if you have sex before marriage(like many people do today) then you are forniciating and if you dont stop and repent then you will go to hell.
For this you know,[a] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Ephesians 5:5
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 1 Corinthians 6:9
No man in and of himself can quit any fleshly acts of self desire through one's puberty and leads ot not only harm oneself but others along the way. And because of the flesh not caring and only will care for those that care for them, just can't see this.
so God brought in the Law that is just, true holy and perfectly correct. Now when it flowed or flows thorugh any flesh and blood we become quilty are not able to perform, not perfectly ever.
So God in God's Mercy over sacrifice, gave the ultimate sacrifice of his Son to give Mercy to all those that believe and those that have recieved Mercy give Mercy and agianst such is no Law. The Law of Love is Mercy and one will not do those things that you spoke of as being harsh.
The believers appreciate what God has done for them in advance before any of us here were ever born, and our response is thank you so deeply and praising so much for this amazing gift that there is no time for sin consciousness as was iin the Old Testament having to sacrifice year after year to be clean.
Those days are over and if one wants to live righteously, the only way is through Christ. We as beleivers are no more that partakers of his righteousness in the Spirit of given to us by the resurrected Christ to those that believe and God has approved knowing what is in our hearts, whether pure or of their own desire. for this is how we will be judged by our motive(s)
And prostitutes will enter in before the self righteous ones
[h=3]Matthew 21:28-32[/h]King James Version (KJV)
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28 [/SUP]But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
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29 [/SUP]He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
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30 [/SUP]And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
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31 [/SUP]Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
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32 [/SUP]For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.