Resolved: Pre-marital sex ought not remain a sin from the Christian standpoint.

Thanks for accepting. Just to satisfy your objections, I apologize for the "bogus" terms. But you haven't provided an alternative set of definitions for the debate, so we have to use mine. For a brief roadmap, AC-NC My SPA- "My opponent has claimed that pre-marital sex matures oneself, as it gives them the bold idea of emotions and human relationships. This point is short-reached as my fellow opponent has failed to propose the natural outcome of sex: pregnancy. Yes, learning about caring,loving and being hurt emotionally is significant in maturing as a spritual developed adult, but when these lessons come with a price tag of unwanted pregnancy, pre-martial sex can give one far more amount of devastation, compared to the benefits that my opponent has propose." Yes, pregnancy is a natural outcome of sex, but there are things such as condoms, birth control, and bisectimies. So don't be fooled into thinking that eveytime you have sex, a baby will be born. Nevertheless, my opponent does make an interesting argument even if an improbable satistic. Even with an unwanted pregancy, you mature from it. You learn that life can be hard, but you learn how to cope. And for all we know it wasn't unwanted. So even with the unprobable chance, the benfits outweight the harms. So extend that sex is a maturing act. My SPB- "My opponent has given the example of free choice in attempt of proving pre-marital sex to be acceptable, however he has neglected the fact that free choice can only exist when one acknowledges the importance of the choice of others. As mentioned, pre-marital sex can cause unwanted pregnancy, which can naturally lead to abortion,adoption and many other unfortunate outcomes. By risking of having unwanted pregnancy through having pre-marital sex, one would be ignoring the the choice of potential life's desire to be born in a enfant-wanted/expected family." Really? Free choice can only exist when you adknowledge other's free choice? I disagree. I had the free choice to start this debate, whether or not I knew if you wanted to accept, or if your mom made you accept. I had no idea if you had a choice, yet I still had a choice to start the debate. Also, once again, he uses the improbable example of unwanted pregnancy leading to abortion, adoption, and "many other unfortunate outcomes". Well, he gives no reason those are harmful, but I'll tell you why they are beneficial to the child. Adoption could take the child out of a potentially harmful homelife. But for the sake of the Negative, it could also put it in a potentially harmful homelife. So when weighed, there's no impact in adoption in this debate. Abortion not only helps stop an over populated Earth, it can stop the child from living a bad life. Christians do say that life starts at conception, but just because I debate this topic doesn't make me Christian. That idea has no backing, so lets look at the scientificly proven, that life starts after conception. When doesn't matter because abortion would be aborting before life has started. So extend that we have free choice, and that it would be hypocrital of God to tell us its wrong to excercise that right. My SPC- "My opponent has also stated that sex makes people happy, thus Chrisitans should allow it before marriage in order to promote the religion. My opponent seems to be misguided that religion is a form of a privatized coporaton, which is in favour of making itself popular among consumers. However, this conception is false. Religion is formed to gather those who have similar perspective towards life-long authority, and is built on sharing the same idea of managing one's life in a specific way, not in intention to make their ideology popular. Stating that sex should be promoted to make the religion mkore popular, is absolutely impractiical, as the orignial motive of religions, do not allow it." Lol, yeah my opponent is right. I don't know what I was smoking when I wrote that argument. (I wrote this case a month ago). So lets drop my SPC. NC 1) "First of all, sex is known to be one of the most holy gifts presented by God. God has given human beings with a life long gift, that is only to be unwrapped in the most significant event. In order to keep this word, it is important for one to acknowledge sex is to be dedicated to one person. If the gift plays an important role in one's life, it would be logical to assume that it should be presented to one single most person, only." So God is a picky gift giver? He gives us a gift when we are born, and we can only unwrap it with one person, at his time of choosing? Hmmm....how anti-free choice. Almost dictator like. But heres the thing....we know that right now its a sin "in the christian standpont". The Negative's job is to show why is should stay that way. Not to state what already is. So I'm going to disregard this point seeing how it takes on the truth of the resolution, never proves it. 2) "Secondly, keeping chastity is the leading example of tempation-proof lesson that Christiantiy desires to teach. Christian religion finds the idea of being able to hold back oneself from temptation to be the hardest and most important rule to live by. Holding oneself from enjoying instant gratification of pre-marital sex would be a good practice of such rule." Well I haven't eaten in 5 days. That hotdog next to me looks really good. Tempting one could say. But God wouldn't like that, would he? He wouldn't want me to give in to temptation. The point of this is that not all temptation is bad. Once again my opponent assumes his side of the resolution, never proves it. So until my opponent proves pre-marital sex a bad temptation, this argument falls. 3) "Lastly, not having pre-marital sex prevents loss of potential life. It is proven that over 25% of the condoms used in sexual intercourse does not succeed. This tells us that out of 4 pre-marital sex, 1 would lead to an unwanted pregnancy. Christians assume the exsitence of a life in the moment of conception, thus, giving unwanted baby for adoption, or abortion would disrepsect the lives that are just as important." Cross apply with my earlier argument about conception not at birth. Also, take into account that the majority of Christians would still only have sex with their spouse even if it pre marital sex was not a sin. On top of that condoms+birth control+bisectimies=unwanted pregnancies a very unprobable scenario. =). Thanks for the response and I look forward to your next.