[From Newsday]
The Omaha Archdiocese has severed ties with a Jesuit university’s family center after two researchers urged the church to allow unmarried couples to live together and have sex and children as long as they are engaged. The Creighton University researchers’ essay, published in the June issue of U.S. Catholic magazine, said that more unmarried Catholic couples are living together today, and that they doubt the claim that the couples are living in sin.
Read about it here.
[From me]
Ephesians 5:3 says: But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
What Bible are these people reading? Just because people are doing something doesn’t make it right. If a church, ministry or believers are going to be serious about serving God we must live by His laws.
What do you think?
Filed under: Christian, Hypocrisy, church, ridiculous, sinful behavior, single adults
That is a powerful and often overlooked verse. Which part of “not even a hint” do they not understand?
It must be the same version that all of these “Christian” cohabitating couples who live in my community must be reading. Hmmmm…..
Kevin, I commented on this story as well. I hope you don’t mind the link back to my site.
Basically, we once again see people who want the Church to adopt the ways of man instead of man adopting the ways of God.
What’s worse, getting divorced or “living in sin”?
Geekwad, if it is an un-Biblical divorce then the answer would be, “They are both bad.” The earthly consequences would depend on the specific circumstances but both situations involve defying God. I suppose one could argue that a divorce would be more a big one-time sin and that living in sin would be a continual, “in your face, God” kind of sin.
If the divorce were Biblical (e.g., the other spouse commits adultery) then the divorce isn’t a sin at all.
I assume you weren’t implying that “living in sin” is some kind of divorce-preventative, as the facts prove otherwise.
Geekwad,
Yes.
Geekwad,
Exactly!
Which law of God was Solomon obeying, with his zillions of wives and concubines? The biblical hyperbole states that he was the wisest man of all time- but having that many mothers-in-law doesn’t sound too clever to me.