Expert: Dr Eddy Cheong - 1/17/2008

Question
If a couple has sex before marriage do they have to get married?

Answer
Fornicaton is sexual sin and the Bible is clear that fornicators do not enter the Kingdom of God..

Galatians Chapter 5
019: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 020: Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 021: Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Sexual relationship outside marriage is fornication, a damnable sin.

Christian Marriage is a covenant made between two parties of the opposite sex (born again Christians) with God as the mediator and witness.

Mark Chapter 9
006: But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 007: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 008: And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 009: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

God cannot put two fornicators together and legalize their sexual activity under the umbrella of a marriage covenant.  Fornicators should rather repent and ask for God’s forgiveness and mercy.