A young mans responsibility

Thank you for tempering your speech....softening your analogies.

This is why sexual sins are so grievous. Your verse in context, i.e. 1 Corinthians 6:15-20, discusses the body and how sexual sins affect us differently than any other sin.

I do not believe that this passage, however, is making a case for men to marry the prostitutes that they have sex with.

Yes. This is a picture of Christ and the church. A holy union ordained by God.

A man having sex with a prostitute is not a picture of Christ and the church. Nor is two teenagers having pre-marital sex in a seedy motel on prom night. What makes these so ugly is that they are pictures, if you will, of idolatry and betrayal. These unions aren't blessed by God.

I know that I am sounding like a nit-picky pest. :laugh:

But Exodus 22:16 isn't talking about a boy getting a girl pregnant. It's talking about a grown man who seduces or entices a young girl. Not a violent rape, but a seduction.

The whole chapter of Exodus 22 is about restitution. Verses 1-15 are about physical restitutions and verses 16-31 are about social restitutions and responsibilities.

Young girls got married pretty early back then. Many times to grown men. Today, we might call those relationships sick, but that's just one way that their culture was different from ours and it was not unseemly for them. Possibly, this is why marriages were social contracts, arranged by the parents or arranged by the man and the girl's parents. It protected the girl from marrying an abusive man.

If a grown man saw a young girl that he liked and enticed or seduced her into having pre-marital sex with her that was wrong according to the law. And Exodus 22 is part of the civil code that tells how to make restitution when you do something wrong.

The law said that he must marry her, unless her father objects. Why would he object? He must not be that great of a guy if he goes around seducing young girls. But he still had to make financial restitution to the family. Sort of like what we do today in civil court. This wasn't rape, so he couldn't be charged with a crime, but is was still wrong, so he owes the girl compensation. In those days, the money went to the father.

This is another passage in the civil section of the Law that is not describing a picture of Christ and the church nor is it describing a holy union ordained by God. It is again describing restitution.

There is an obscene amount of sex going on.....all kinds of sex....that is not representative of "what God hath joined together".

Again, referring to your citation of 1 Corinthians, this is why fornication, rape, adultery, molestation, beastiality, teenage pre-marital sex, pornographic films, and homosexuality are so horrid....not just physically, but for what they represent spiritually.

The pure sexual relationship of a christian man and woman who are married represents a spiritual relationship between Christ and His Beloved Church. What then must all these other types of sexual sin represent? Idolatry....blasphemy.....betrayal of God.

 

That's fine. I will concede the point that ages are not mentioned in the verse, but they are implied. Man - young virgin (unmarried girl).

And I will concede that age is not relevant to the purpose of that particular law.

However, I still assert that this passage is about restitution and not about two people in love and committed to building a home and family together.

I believe in the nuclear family. I believe that children should be raised in the security of a home with a mother and father.

However, when that secure Godly environment is not going to be found in a 14 year old girl and the 16 year old boy that have been having sex in the back of a car, other options should be considered such as adoption, raising of the baby by a family member, and/or raising of the baby by the teenage mother and her mother until the girl is mature enough to marry - whether she marries that particular boy, whom she has stopped having sex with, or whether it is someone else.

Whether they marry or not, they should stop having sex and the young boy is at a minimum financially responsible for that child as long as the mother is physically responsible for him.

Children raised in an enviroment of immature married teens who have no clue how to treat other as husband and wife and who are still dependent on their parents for all of their own needs and who depend on the grandparents to raise the baby and who are divorced in a year anyway is not a biblical family. It is a devastating tragedy. Tragic far beyond fornication.

Two people who do not love each other and have no intention of even trying to create a environment of a Godliness in their home make horrible parents and create horrible homes. They have no business having sex and they have no business getting married.

Fornicators do not need to get married to absolve themselves. They need to repent and stop fornicating to do that. Weddings do not absolve them of their fornication and weddings do not make a marriage.