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IMMORALITY DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS FORNICATION The Greek word “pornos” is the word for a man who commits fornication. Porneias is the word for “fornication” in the plural form: fornications, as it is used in I Cor. 7:2 of the KJV. The Apostle Paul exhorts men not to play around sexually with women (not even to touch them, v. 1), and to marry if necessary (I Cor. 7:8,9) instead of falling into the sin of fornication. See Mt. 19:9
In the physical sense, fornication (by a man or woman) is generally sexual immorality other than specific adultery as when a divorced (v. 15) man or woman marries. Adultery in itself assumes the constituents were not mere fornicators who may have legalized or not their relationship, but is a violation of a marital joining of God (Hebrew – Ex. 20:14: lo teenaf, Greek -- Ex. 20:13 and Mt. 5:27: ou moikaysace: do not commit adultery). The Hebrew word for whoredoms (fornications) is “zenunim”. In Hosea 2:4, 5, sexual immorality of a mother of the act brings judgment upon the children. God did not have mercy on them. However, God is a forgiving God to those who seek him. Today, we see the lack of blessing upon such children as they fall into drug addiction and other sins, lacking the parental integrity and direction for a pure life. Nevertheless, the erring youth can still call out to God in faith and be delivered. Fornication was a sin that called for capital or extreme punishment (Gn. 38:24) during the first law era. It brings God's judgment. Nations must penalize it. Legally, in most countries, the courts might not look that deeply into the relationship of marriage and divorce as to whether it is a legitimate marriage, especially as to the female being a virgin before her ceremony. Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, for instance, were both previously married but their first-marriage actual status concerning whether they ever had a clean marriage to begin with before their subsequent marriages has not been revealed. Nevertheless, their marriage cannot be clean considering their former sexual and marital relationships. Gloria would definitely have an issue of uncleanness unless her first husband did not use his penis, which is highly unlikely. Similarly, it would be very doubtful that Kenneth never touched his first wife. The word fornication can also be used in religious and mental terms of idolatry, worship of a false god. Another form of fornication may be adherence to a false doctrine: a teaching of a person perhaps even without physical defilement of the body but promoting fornication and things against sexual purity or faith, disregarding accountability to biblical commandments: spiritual or ideological fornication. ADULTERY What is adultery? Fundamentally, from a synoptical viewpoint, there are two distinct acts, the one subsequent to the other, which constitute adultery. The first act is a sin of "putting away" because the Scripture says the husband "shall cleave to his wife" (Gn. 2:24); and also, that no one should separate what God has yoked together (Mk. 10:9)--"one flesh" (Gn. 2:24). The second sinful act, "marry another," is subsequent to the first. It also contradicts I Cor. 7:10, 11. Whenever a man puts away a woman, he separates a unified entity which God has joined together. This act in itself does not constitute adultery. However, afterward, if he should marry, he commits adultery against her (Mk. 10:11, Lk. 16:18). Also, if a woman should put away her husband and marry another man, she commits adultery ( Mk. 10:12). Any man who marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery (Lk. 16:18). It seems to me, Lk. 16:18 is referring to a married female-virgin who is divorced, not an unclean woman as in Mt. 19:9. The acceptable, contemporary establishment and changes in law (torah) of sexual morality can be studied through the three eras of the Bible: The first law, the second law and the fulfillment era. Adultery was disallowed in the first law era. However, in the second law era Moses allowed remarriage because of the hardness of the people's hearts. Moses recognized the male owner's right of property and wives; however, his marital judgment was not as theologically pure and monogamous as his successor to come (Dt. 18: 15-18). The Lord Jesus Christ corrected the situation. Remarriage in terms of divorce and adultery or marital uncleanness whether it be fornication or male disregard of obligations to a former virgin female-cognizance is biblically not accepted in our day. It would violate the “oneness” and “pure cognizance factor” concept that Jesus implied speaking of Adam and Eve. An accurate biblical definition of marriage is better than national or state, legal definitions or implications. POLYGAMY Polygamy is the marriage of more than one wife at the same time and was encouraged in the first (Ex. 21:10) and second law eras. Monogamy became the Christian standard in our fulfillment era. Every bishop and deacon should understand this. We have heretics and Mormons in our time that disobey New Testament leadership and fail ministry. HOMOSEXUALITY AND SODOMY Sodomites (men lying down with men as with women) and c*cksuckers (penis-suckers) Some men have become so vile and perverse. They have given themselves up to fornication (ekporneu'sasai, Jude v.7) and have gone after strange flesh as the men of Sodom, Gomorrah and their surrounding cities. Perversity, if it is not stopped keeps growing; however, the Lord stopped it in that area and time, and made an example of such undergoing the vengeance of eternal fire. National governments must make provision to prevent their cities and places from becoming as such, even as some nations stop murder and rape crimes. The compound Greek word “arsenokoitais” (1 Ti. 1:10) can be broken down etymologically to arseno-male, and koitais-beds: generally males making their beds with males or males having coitus with males. As to the opposite gender, such same-gender sex types would include dikes and lesbians, although the feminine act against nature isn't mentioned specifically in this verse as it is n Romans 1:26. "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (Lv. 18:22) In our day of apostasy and sexual defilement, we have opposition against the Scripture in almost every way. Many innocent people have been abused through the promotion and neglect of the failed, Roman Catholic and other mainstream churches. The rape victim is not the freak of nature, the perpetrator is. Man can have a wonderful physique (such as Arnold Schwarzenegger ) or not, but if he lacks the desire for a woman only rather than a man, he is a pervert, not a natural man. Such detrimental people to society come in physical and intellectual forms with either thoughtful or passive condonation of such immorality. Benzion Mileikowsky (later Netanyahu) is an example of one of the intellectual forms of perpetuation: He said the people at Orlando were doing nothing wrong. However, the Bible proves he is incorrect. Men and women following perversion are in a bad state, and if they do nothing to deliver themselves from it or are reprobate, they are a broken link in the chain of moral society. This sin must be condemned by righteous people. "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." (Lv. 20:13) Today, we are no longer under the community capital punishment law, but rather under the era of fulfillment and grace. Nevertheless, Christians ought to develop institutions that would forbid the freedom of such perverts in any society. Such rapists, molesters and abominable persons should be penalized with harsh judgment. ORAL SEX Male on female: Sally Miller noted Bill Clinton as having precision mouth and tongue movement as he manipulated her sex organs and hormones. Nevertheless, disregarding persons, alleged “p*ssy-eater” (genitals-eater) Harvey Weinstein assumes even more blatant nastiness through such perversion with a menstruating woman. Germs and disease can be transferred through sex organs, let alone blood! Female on male: Monica Lewinsky received world infamy over her defiling act of sucking Bill Clinton's c*ck (penis). Either a man touching a woman's genitals or a woman a man's, it still may be considered a cognizance factor or part thereof, and have a deterrent effect as to marriage of a mate. Kissing and sucking a woman's breasts may be considered normal in a clean marriage, but oral sex is generally a deviation. Furthermore, the anal cavity of a woman must not be sodomized by a man: it is still abomination. GENERAL AVOIDANCE OF FORNICATION AND PERVERSION: MARRIAGE GUIDELINE Marriage is much more than "donut and hotdog". “25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;” (Eph. 5, AKJV). Marriage is related to the mystery of Christ and the church. Building marriage and community involves a partner helping the other to be pure in all ways of life. See Phil. 4:6-8. Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is undefiled. (He. 13:4) Pure sex is approved and nothing is wrong with it in marriage. However, the male must only go in where the God-designed end product (a child) comes out. Therefore, I believe only one donut (the vagina) is proper for the man. Oral-penal and anal-penal sex is a perversion. Eve, the first woman (implicitly a virgin) on earth, is referenced as an example of a natural and pure woman, having an acceptable marriage with the male Adam through coitus, meeting the purity requirements of both the new and old covenants. She did not have an ervat davar (uncleanness, Dt. 23), defilement or reason to be divorced. When she married Adam, through having sex and uniting physically and spiritually, her intellect and mentality changed, she obtained and possessed a one-male cognizance. Of course, the male who became intimate with her was Adam, the only other human being on earth. Intellectually, he became more than co-existent, he became one with her. They were a clean and undefiled, marital entity, a united body, each became part of the other, one flesh (Gn. 2:24), and they fulfilled the marriage institution, social and psychological adherence and oneness commandment: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”. Once the marriage is established and the one flesh becomes a narrative instead of the way a single person might live, the couple needs to maintain a love relationship and tweak it when problems arise when both members don't fully agree how to deal with them. A marriage is a fragile institution of God, requiring psychological unity among both participants, husband and wife. Any emotional break-up requires attention before it gets out of hand and gives opportunity for necessary separation and something worse to occur. Links: Thoughts on imagination and masturbation Learning and repenting of defilement and preparing for communion
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