Living Together

[Jeanette19]

Is it necessarily wrong to live with someone? Like your boyfriend and or girlfriend? Just living together btw and not having sex. Bibically is it wrong?

If it leads you to sin it is.

[giantone]

If you like candy, living in a candy store is the place to be. though you will likely get diabetes and cavities.

lol funny, good analogy

Why living together at all before marrying? I mean, you can get fine known with each others without living together. And it is best to live separate till untill you marry, since one can a lot more easily get tempted to sin. And yeah, once you allow some sin to happen, you are open to allow a lot more. This is what often happens, and then it is easy to get yourself into an attitude as to justifying your sinning as not being so bad.

I do also beleive that it is wrong biblically, yet I don't know where in the bible it is written about this. Most of all, when a man and a lady lives together, it is very easy for any temptations to happen. Especially more dangerous if it is you and your boyfriend living together, then you already have a lot of feelings floating around in the air.

There is nothing specifically to living together. It becomes difficult as young women used to marry young.

[Israel]

For me, the problem is the definition of a physical marriage. Is it defined in the Bible as how we view it today? How so? Abraham is the father of faith but by our standards today, would he be considered a cheater? Isaac hat TWO wives. Jacob had two wives and two concubines.

If I were to stay with my "girlfriend" and be sexually active with her, am I breaking the law of God? How so? We are committed to each other before God who knows every secret thing. Is this fornication? How so?
She is no prostitute. Our relationship is not just for sex as I indeed provide for her in my house.

If marriage is defined by the world, then how would the world view Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob if they were living today?

It is adultery to be sexually active before marriage, for both you and her.

[Israel]

Originally Posted by DanuckInUSA

It is adultery to be sexually active before marriage, for both you and her.

Show me an example of this in the Bible.

[NodMyHeadLikeYeah]

I wouldnt live with a man before marriage because there unsanitary....

[Israel]

Originally Posted by NodMyHeadLikeYeah

I wouldnt live with a man before marriage because there unsanitary....

But to this I ask, what is marriage? Do you believe that Abraham had to stand before a priest to unite them in marriage? Do you believe Abraham had a certificate of marriage? I don't believe so. I believe he committed to her and she to him.

I believe that it is indeed unsanitary to sleep around with multiple persons. But to be committed to one person is not.

The issue is the guise of commitment used to enter a physical relationship.

[resurrection33]

Originally Posted by Jeanette19

Is it necessarily wrong to live with someone? Like your boyfriend and or girlfriend? Just living together btw and not having sex. Bibically is it wrong?

It is a sin to look lustfully on another person.

Technically, perhaps, if you can live with a boyfriend or girlfriend without looking lustfully at them, it is not a sin. Who would be able to do that?

Is that even possible>?

[Israel]

Originally Posted by DanuckInUSA

The issue is the guise of commitment used to enter a physical relationship.

Was not Adam and Eve a physical relationship? Abraham and Sarah? Isaac and his TWO wives? Jacob and his TWO wives and TWO concubines?

Again I ask, please show me in the Bible where marrige is defined by how we view it today?

Are you claiming each person is righteous in their union as the patriarchs?

[xJoe]

Honestly you just shouldn't do it.
And it will destroy your testimony. if you are or not having sex that is what everyone will assume.
Is anyone wrong with a male and a female living together? no it is not sin
But your putting yourself in temptations way. This is a really hard thing to decide on because in the Bible there was no dating. There was no getting to know your girlfriend and then falling in love after awhile then marrying. It was all arranged marriage. And you moved in with your wife after you became married.
Dating is a completely new concept. It's the middle ground between being married and single which never existed before.
In my ultimate thoughts towards it, it takes away from marriage. (living together before marrying)
The bible tells us to flee fornication. thess 4:3-7 and what people do is say anything but sex is sin. But in reality no, anything sexual with someone else besides your spouse is sin. Any sexual thought towards someone who is not your spouse is sin. You are not your own property. You belong to your future spouse and God. By sexual activity happening between someone who is not that it is sin against your future spouse and God.
By living together you do a two things. First off you put yourself in a extremely tempting atmosphere when the Bible tells us specifically to avoid it. If this person ends up nothing being your future spouse you take away the special moment of living with someone. same concept as sex before marriage. Been there and done that.
in my opinion, there is nothing beneficial about this nor anything that could be beneficial. that is why I would avoid doing it

[Israel]

Originally Posted by DanuckInUSA

Are you claiming each person is righteous in their union as the patriarchs?

What I'm claiming is that we place on ourselves heavy burdens that has been lifted in Christ. The patriarchs lived by faith. If Abraham thought as your typical Christian today, would he have slept with Hagar? Or would Isaac marry two women? These stories are there for an example to us.

1 Corinthians 6:13-19

13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

This is what TRUE marriage is. This is the TRUE meaning of fornication. These are spiritual. Shall we continue to fornicate with the whore talked about in Revelation?

[juliet84]

Living together is a blessing of marriage..Dont you want it to be special?

Joined by who?