taboo — like eating pork. As in the case of Catholics who used to be forbidden under pain of mortal sin to eat meat on Friday, the offense was not in the act itself but in the betrayal of one's religion. The ancient Jews were to avoid practices common among the unclean Gentiles. \n\n•Romans 1:27 mentions men having relations with men. But the terms used to describe them are "dishonorable" and "shameless." These refer deliberately to social disapproval, not to ethical condemnation. Moreover, according to Paul's usage, different from the prevalent Stoic philosophy of the day, para physin ("unnatural") would best be translated "atypical" or "beyond the ordinary." So it bears no reference to natural law. And it can imply no ethical condemnation because in Romans 11:24 God is said to act para physin. Paul sees gay sex as an impurity (see Rm. 1:24), just like uncircumcision or eating forbidden foods. He mentions it to make the main point of his letter, that purity requirements of the Jewish Law are not relevant in Christ Jesus. See L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, and Sex. \n\n•1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:8-10 list arsenokoitai among those who will be excluded from the Reign of God. This obscure term has been translated "homosexuals" but its exact meaning is debated. It certainly does not include women but only some kind of male sexual offenders. If it does refer to men having sex with men — which is dubious — it must be interpreted in light of the abuse and licentiousness commonly associated with male-male sex in the Roman Empire. See Robin Scroggs, The New Testament and Homosexuality. \n\n•Finally, Genesis 1-3 shows Adam and Eve created for mutual companionship and procreation. These accounts use the most standard of human relationships to teach a religious lesson. The point is the love and wisdom of God, who made all things good and wills us no evil. Nothing suggests the biblical authors intended a lesson on sexual orientation.
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Under strict Catholic doctrine, this would still be considered fornication.
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This is a good website that helps clarify:\nhttp://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/adultery.html
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Matthew\n\nThose who bear bad fruit will be cut down and burned "with unquenchable fire." 3:10, 12
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Fornication is a great sin and illegal too.
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read hebrws 13:4"Marriage is honarable among all, and the bed undefined; but for fornicators and adultterers God will judge".Also Hebrew 5:5 "For this you know, that no fornicator; unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater. has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." I hope this helped.
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Western people? Not all non-Muslim people have decided that multiple sexual partners is okay. Fornication and pre-marital sex is rampant because Jesus said of the end time "It will be as it was in the days of Noah." He was right. In Noah's time: \n\n1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, \n\n 2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. \n\n 3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. \n\n 4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. \n\n 5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. \n\n 6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. \n\n 7And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. \n\n 8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.\n\nLove in Christ, ~J~ <><
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For the same reason everybody else fornicates. Christians get horny too!
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No it is not.  It is called the sin of fornication.  That is what sex before marriage is called.  Certainly a true Christian would not be actively engaged in sex before marriage.  A true Christian, who made a mistake, would be repentant and try not to be doing it anymore.
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The Bible says "Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."  Deuteronomy 19:21\n\nGandhi said: "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind".\n\nThe Bible suggests "an eye for an eye" as an actual standard for punishment.  If Joe injures Bob and Bob becomes blind in one eye, then Joe will be punished by having one of his own eyes blinded.\n\nGhandi argued that this approach is wrong.  My interpretation of what he meant is that If a world where one person loses an eye is bad, to have two people lose their eyes is worse.  Violence by the state is just as bad as violence by the person.\n\nLinks take you to the Bible quote and to the wikipedia article on Gandhi.
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Absolutely  much worse  read  Romans   1:21-2:9  under the Mosaic law  the person commiting the Adultery was  taken outside the city and stoned to death  and the other offended mate  was  free   to then get on with their life  however  with adultery of the same sex   both of them are taken outside  the city and stoned to death  then taken to the valley  of hinnom  and thrown  in the burning  garbage dump  instead of given a decent burial   as it was considered such a disgusting  obscenity against the laws of Both God and Man and such a heinous act that those practicing  it werent fit to be giving a decent burial   whereas the one who commited adultery with some one of the oposite sex  died  but was given a proper burial     Gorbalizer