Daily Archives: April 4, 2008

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Adultery: 81 % / Premarital Sex: 45%

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” Hebrew 13:4 In the last post we looked at a USA Today article regarding the way that Americans view sin. The article contained a survey listing various activities and the percentage of Americans who thought these activities were sin. Eighty-one percent of those surveyed thought that adultery was a sin. However, only 45% of this same group thought that having sex before marriage was a sin. This difference says much about how our culture uses the Bible to determine what is sin. The actual title of the article in USA Today is “Has the notion of sin […]