In Reply to: Early Church & the Latter Church posted by Freeatlast! on September 17, 2003 at 23:50:32:
It is quite simply a sin.
I was quite surprised when I did a study on the whole 'law of love' doctrine, that every single verse that Berg had used, was taken out of context. For example, remember how he used the time Abraham gave his wife to Pharoah? I was so surprised when I read the story, that Pharoah never touched her. Guess who stopped him? God did! I was so surprised, and God told him that he would have been dead if he had touched her!
Other verses that he pulled out never were talking about sex, but about food. Anytime sex was spoken as outside of marriage, it was utterly condemn in the New Testament and by Jesus himself.
Take for example the woman caught in adultry. He did forgive her no doubt. But what were his final words to her? "Go and sin no more". If he hadn't seen it as a sin, would He had said so?
Anyway, it was a total shock for me, as I had utterly embraced the whole law of love scene and truly believed in it. Imagine my shock when I found out by reading just the Bible, that I not only had not pleased God, but had actually been displeasing him.
Remember Jezebel in Revelations? That chapter really got to me. Anyway it's good to check these out for yourself, as I didn't believe it till I had proved to myself it what was right.(it's funny as I had started out trying to prove 'law of love' was true'.)