Is it Ok for Christians to commit fornication?

Question

Some must think so. I keep hearing an argument on R&S that the restriction on blood in Acts chapter 15 was only temporary, and that it only applied to certain gentiles. According to some, the older men in Jerusalem thought that gentiles eating blood would be offensive to the Jewish converts. Because of this and this alone, a temporary restriction on eating blood was given to these gentiles. (However, in the letter sent by the older men, the words "gentiles," "Jews," or "temporary" are not used.)

If we look at Acts 15:28, 29, we can see that the restriction was not limited to blood. It included foods sacrificed to idols, meat that wasn't bled properly, and fornication.

If the restriction blood was temporary, then the restriction on fornication must also have been temporary.

So, is it Ok for Christians to commit fornication?

Answer 1

Yes.

And your argument is a Straw man if I ever saw one.

JWs don't know what  straw man argument is though, so this might not help you.

Answer 2

No, nor is it ok to take a blood transfusion.  

" but to write them to abstain from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood."   Acts  15:20    

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, and they are fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, 20 idolatry, practice of spiritism, enmities, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, contentions, divisions, sects, 21 envies, drunken bouts, revelries, and things like these. As to these things I am forewarning YOU, the same way as I did forewarn YOU, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.  Galatians 5:19-21

Jehovah does not differentiate, what is wrong is wrong in his eyes.  Fornication and taking blood are both gross sins against ones own body, showing a great disrespect for the life he has given and to him, the giver.  

Answer 3

No. We fall short from the glory of God. We need Jesus for our salvation

Answer 4

i think that making love to someone we really care about is a spiritual as well as a sexual act.  i think one needs to be careful and be monogamous, though.  it would be so horrible to get a s*x disease.

scripture can be interpreted so many many different ways.  Go by what God speaks to you in your own inner higher self.   as for me, i have a loving relationship with God, and feel guilt free in making love to a man i am in love with.  i am a christian, just not your every day traditional one.  i am one that can think for myself and get God's guidance on my own.  your fundamental christians are going to tell you no, sweetie.  decide for yourself and pray about it.