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Premarital sexual relations and masturbation of any sort is a sin. It is commiting adultery, which would be against one of the ten commandments. I believe that homosexuality is also a sin because God created Adam and Eve for one purpose, and it was for Adam ( representing men w00t ) and Eve ( representing the women ) to reproduce and to be married. Note that they are of opposite sex. God created two different genders for one of the genders to ask the other to marry and produce children, not for one gender to ask someone of the same gender to marry.

Premarital sex is a sin, and adultery is definately a sin, but premarital sex is not adultery.

It doesn't depends on how we look at it. That's what the Postmodern thought wants to bring to our minds, that everything is relative. We are not the ones who give salvation. We are not the judges. Our God is a God of absolutes. What does the Bible says about 'once saved, always saved'?

1. Someone who calls himself a Christian, but does not behave as a Christian (or later says he's not a Christian), was NEVER a Christian. No matter how much he affirms it. The Bible says it clearly: "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us." (1 John 2:19)

Clearly, this verse says that if someone is a true Christian, he would remain a Christian.

2. No one can snatch the sheep of God out of His hands. Jesus said in John 10:27-28: "My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand." Those who God saves, can't be unsaved, for salvation implies having eternal life, and if salvation is lost, then said life wouldn't be eternal. If said life wasn't eternal, then it wasn't salvation, so we go back to the verse of 1 John 2:19.

Thus, the Bible would be a lie, and as we know, the Bible is the Word of God: The God who calls Himself "the way, the truth, and the life."

3. Final thing: The "Christianity" of the modern era is characterized for being more focused on feelings rather than on the truth. Because of this, some people call themselves "Christians" because they "feel the presence of God in their hearts." The Bible NEVER, NOT EVEN ONCE, says that if we feel something inside us, we are Christians. NO, my friends. That's a lie of the devil. What the Bible says is that "by their fruit you will recognize them" (Matthew 7:20).

I hope I clarified your doubts with this. 3nodding

oddly enough for a guy who thinks that every indulgence is a good idea and who has probably had more permarital sex than anybody else on this guild, i still would advise caution in that area of ones life. i sometimes think that i threw my virtue away too readily so my oppinion on this is pertty much "too far" is exactl;y where you set it personally. if something is making you feel awkward or downright bad, the best answer is don't do it. on the other hand what does the advice of a heretic count for on this guild?

See that people who call me evil? it turns out i'm one of those necisarry evils so there xp