Sexual Sin or Harmless Diversion? | Genesis 39:9

[@Abracadabra208]

I also find it telling that you will condemn what mutually consenting adults do when it comes to creating or watching pornography, but not examples in the Bible of the Israelites slaughtering other tribes and taking their young girls as war brides. Imagine your family being killed and then being sexually coerced by a member of the conquering force. No woman can meaningfully give consent in those circumstances. How is THAT for sexual immorality?

[@MakeNoProvision]

I am not the one "condemning what mutually consenting adults do when it comes to creating or watching pornography." I am using God's Word, the Bible, to condemn pornography. Men and women sin all the time in mutually consenting ways, but that doesn't make their sin OK. God has a standard for sexual relations, and that standard forbids pornography.

[@Abracadabra208]

And what about taking virginal girls in marriage after killing their family? That was my other topic.

[@MakeNoProvision]

I have nothing to say about that.

[@Abracadabra208]

@@MakeNoProvision That makes the rest of us wonder where your priorities lie on the matter. By not even addressing it, you create an opening for us to assume that you consider what two mutually consenting adults do in their bedroom to be more morally heinous than killing a family in another tribe and abducting the daughters. You won't confirm it, but neither are you denying it. The very act of not answering my query, in and of itself, still says a lot.

[@MakeNoProvision]

OK, @Abracadabra208

[@Abracadabra208]

Aside from the non sequitur nature of your argument, you seem to forget that the Bible, and the Old Testament in particular, does not categorically condemn sex outside of marriage. Many Old Testament patriarchs and kings had concubines in addition to a wife, and the Bible writers did not condemn each of those instances.

[@MakeNoProvision]

Thanks for your comment. Actually, the New Testament condemns sex outside of marriage. Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians that men and women are to exercise self control where sexual desire is concerned. If they can't, they are to marry.

[@Abracadabra208]

Were the Old Testament figures, then, sinning when they took concubines?

[@MakeNoProvision]

I have nothing to say about that.