What acts are considered adultery?
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What acts are considered adultery?
ADULTERY, criminal law. From ad and alter, another person; a criminal conversation, between a man married to another woman, and a woman married to another man, or a married and unmarried person. The married person is guilty of adultery, the unmarried of fornication.
Why is fornication a sin against the body?
But fornication, involving as it does a community of life, is a sin against the body itself, because incompatible, as the Apostle had just taught, with the design of its creation, and with its immortal destiny.”
Can an unmarried person commit adultery?
Under the old common-law rule, however, ”both participants commit adultery if the married participant is a woman,” Bryan Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary, tells me. ”But if the woman is the unmarried one, both participants are fornicators, not adulterers.
Is fornication in the 10 Commandments?
“Thou shalt not commit adultery”, one of the Ten Commandments, is found in the Book of Exodus (Exodus 20:14) of the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
