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I haven’t seen anyone in the comments try to justify your actions from a chrisitian point of view. I’ll try and likely fail. I’m a former chrisian.

There is no “thou shalt not lust after a woman” commandment. There is a “thou shalt not commit adultary” commandment. And there is the admonition from Mathew that if you lust after a woman you’ve already committed adultary in your heart.

But here’s the rub. How do you define adultary? ANY sex? Or cheating on a spouse? If you define it as cheating on a spouse, then I can see where Mathew is coming from. A married man lusting after a woman who isn’t his wife HAS emotionally cheated on her already. But by that definition, a single man CAN’T commit adultary with a single woman. There’s no cheating. Prostitute or not, two single consenting adults don’t break that commandment.

I believe extremists like to push the commandments to encompass more than they really do.

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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s moot considering prostitution is already specifically condemned.

1 Corinthians 6:15-18

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

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ShankShill@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, … they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21

Also former christian

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- Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There are so many direct contactios in the Bible. So if you actually care, which side do you pick and why is that side correct but not the other?
  
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There was no contradiction here. The original commenter was using the argument from silence to try and justify premarital sex. But that’s irrelevant as prostitution is condemned anyway
    
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    Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    John 8
    
    8 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
    
    2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
    
    3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
    
    4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
    
    5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
    
    6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
    
    7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
    
    8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
    
    9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
    
    10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
    
    11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
    
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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I don’t think adultary means “sex outside of marriage” I think it means “sex outside of marriage”. Big difference.

Maybe I’m dumb but I don’t see the difference here?

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- pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think that they meant to write something like:
  
  I don’t think adultary means “sex while unmarried” I think it means “sex outside of your marriage”. Big difference.
  
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  - sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That makes sense.
    
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- yaroto98@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yea, sorry. “No sex outside of marriage” was a phrase I’d heard a lot growing up inside Christianity. I was making a joke that this particular phrase could be interpreted either way. As in no unmarried sex. Or no sex with people you’re not married to.
  
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