Many Christians Choosing Cohabitation Over God’s Divine Blueprint – prophecynewswatch.com

Did you know that 76 percent of young American adults below 32 years of age, consider living together before marriage as acceptable? And that 65 per cent of singles who intend to marry-including professing Christians-now live together before marriage?

These shocking statistics are based on a recent national survey conducted by USA Today, of 18 to 31 years regarding ‘cohabitation’ or ‘living together’ or ‘shacking up’ – all convenient euphemisms for lifestyles of fornication.

Larry Tomczak, in a recent report for the Christian Post, outlines some common excuses given by unmarried persons choosing to live together: “Look, times have changed. We have to face certain realities of living in the 21st-century. We’re older… more mature… been divorced… not ready financially… providing parents to a child… benefiting from tax incentives…have peace that God understands our unique situation…after all, look how many celebrities and even ‘Christians’ are doing it.”

Unsurprisingly, one thing that is clearly missing from all these arguments and excuses are Biblical references. Fortunately the Bible leaves no room for doubt or misinterpretation as to what God says about it. A few examples:

– 1 Corinthians 6:9 – Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind…

– 1 Corinthians 6:13 – Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

– 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 – Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

– 1 Corinthians 7:2 – Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

– Ephesians 5:3 – But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints…

The Biblical position is clear beyond doubt; one wonders how Christians would still be so easily deceived or confused into embracing secular practice, culture and worldly standards in the area of sexual morality. Either they are not being taught in their churches or are not reading the Bible for themselves. Most probably both.

The trend over time in the U.S, of the general slide into moral decadence in this area is well illustrated by the numbers. According to a report in the New York Times about a couple of years back, surveys showed that “… cohabitation in the United States has increased by more than 1,500 percent in the past half century. In 1960, about 450,000 unmarried couples lived together. Now the number is more than 7.5 million. The majority of young adults in their 20s will live with a romantic partner at least once, and more than half of all marriages will be preceded by cohabitation.