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increasingly becoming the first coresidential union formed among young adults."
Today sixty
percent of all marriages are preceded by a period of cohabitation
God’s Laws are Inexorable with Severe Penalties for Transgressors
Consider the laws of gravity and inertia by which our universe is sustained and makes life
possible; at the same time those who violate them, such as jumping off a bridge, etc., usually die;
so also are the laws of God in place for those who transgress them whatever they might be and
will exact a penalty.
The penalties come in many forms: sickness, disease, and death. Though the penalties are not
always evident after the transgressions they will and do surface sooner or later unless they are
removed upon repentance and forgiveness from God through Jesus Christ.
Social Diseases – Venereal Diseases (VD)
By searching the internet, one can learn much about the social diseases that are to so pervasive in
the nations of this world. These social diseases are the penalties for having transgressed God’s
holy and righteous laws in wrong sexual relationships regardless of whatever kind they might be.
Having the benefit of a lawful marriage between man and woman with no adulterous
relationships and no previous encounters of fornication prior to marriage with men or women
who are afflicted with one kind of another of these social diseases and remaining faithful within
the marriage to one another can assure one of being free of these problems that are afflicting
millions today. Consider the following”
Sexually transmitted disease
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sexually transmitted diseases
(
STD
), also referred to as
sexually transmitted infections
(
STI
)
and
venereal diseases
(
VD
), are illnesses that have a significant probability of transmission
between
by means of
including
and
While in the past, these illnesses have mostly been referred to as STDs or VD, in
recent years the term
sexually transmitted infections
(
STIs
) has been preferred, as it has a broader
range of meaning; a person may be
infected
, and may potentially infect others, without having a
disease
. Some STIs can also be transmitted via the use of
after its use by an
infected person, as well as through
or
Sexually transmitted infections
have been well known for hundreds of years, and
is the branch of medicine that
studies these diseases.
In the 1980s, first
and then
emerged into the public consciousness as
sexually transmitted diseases that could not be cured by modern medicine. AIDS in particular
has a long asymptomatic period—during which time
(the human immunodeficiency virus,
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