I can tell you that being born and raised a Baptist, I know that any Baptist will tell you that it is wrong. The Bible speaks very specifically on sexual immorality, but I have never read anything about actually living together. I would think ( not saying that i am right ) it would be alright as long as you werent having any kind of fornication. Please do more research than just my answer to the question. If you do find in the Bible someplace saying that it is wrong then please respond, because i would like to know.

I guess I'm narrow minded too, because I know what the bible says about it. Because the Bible is for Baptists our only measure of what is right and wrong, and every word of the Bible is true, correct, and profitable for doctrine, what it says goes. The Bible mentions fornication many times, always in a negative light. It is a sin. It is contrary to what God wants us to do. Another sin is lust, which is where all sins begin. There is only one time where the lust for the flesh is said to not be a sin. When a couple, Husband and Wife, are married. See Hebrews 13:4 "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers will be judged." Adulterers are those living together too, not just cheating husbands. Jesus says in Matthew 5 that adultery can also be only in your mind. Guilty is guilty, even in thought only. As far as the official position of the church, ask your Pastor, and his answer will mirror the Bible's every time, unless he's a methodist or something. Also consider the following: Even if you are just living together and there is nothing physical happening between you, see 1 Thessalonians 5:22 " Abstain from all appearance of evil." There is good news for you though! If you already are living together, all you have to do is get married, and ask for forgiveness! God will forgive you every time. 1 John 1:9, one of my personal favorites says this: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unritghteousness." Make your confession to Him, and get right. Then go find you a good Independent Fundamental Baptist Church and join up.You will learn how to answer any question. I am sorry but the comment submitted by jervinator screams for more info. The only Bible I believe is the word of God is the King James, aside from the original recieved texts. Since I can't read Hebrew or Greek, I will go with the translation that has stood up to skeptics for 400 years, with no proof of errors anywhere in it. You are right about the "political" bibles and other versions. They have been "retranslated" by man many times and are suspect for that reason. There should be no copyright on the word of God, as it is to be shared freely with anyone, look it up, only the King James isn't copywrited. The King James Bible makes no mention of a "Lilith" being Adam's first wife. As a matter or fact,the name Lilith is not even in the King James. Remember that even the devil can quote scripture when it suits him, and clouding your mind about the truth is his #1 job. Do not allow false doctrine to send you to hell, throw away that retranslation you got that from and get a real Bible.With a little prayer you will understand every word.

While I don't know that the Bible says specifically not to live together, it does say to avoid the appearance of evil. Would Christians living together before marriage prevent a bad testimony? 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. Also, we are told that it is for the purpose of marriage alone that a man ever leaves his parents. What other purpose should there be? Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Fornication: in Greek it's "porneia" where the word porn comes from... illicit sexual intercourse and includes adultery. But Solomon is considered one of the wisest men ever alive (i agree, read Proverbs). And he was with many women, a real pimp. And then what about Abraham and Hagar the woman he slept with before he had Isaac. She was not his wife and he was very favored by The Lord... The Bible is very clear about adultery would never question that. -"for jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ranson; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gift." Proverbs 6:43,35 kjv -"for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge. He will not accept any compensation; he will refuse the bribe, however great it is." Proverbs 6:34,35 niv I have prayfully battled this sex before marrige thing for a long time. I can't find anywhere in the Bible where it says not be with someone you love. So if I'm truly in love with some one, is it realy wrong? *please note, I'm not saying going out to clubs and having a one night stand, thats plain obvious. But if you have love and your not getting carried away in just lust? But on a end note -"Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside the body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirt, who is in you... Therefore honor God with your body." 1 Corinthians 6:18-20

There is no such thing as "the Baptist Church." Persons who call themselves baptists may be Bible-believers or quite modernistic. So there would be no uniform position by persons who call themselves "baptist." Those baptists who consider themselves Biblicists, like Biblicists in general of any denomination, would reject fornication as a sin, and one of the sins which heads the list of the lusts of the flesh in Galatians 5, and one of the specific sins mentioned as evidencing that a person is heading for the Lake of Fire (along with liar, BTW!). The word "love" gets into the discussion; but so far as I know, Greek is the only language that rightly distinguishes quite different attitudes/emotions which are confused under one rubric in English. It is one thing to have a hormonal drive for someone, another thing to be fond of someone because the person merits approval, and quite a third thing to just seek the best for someone else (not really an emotion at all): agape love. To have sex with someone outside of marriage is not seeking that person's good, but most likely a hormonal desire; particularly a desire to feel a chemical rush throughout the body following an orgasm. If a couple decide that they want to live together and fornicate on a regular basis, this does not seek the person's good either, as there is no good beyond the Lord (as Psalms says, "I have no good beyond Thee." Therefore, those Baptists, as well as other Biblicists, will reject shacking up, as not a subcategory under "loving neighbor as self."

Don't do it! Would Jesus do it? Trust God!