AboutPastor Don Carpenter Expertise I am a father of four and a Baptist Pastor. Before becoming a senior pastor, I was a youth pastor and worker for over 10 years. If you ask this volunteer a question, you will get the benifit of 20 + years experience in the ministry and the counsel of the Bible, God`s perfect book. Feel free to ask any Biblical or moral questions.
Experience I have been involved in pastoral type counseling for 20+ years. Most of my experience has been with chemical addiction, crisis intervention, and some types of severe mental illness. I have some secular training in those areas as well as a Bible College degree.
Organizations Evangelical Baptist Church
Publications Revival Baptist Chronicles
The Fundamental Baptist Voice
Education/Credentials BS in Bible from Baptist Bible College in CLarks Summit PA
Various training seminars in, Co-occuring disorders, treatment of those who have been sexually abused, and Solution Focused Therapy.
Question I know you have answered this question but it was about married couples. Is
oral sex considered sex without being married. Because I thought sex is
defined sexual intercourse not oral sex. Please give biblical reference
Answer Hi Charles,
Biblically speaking the way to avoid the sin of fornication is not to touch each other at all before marriage.
1Co 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
I believe that to define fornication as intercourse only is too narrow. This passage seems to indicate that any intimate touching is fornication.
The Greek word for fornication is pornia from which we get the word pornography, which consists of pictures other than intercourse.
