by guitar_babe_09 on November 22nd, 2006

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Because i've never seen it stated in the bible, were adam and eve truly married. And if they weren't why are christians against pre-marital sex?

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by markrb on November 23rd, 2006
In Genesis 2:23-26, BEFORE the fall, God created man in His own image, male and female He created them and told them to "be fruitful and multiply". In Genesis 2:24&25, God said, "...a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his WIFE, and they will become one flesh. The man and his WIFE were both naked and they felt no shame.

Marriage is an institution that God established and we as humans have really messed up. Marriage doesn't mean "'til death do us part" anymore. Now it means 'til it's inconvenient, 'til I find someone else, "'til I decide that I maybe I want to be free", etc.

The Bible gives us rules to live by. If we follow the rules, we'll be OK, but if we decide that we know a better way then we will have to accept the consequences of our actions.
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- "In Genesis 2:23-26, BEFORE the fall, God created man in His
  own image, male and female He created them and told them to
  'be fruitful and multiply.' "
  Not quite: that was in Genesis 1:27-28
  
  "In Genesis 2:24&25, God said, '...a man will leave his
  father and mother and be united to his WIFE, and they will
  become one flesh.'"
  No, Adam said that, not God. "Naked and not ashamed" is a comment by the (Yahvist) writer, and he does not quote Adam or God for that. Still, being put together and told to reproduce by God himself is as binding a marriage as ever there was.
  
  Unless the rumors are true, and Eve really was his second wife.
  Look! Two different creations: 1:27 and 2:7-22.
  
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by Roger Kovaciny on November 23rd, 2006
The essential requirements for marriage are:

Eligible adult man and woman
Mutual consent
Promise to live together in lifelong faithfulness
Public ceremony

With God as the preacher, you have a ceremony with all the necessary elements recorded on the pages of Holy Scripture, which is about as public as you can get. So they were married.
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- But they didn't have rings! Well, they did, but not the sort of rings they would put on each other's finger (erm, we hope...).
  
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by AnonymousGirl on November 23rd, 2006
"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed." Genesis 2:25

"And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." Genesis 3:8

There are more references in the Bible which show that they were indeed husband and wife.

Christians are against pre-marital sex because one of the Ten Commandments is "Thou shalt not commit adultery." (Exodus 20: 14)

Hope this helps.
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- I would also note the numerous condemnations of fornication in the Bible. Fornication is specifically sex by people who are not married.
  
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  by Glenn Blaylock on June 2nd, 2007
- Unmarried sex by two unmarried people may be fornication, but it is not adultery. The one who is married is adulterous. The unmarried one is not.
  
  If both are married, but not to each other, then both are adulterers.
  
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  by Sandman on June 23rd, 2008
- Good point, Glenn Blaylock.
  Sandman, you're right. Now that you mention it, here is another verse (that Glenn Blaylock might have been thinking of):
  "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." - I Corinthians 6:18 (KJV)
  
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by pugwashjw65 on November 24th, 2006
They were married by God himself. God brought the woman Eve, to Adam. God spoke to them both in the garden of Eden. There would not have been exactly the same ceremony we see today. First of all, there were no witnesses. Only Adam and Eve and God.
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- Did we ever figure out who their children married?
  
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by sheenashark on November 22nd, 2006
God made them for eachother. It was a union created and overseen by God Himself rather than the appointed law which didn't exist at the time. Many laws and structures were set up later. God didn't state in the garden that they weren't to kill, steal, etc. because at that time man was without sin. He wouldn't have thought of touching someone God didn't give to him/her. But if you'll remember the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the only law which they were commanded to obey, sin changed everything in the world. And God made the first blood sacrifice fo their sin in one of His animals to clothe the newly realized naked sinners. There are also practical reasons why it is a bad idea to have pre-marital sex, but since that isn't asked I'll leave it alone.
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- Yes, there are lots of practical reasons for not having premarital sex. I have listed those in the nonreligious sections when questions about it have come up.
  
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by Im Alec has abandoned this account on November 23rd, 2006
It is widely believed that the apple from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil represents sex. I.e. the story of eating the apple is a euphemism for having sex. In which case, the reason that they got thrown out of Eden was precisely because they had premarital sex.

Presumably God only invented the institution of marriage later to handle the problem if Adam and Eve's children, and their wives who seem to have appeared out of nowhere.
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- Then why did He tell them in the garden to be fruitful and multiply? The Bible isn't against sex or children. Guess someone just wants to Biblically justify premarital sex in this question. Sorry, doesn't work if you believe the Bible.
  
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  by sheenashark on November 23rd, 2006
- The Bible never says anything about Adam and Eve commiting fornication. Adam & Eve were simply told in Genesis 2:16-17, "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Then later, in Genesis 3, the serpent tempted them and they fell into the trap and ate the fruit of it because they wanted to be as God was and know what evil was. The reason they were naked.. They were already naked... they just didn't know that before, and when they ate of the fruit, they knew... and were afraid and when God called for them, they tried to hide from their sin... what does this have to do with pre-marital sex? Seriously, I don't see how it even relates.
  
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  by AnonymousGirl on November 23rd, 2006
- Of course not, they were made of one flesh, the first marriage, and God told them in Genesis 1:28: 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
  So with this commandment, sex was obviously something created by God, not an accident that Adam and Eve exploited. So this answer is obviously wrong if you are coming from a truly Bible based belief.
  
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  by sheenashark on November 23rd, 2006
- God didn't invent marriage. Humans did.
  
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  by Penny The Wise on June 1st, 2007
- I am going to have to respectfully disagree with you Penny. I am also going to have to disagree with the idea of the Fruit of the tree being a euphemism for sex. One of the first commandments that God gave to Adam and Eve was to multiply and replenish the Earth. God created us so that reproduction requires sex. So, the idea that sex is inherently sinful (which is what this answer suggests since Adam and Eve are clearly said to have been married in the Bible) is to say that God gave them two contradictory commandments.
  
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  by Glenn Blaylock on June 2nd, 2007
- I agree with your statement about god giving them 2 contradictory commandments. But, at the time when Adam and Eve were "created"- there was no one else on earth, so marriage wasn't even necessary. WTH was he going to cheat with? Marriage was not created by "god", and the "first" marriage is debatable depending on your belief- though IMO no one REALLY knows when the first marriage really happened. I don't see it as being a necessity at that time, so why would it have existed?
  
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  by Penny The Wise on June 2nd, 2007
- See, AnonymousGirl's answer. The Bible refers Eve as being Adam's wife. She is not referred to as his concubine, girlfriend, paramour, lover, significant other, or any other such terms. She is referred to as his wife. This is a clear indication that they were married.
  
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  by Glenn Blaylock on June 2nd, 2007
- The deal is, no one was even there when that happened. They called her his wife because it would look bad to say otherwise. Humans wrote the bible many many years later- they would have no possible way of knowing. Look at a shoe, and write down that you are looking at a chair. Now, just because it's in writing it's true. Come on now, Glenn. You can't possibly be THAT naive, right?
  
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  by Penny The Wise on June 3rd, 2007
- Penny, that would be true if you did not accept the Bible as the word of God. However, if you accept it as the word of God, then the account of Adam and Eve was given to Moses by one who was a direct witness of the events in question. That witness was God. He directed Moses to use words that indicated the Adam and Ever were married and He performed the marriage.
  
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  by Glenn Blaylock on June 3rd, 2007
- And since I don't accept the word of a human, "As told to by "God""- you're right. I still think it's a crock, but that's neither here nor there.
  
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  by Penny The Wise on June 4th, 2007
- Penny:
  Here is an answer to your question:
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  "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake *as they were* moved by the Holy Ghost." - II Peter 1:21 (KJV)
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  "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and *from* the things which are written in this book." - Revelation 22:18-19 (KJV)
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  Now, I have a question for you. Why would whoever interpreted the Bible include the verses in Revelation there if they didn't truly believe it? If they truly did write whatever they felt like (regardless of what God wanted them to write), then they basically cursed themselves...
  You think someone would have joy in writing something like that?
  Interesting..
  You might be right, but I really don't think you are.
  I just don't see how because a lot of the sins that God is against are what we as humans NATURALLY do. The people who wrote the Bible must have had sins themselves, and to STILL include those verses in Revelation? .... eh, I'm not too sure that your statement holds true... to still include what it says in Revelation... don't you think they would have omitted it if they made things up?
  
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  by AnonymousGirl on June 23rd, 2008
- Because in those days people drank beer constantly and were more ignorant than "W" himself! People make shit up, and they did especially in those days. Especially in Catholicism, but I suppose that's another thread really...
  
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  by Penny The Wise on June 23rd, 2008
- How would you know? You weren't there.
  
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  by AnonymousGirl on June 23rd, 2008
- THAT. THAT RIGHT THERE, EXACTLY PROVES MY "GOD/JESUS" POINT. Now take your little 3 year old retort and apply it to your beliefs. Now, doesn't it all make sense?
  No I wasn't there and you weren't either. But it is widely known that they weren't exactly rocket scientists back then. ;) Try reading, it might help that little thing called ignorance.
  
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by Buttercup on March 2nd, 2009
They were married by God himself!
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by Amy on March 2nd, 2009
In answer to your question "why are Christians against premarital sex":

God made sex to be something beautiful, a source of joy and happiness. He also designed it to be within the commitment of a marriage. This is where it is at its best. And where it becomes a sign of unity and an expression of mutual commitment and love. Sex outside of marriage avoids commitment and intimacy, leaving us more lonely than ever - the kind of sex that can never "become one." God urges us to ":guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband." (Hebrews 13:4)

He also wants to protect you psychologically and to protect your body from disease--because he loves you. He laid down the rules so that you could have the best of life, complete happiness and fulfillment. God's plans for you are for your welfare and peace, plans to take care of you and give you a hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11) After all, he loves you so much he gave his very life just to be with you. He died so that you could live--so that you could have an "abundant", fulfilled, "complete", "real", "full", love-filled, eternal life---a life far better than you could ever have on your own (verse).

Let me quote Billy Graham, he says it well:

"...We have to have rules to live by. And what we're saying is we're going to play a baseball game without any rules, we're going to play a football game without any rules, we're going to live a life without any moral rules. Well God has laid down certain rules and said "If you want the best of life, if you want complete happiness and fulfillment, live by these rules.' And one of those rules is that 'thou shalt not commit immorality.'

"Most pychologists today and most psychiatrists I think would agree with the Bible, that there are very serious problems involved. God did not say 'thou shalt not commit immorality before marriage in order to keep you from having a good time or having fun.' He said that to protect you. To protect you psychologically, to protect your body, because today venereal disease is at an all time high dispite all of our problems and illigeitmacy is at an all time high inspite of all our medical science...And all of these things God has said 'I want to make you happy, I want to help you, and I've given you some rules to live by and this is the rules.'

"...The Bible clearly teaches that all sexual relations outside
marriage are wrong in God's eyes. The Bible bluntly says, "Flee from sexual immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). This includes any kind of sexual activity apart from marriage.

"Remember that God gave us the gift of sex in the first place—and He intended for it to be a source of joy and happiness for us. But He also intended for it to be restricted to marriage. Why? One reason is because it was to be a sign of the unity between a husband and wife. It was, in other words, meant to be an expression of their mutual commitment and love. But sex outside marriage easily becomes selfish, and even boring.

"God knows what is best for us, including this important area of our lives. Why ignore His way, when it is best for us in the long run? The Bible warns, 'There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death' (Proverbs 14:12) The Bible also promises, 'Blessed are they whose ways are blameless' (Psalm 119:1).

"...With God's help we can follow a far better path."

Hebrews 13:4:

"Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex."

Jeremiah 29:11 (combining the MSG and Amplified):

"For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace"/"to take care of you, not abandon you"/"not for evil"/"plans to give you the future you hope for."
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