Christian ethics..

Pineapple1 wrote: »

Hi all. Had a debate in college recently on this topic and it got me wondering: Why exactly is prostitution deemed immoral in Christian ethics? Ive tried reading books in the local library on it but a lot of the books just seemed to focus on abortion, rape and premarital sex. Hoping to hear a few different views. Thanks

I found this an odd question. Perhaps it shows how unfamiliar I am with how significant the departure from Christianity in Ireland is.

There are two main reasons why prostitution is wrong. The first as kelly1 said is because sex is made for marriage. The pattern of creation that Jesus gives us in Matthew 19 (which leans on Genesis 2) is the following:

Matthew 19:4-6 wrote:

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

The second reason is more explicit. God asks us to be pure in His sight. Jesus came into the world to die on the cross so that we could die to our sin and not return to it. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:13-20 wrote:

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

This is a similar argument to the first one, except it is saying that you are sinning against your own body because it isn't what God made it for. If God created the world He has every right to speak into it and declare the intention of all things including sex.