Perhaps the greatest problem of Christianity today is that many of the messages of Christ have been perverted with time. Much like a game of telephone, the word of Salvation has been perverted by translations and various political interests across millennia. Most of what people believe about Christ's teachings today is actually nothing like how it was practiced in the first Century AD following the immediate death of Christ. As to how or why the gospel of Christ became distorted will be the subject of many future posts, but for now I want to focus on just one perversion which I believe is causing many Christian men to suffer tremendously, especially in today's day and age of the "empowered" slut.
This issue, is, of course, the supposed sin of "premarital sex." By the end of this article, I will have shown there is absolutely no text in either the New Testament or Old Testament prohibiting premarital sex. I will have shown that the only sexual sins for men according to the Bible are:
1. Using whores (this includes internet porn!)
2. Rape
3. Incest
4. Adultery (cheating on one's spouse)
5. Homosexuality
6. Beastiality
And that's it. For women, there are a different set of sexual sins, but that's another topic for another day. Let's just focus on men for now.
To prove this, let's examine what presently passes for common knowledge among Christians. If you google, "is premarital sex as sin," one of the top hits is a Protestant website called gotquestions.org which attempts to offer guidance on many moral questions, including their position on premarital sex (screencap):
The above view that premarital sex is sinful is very common. I grew up believing it was sinful myself, and it caused me great anguish. However, after doing careful research I can see us Christians men have been mislead for centuries. To prove this, as with any Biblical exegesis, it comes down to the text. Without scripture to support a position, there can be no claim to authority.
Thus, let's start with each of the scriptures cited above. To show how the message of Christ has been corrupted over time, we will compare the popular translation of the New International Version (NIV) to Young's Literal Translation (YLT) which shows how words have been changed against their original intent.
Notice, the literal translation is completely different from what the actual text says in Koine Greek (this was the original language used for the NT), and it is only condemning prostitution! In ancient Koine Greek, the word used above was pornia, which is what the modern word porn is based on. Pornia only referred to sexual crimes listed above: adultery, rape, incest, whoring, and homosexuality, but especially for prostitution. Premarital sex was never mentioned back in the day because women did not engage in casual sex back in 0 AD. Things like birth control pills, STD medication, and on-demand abortion did not exist. Sex was a very valuable commodity, and to waste it on casual sex would have been seen as profligacy (such as burning down your house for fun). The only way men could get sex in those days without committing a crime was to either rent out a prostitute or buy a wife.
Continuing with the passages listed by the Protestants above:
Again, we see here that what is "sexual immorality" in modern translations is merely whoredom in the original.
Again, the original word is whore and here St. Paul is talking about making a whore out of one's mother which is obviously both incestual not to mention ridiculously perverse - a father selling his wife to his own son?
Same mistranslation, once again. Also notice how often whoring is mentioned? Whoring is seriously bad for the soul, according to St. Paul - an apostle - so the beta males who are using porn because they can't get a real woman are damaging themselves far more than alphas who don't need porn but can score with sluts.
I've quoted enough of Corinthians for the reader to get the point. Let's move onto some other works.
Here the literal translation is almost completely different than the modern one and makes me a bit depressed at just how bad it is. Notice the sins: cheating on your spouse, selling your body, not taking regular showers, and deliberately provoking lust out of others. Notice, the word lasciviousness could be interpreted to never approach a woman you desire since she may feel provoked into lust - but that would be taking the word too far since at this point it would mean it could be sinful to merely speak to a woman. Provoking lust is more of a direct action, such as a woman wearing short skirts, bathing suits, or for a man to wear a speedo. There is a difference between displaying beauty and being vulgarly sexual, as the etymological dictionary of lasciviousness reveals. Intuitively lasciviousness is a female dominated sin. A man taking off his shirt could be considered lascivious but it depends on the context; in most cases it would not.
It's like the NIV version doesn't even try to capture the original intent of the text here.
No mention of sex for its own sake but there is the mention of passion. Passion could be interpreted as wanting sex because a man is horny, but look at all the words next to it: whoring, evil desire, uncleanness, covetousness which is idolatry. In other words, it's not simply desiring a beautiful woman in itself which is sinful, but desiring a woman to the point where you're willing to pay for sex from her or you desire her so much only you can have her and no one else can which makes passion sinful.
Interestingly enough, infatuated oneitis is sinful. I bet you never knew oneitis is a sin according to the Bible, but now you do.
Same translation error.
Homosexuality and whoring. They were selling themselves as men to other men and going after other flesh means beastiality.
And that's all the scripture the Protestant page of gotquestions.org has to offer. As you can see, the sexual sins mentioned for men, are, time and time again:
1. Using whores (this includes internet porn!)
2. Rape
3. Incest
4. Adultery (cheating on one's spouse)
5. Homosexuality
6. Beastiality
No mention of premarital sex; that is, a woman having accepted a man's advances. In another article, I will show that it is sinful for the woman to accept the man's advances without securing some kind of commitment, but it is not sinful for the man to make the advances or engage in consensual sex in the first place. Indeed, we all know how much St. Paul is loved by the Protestants, so why do the Protestants ignore the following passage?
I can't think of a single thing more emasculating than a single, unmarried man who does not pursue or sexes a woman he desires. On the contrary, if it is not the effeminate man who shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven, then we know the masculine man is what God wants. Not homosexuals, not weaklings who pursue married women, not men who masturbate to porn or purchase disgusting whores, but masculine men who go into the world and takes the beautiful unmarried girl. Thus what the Protestants teach on premarital sex is wrong.
So much for the Protestants. What about the Catholics? Believe it or not, the Catholics are the ones to blame for starting the tradition of anti-sex Christianity which the Protestants unknowingly inherited.
To show this, let's head on over to the Vatican's website and view what their Catechism has to say:
Now, we come to crux of the problem. The word "fornication," which is how the Catholics translate many of the original works of the Bible when the word "pornia" is used, does not mean what most people think it means. Indeed, thanks to a translation error by St. Thomas Aquinas, we find how the giant telephone game of Christian teachings became perverted over time.
But first, just to show how deep and confused even the Catholics are about their own teachings, let's examine a part of the text of the catechism itself (screencap):
First, note that there is a typo right on the Vatican's site. "the" is not capitalized at the start of the second sentence. This careless error is a microcosm of the great error I am about to show you: the word fornication. Notice, they use the word fornication, but notice that in all of the translations above fornication is not used. Where does fornication come from? Notice, the Vatican says it quotes the Letter to the Galatians. They provide a link which leads to the following text (screencap):
So, oddly enough, right within the Vatican's own catechism the word prohibiting sex is missing from their own citations! And if one follows their links provided to other parts of the Bible, no mention of the word fornication is found. For example, they cite Matthew 15:8 (screencap):
And the word fornication has been mysteriously replaced with the word unchastity!
Thus, we are left with the mysterious addition of the word fornication introduced into the Bible with no citations or translations provided.
Therefore, since the Vatican is covering up some sort of error, let us turn our attention to what the common believers of Catholicism tell others as they have been taught growing up. I googled up http://www.catholic-defense.com, and here's what they have to say about premarital sex for men (screencap):
And now we reach the conclusion of the puzzle. Thomas Aquinas, the most influential, intelligent, and greatest of philosophers and theologians of the middle ages, is at the bottom of this telephone game, who wrote his major works in 1260-1275. Notice he quotes from the Book of Tobit (or Tobias): "keep thyself... from all fornication," but what does fornication mean?
Let us check an etymological dictionary (screencap):
We discover the word fornication did not take on its present meaning until 1300 AD, several decades after Thomas Aquinas wrote his authoritative works! Fornicators originally referred to men who went to the place "under the arch" (the fornix) which is where the street whores hung out at night in Roman towns. The word fornication, in the few places it does appear within the Bible, it still just talking about prostitution and not premarital sex!
It appears Thomas changed the meaning of the word fornication, either on purpose or accident, due to Catholic biases at the time given to him as a child most likely. Remember, one of the major differences between the Western Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church that helped drive the great schism of 1054 was the role of sex within the clergy. The Catholics always held negative attitudes on sex, and it was generally frowned upon priests to marry and have children. Conversely, Eastern Orthodox held no such bias but prohibited any rank higher than a priest within the church from marriage. The Catholics wanted everyone to be like St. Paul, who was an asexual and called his ability to have no desire for women a "gift" that allowed him to preach the word of God tirelessly. The Eastern Orthodox, however, held no such pretensions that 99.9% of males could ever achieve this.
The Eastern Orthodox, tragically, ceased to be an influence in 1200 AD because of the Fourth Crusade. The darkest event in all of Christian history, when Christians betrayed Christians, came about as Catholic Crusaders sacked, pillaged, and raped the richest city in the world, Constantinople, also the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Most of the booty taken from Constantinople was then brought to the Vatican, who then ruled over Europe with an Iron Fist for the next 500 years because they had so much of the wealth of the old Roman empire.
When Thomas Aquinas wrote his works in 1260 AD, there was no serious challengers to the Catholic school of thought as the Eastern Orthodox Church was mortally wounded and still bleeding out (200 years later they would be fully conquered by the Turkish Muslims). Aquinas, being the intellectual champion of the Catholics, was taken to be an authority and no one seriously noticed or cared about his use of the word fornication and the word fornication entered the common lexicon as meaning "sex in general" instead of "using prostitutes." Combining all of the above with the fact that 95% of Europe was illiterate at the time Aquinas wrote his works, and it makes sense word fornication was changed without anyone's notice.
Thus even when the Protestants rebelled against the Catholic church, they still assumed the word fornication meant "sex in general" instead of it's original use as just "buying a whore." And this is how the telephone game of Christ's teachings were perverted over time, by various political forces and human error.
I must comment that this error in teaching has been a tremendous burden on my own life, as even I was raised believing sex before marriage to be a grave sin I would need to repent for. But now that the internet has arrived, men can enter a new age of knowledge where the combined research of millions of men can be put together to form a complete picture of what happened in the past and where we must go in the future. So, unless I have made an error in the work above, I hereby state all Christian men to be the masculine man they were always meant to be, and fulfill their sexual desires without any restrictions other than the following:
1. Using whores (this includes porn!)
2. Rape
3. Incest
4. Adultery (cheating on one's spouse)
5. Homosexuality
6. Beastiality
Of course, there are many other sins a good Christian man should avoid when dealing with the opposite sex that would apply to interactions with all people, such as lying, but it's beyond the scope of this post to cover everything. More will be explained in the future. For now, as it is written, "the truth will set you free, for the truth is the light of God."
This issue, is, of course, the supposed sin of "premarital sex." By the end of this article, I will have shown there is absolutely no text in either the New Testament or Old Testament prohibiting premarital sex. I will have shown that the only sexual sins for men according to the Bible are:
1. Using whores (this includes internet porn!)
2. Rape
3. Incest
4. Adultery (cheating on one's spouse)
5. Homosexuality
6. Beastiality
And that's it. For women, there are a different set of sexual sins, but that's another topic for another day. Let's just focus on men for now.
To prove this, let's examine what presently passes for common knowledge among Christians. If you google, "is premarital sex as sin," one of the top hits is a Protestant website called gotquestions.org which attempts to offer guidance on many moral questions, including their position on premarital sex (screencap):
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Question: "What does the Bible say about sex before marriage?"
Answer: There is no Hebrew or Greek word used in the Bible that precisely refers to sex before marriage. The Bible undeniably condemns adultery and sexual immorality, but is sex before marriage considered sexually immoral? According to 1 Corinthians 7:2, “yes” is the clear answer: “But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.” In this verse, Paul states that marriage is the “cure” for sexual immorality. First Corinthians 7:2 is essentially saying that, because people cannot control themselves and so many are having immoral sex outside of marriage, people should get married. Then they can fulfill their passions in a moral way.
Since 1 Corinthians 7:2 clearly includes sex before marriage in the definition of sexual immorality, all of the Bible verses that condemn sexual immorality as being sinful also condemn sex before marriage as sinful. Sex before marriage is included in the biblical definition of sexual immorality. There are numerous Scriptures that declare sex before marriage to be a sin (Acts 15:20; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13, 18; 10:8; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; Jude 7). The Bible promotes complete abstinence before marriage. Sex between a husband and his wife is the only form of sexual relations of which God approves (Hebrews 13:4).
The above view that premarital sex is sinful is very common. I grew up believing it was sinful myself, and it caused me great anguish. However, after doing careful research I can see us Christians men have been mislead for centuries. To prove this, as with any Biblical exegesis, it comes down to the text. Without scripture to support a position, there can be no claim to authority.
Thus, let's start with each of the scriptures cited above. To show how the message of Christ has been corrupted over time, we will compare the popular translation of the New International Version (NIV) to Young's Literal Translation (YLT) which shows how words have been changed against their original intent.
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Corinthians 7:2 (NIV): Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
Corinthians 7:2 (YLT): And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman, 2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
Notice, the literal translation is completely different from what the actual text says in Koine Greek (this was the original language used for the NT), and it is only condemning prostitution! In ancient Koine Greek, the word used above was pornia, which is what the modern word porn is based on. Pornia only referred to sexual crimes listed above: adultery, rape, incest, whoring, and homosexuality, but especially for prostitution. Premarital sex was never mentioned back in the day because women did not engage in casual sex back in 0 AD. Things like birth control pills, STD medication, and on-demand abortion did not exist. Sex was a very valuable commodity, and to waste it on casual sex would have been seen as profligacy (such as burning down your house for fun). The only way men could get sex in those days without committing a crime was to either rent out a prostitute or buy a wife.
Continuing with the passages listed by the Protestants above:
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Acts 15:20 (NIV): 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
Acts 15:20 (YLT): 20 but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
Again, we see here that what is "sexual immorality" in modern translations is merely whoredom in the original.
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1 Corinthians 5:1 (NIV): It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 5:1 (YLT): Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --
Again, the original word is whore and here St. Paul is talking about making a whore out of one's mother which is obviously both incestual not to mention ridiculously perverse - a father selling his wife to his own son?
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1 Corinthians 6:13 (NIV): You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 6:13 (YLT): the meats [are] for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body [is] not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
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1 Corinthians 6:18 (NIV): Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 (YLT): 18 flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.
Same mistranslation, once again. Also notice how often whoring is mentioned? Whoring is seriously bad for the soul, according to St. Paul - an apostle - so the beta males who are using porn because they can't get a real woman are damaging themselves far more than alphas who don't need porn but can score with sluts.
I've quoted enough of Corinthians for the reader to get the point. Let's move onto some other works.
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Galatians 5:19 (NIV): 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
Galatians 5:19 (YLT): 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Here the literal translation is almost completely different than the modern one and makes me a bit depressed at just how bad it is. Notice the sins: cheating on your spouse, selling your body, not taking regular showers, and deliberately provoking lust out of others. Notice, the word lasciviousness could be interpreted to never approach a woman you desire since she may feel provoked into lust - but that would be taking the word too far since at this point it would mean it could be sinful to merely speak to a woman. Provoking lust is more of a direct action, such as a woman wearing short skirts, bathing suits, or for a man to wear a speedo. There is a difference between displaying beauty and being vulgarly sexual, as the etymological dictionary of lasciviousness reveals. Intuitively lasciviousness is a female dominated sin. A man taking off his shirt could be considered lascivious but it depends on the context; in most cases it would not.
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Ephesians 5:3 (NIV): 3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
Ephesians 5:3 (YLT): 3 and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
It's like the NIV version doesn't even try to capture the original intent of the text here.
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Colossians 3:5 (NIV): 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Colossians 3:5 (YLT): 5 Put to death, then, your members that [are] upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --
No mention of sex for its own sake but there is the mention of passion. Passion could be interpreted as wanting sex because a man is horny, but look at all the words next to it: whoring, evil desire, uncleanness, covetousness which is idolatry. In other words, it's not simply desiring a beautiful woman in itself which is sinful, but desiring a woman to the point where you're willing to pay for sex from her or you desire her so much only you can have her and no one else can which makes passion sinful.
Interestingly enough, infatuated oneitis is sinful. I bet you never knew oneitis is a sin according to the Bible, but now you do.
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1 Thessalonians 4:3 (NIV): 3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:3 (YLT): 3 for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
Same translation error.
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Jude 1:7: (NIV) 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:7: (YLT) 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.
Homosexuality and whoring. They were selling themselves as men to other men and going after other flesh means beastiality.
And that's all the scripture the Protestant page of gotquestions.org has to offer. As you can see, the sexual sins mentioned for men, are, time and time again:
1. Using whores (this includes internet porn!)
2. Rape
3. Incest
4. Adultery (cheating on one's spouse)
5. Homosexuality
6. Beastiality
No mention of premarital sex; that is, a woman having accepted a man's advances. In another article, I will show that it is sinful for the woman to accept the man's advances without securing some kind of commitment, but it is not sinful for the man to make the advances or engage in consensual sex in the first place. Indeed, we all know how much St. Paul is loved by the Protestants, so why do the Protestants ignore the following passage?
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1 Corinthians 6:9 (YLT) 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
I can't think of a single thing more emasculating than a single, unmarried man who does not pursue or sexes a woman he desires. On the contrary, if it is not the effeminate man who shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven, then we know the masculine man is what God wants. Not homosexuals, not weaklings who pursue married women, not men who masturbate to porn or purchase disgusting whores, but masculine men who go into the world and takes the beautiful unmarried girl. Thus what the Protestants teach on premarital sex is wrong.
So much for the Protestants. What about the Catholics? Believe it or not, the Catholics are the ones to blame for starting the tradition of anti-sex Christianity which the Protestants unknowingly inherited.
To show this, let's head on over to the Vatican's website and view what their Catechism has to say:
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III. The Different Kinds of Sins
1852 There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: "Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."127
1853 Sins can be distinguished according to their objects, as can every human act; or according to the virtues they oppose, by excess or defect; or according to the commandments they violate. They can also be classed according to whether they concern God, neighbor, or oneself; they can be divided into spiritual and carnal sins, or again as sins in thought, word, deed, or omission. the root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man."128 But in the heart also resides charity, the source of the good and pure works, which sin wounds.
Now, we come to crux of the problem. The word "fornication," which is how the Catholics translate many of the original works of the Bible when the word "pornia" is used, does not mean what most people think it means. Indeed, thanks to a translation error by St. Thomas Aquinas, we find how the giant telephone game of Christian teachings became perverted over time.
But first, just to show how deep and confused even the Catholics are about their own teachings, let's examine a part of the text of the catechism itself (screencap):
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There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. the Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: "Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, [...]
First, note that there is a typo right on the Vatican's site. "the" is not capitalized at the start of the second sentence. This careless error is a microcosm of the great error I am about to show you: the word fornication. Notice, they use the word fornication, but notice that in all of the translations above fornication is not used. Where does fornication come from? Notice, the Vatican says it quotes the Letter to the Galatians. They provide a link which leads to the following text (screencap):
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Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
So, oddly enough, right within the Vatican's own catechism the word prohibiting sex is missing from their own citations! And if one follows their links provided to other parts of the Bible, no mention of the word fornication is found. For example, they cite Matthew 15:8 (screencap):
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For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, false witness, blasphemy.
And the word fornication has been mysteriously replaced with the word unchastity!
Thus, we are left with the mysterious addition of the word fornication introduced into the Bible with no citations or translations provided.
Therefore, since the Vatican is covering up some sort of error, let us turn our attention to what the common believers of Catholicism tell others as they have been taught growing up. I googled up http://www.catholic-defense.com, and here's what they have to say about premarital sex for men (screencap):
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"It is written (Tob. 4:13): 'Take heed to keep thyself. . . from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.' Now crime denotes a mortal sin. Therefore fornication and all intercourse with other than one's wife is a mortal sin." - St. Thomas Aquinas ("Summa Theologica" 13th century A.D.)
And now we reach the conclusion of the puzzle. Thomas Aquinas, the most influential, intelligent, and greatest of philosophers and theologians of the middle ages, is at the bottom of this telephone game, who wrote his major works in 1260-1275. Notice he quotes from the Book of Tobit (or Tobias): "keep thyself... from all fornication," but what does fornication mean?
Let us check an etymological dictionary (screencap):
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c. 1300, from Old French fornicacion "fornication, lewdness; prostitution; idolatry" (12c.), from Late Latin fornicationem (nominative fornicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive fornicis) "brothel" (Juvenal, Horace), originally "arch, vaulted chamber, a vaulted opening, a covered way," probably an extension, based on appearance, from a source akin to fornus "brick oven of arched or domed shape" (see furnace). Strictly, "voluntary sex between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman;" extended in the Bible to adultery. The sense extension in Latin is perhaps because Roman prostitutes commonly solicited from under the arches of certain buildings.
We discover the word fornication did not take on its present meaning until 1300 AD, several decades after Thomas Aquinas wrote his authoritative works! Fornicators originally referred to men who went to the place "under the arch" (the fornix) which is where the street whores hung out at night in Roman towns. The word fornication, in the few places it does appear within the Bible, it still just talking about prostitution and not premarital sex!
It appears Thomas changed the meaning of the word fornication, either on purpose or accident, due to Catholic biases at the time given to him as a child most likely. Remember, one of the major differences between the Western Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church that helped drive the great schism of 1054 was the role of sex within the clergy. The Catholics always held negative attitudes on sex, and it was generally frowned upon priests to marry and have children. Conversely, Eastern Orthodox held no such bias but prohibited any rank higher than a priest within the church from marriage. The Catholics wanted everyone to be like St. Paul, who was an asexual and called his ability to have no desire for women a "gift" that allowed him to preach the word of God tirelessly. The Eastern Orthodox, however, held no such pretensions that 99.9% of males could ever achieve this.
The Eastern Orthodox, tragically, ceased to be an influence in 1200 AD because of the Fourth Crusade. The darkest event in all of Christian history, when Christians betrayed Christians, came about as Catholic Crusaders sacked, pillaged, and raped the richest city in the world, Constantinople, also the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Most of the booty taken from Constantinople was then brought to the Vatican, who then ruled over Europe with an Iron Fist for the next 500 years because they had so much of the wealth of the old Roman empire.
When Thomas Aquinas wrote his works in 1260 AD, there was no serious challengers to the Catholic school of thought as the Eastern Orthodox Church was mortally wounded and still bleeding out (200 years later they would be fully conquered by the Turkish Muslims). Aquinas, being the intellectual champion of the Catholics, was taken to be an authority and no one seriously noticed or cared about his use of the word fornication and the word fornication entered the common lexicon as meaning "sex in general" instead of "using prostitutes." Combining all of the above with the fact that 95% of Europe was illiterate at the time Aquinas wrote his works, and it makes sense word fornication was changed without anyone's notice.
Thus even when the Protestants rebelled against the Catholic church, they still assumed the word fornication meant "sex in general" instead of it's original use as just "buying a whore." And this is how the telephone game of Christ's teachings were perverted over time, by various political forces and human error.
I must comment that this error in teaching has been a tremendous burden on my own life, as even I was raised believing sex before marriage to be a grave sin I would need to repent for. But now that the internet has arrived, men can enter a new age of knowledge where the combined research of millions of men can be put together to form a complete picture of what happened in the past and where we must go in the future. So, unless I have made an error in the work above, I hereby state all Christian men to be the masculine man they were always meant to be, and fulfill their sexual desires without any restrictions other than the following:
1. Using whores (this includes porn!)
2. Rape
3. Incest
4. Adultery (cheating on one's spouse)
5. Homosexuality
6. Beastiality
Of course, there are many other sins a good Christian man should avoid when dealing with the opposite sex that would apply to interactions with all people, such as lying, but it's beyond the scope of this post to cover everything. More will be explained in the future. For now, as it is written, "the truth will set you free, for the truth is the light of God."
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I agree that taking a girl's virginity under false pretenses (such as promising marriage but then ditching her) is a huge sin. But the fact is most fathers cannot control their daughters who lose their virginity to some loser in their high school and by the time any of us meet a girl she's already been defiled.
