by Angie Lewis

Created on: June 03, 2008

Adultery is a Pandemic, did you know that? What is a pandemic? According to Merriam Webster's online dictionary, a pandemic is an "outbreak" occurring over a wide geographical area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population. I would consider adultery to be of pandemic proportions considering the high rate of marital suffering, divorce, sickness and disease among a high proportion of the world. What do you think? Let's take a closer look and examine this issue.

If you knew of a dangerous virus going around in the city where you lived that caused fever, chills, nausea, severe diarrhea, and vomiting, and death to those with a weak immune system, you would probably stay as far away from the city as possible? At the least, you would wear a hospital mask over your face to avoid the harmful germs, right?

Adultery is like a virus but much worse. It spreads from person to person like a virus and if a person is not spiritually well, it will entangle them within its insidious hold and cause much spiritual and mental anguish, not to mention, in many cases, physical illness, deterioration, and death.

As with any pandemic that we learn about we always go out of our way to avoid the offender, lest we too become sick. Viruses become a pandemic only because people do not take the needed precautions in the beginning of its destruction. Sometimes it is because of filthy conditions or lack of knowledge but once we figure out the cause we avoid it like the plague, no pun intended.

Do we do that with sex outside of marriage? Why not?

I would very much consider adultery to be a disease since it damages just as many individuals as does any bird flu virus or cholera. In fact adultery symptoms carry with it all kinds of harm to those affected by it, not only in the mental and spiritual sense but also in the physical sense. Adultery is the main cause of disease and sickness in people, not bird flu, influenza, cholera, or the ebola virus. But is anyone avoiding sex outside of marriage? Is anyone avoiding sex before marriage?

Proverbs talks about what adultery and fornication can do to the human soul, mind, and body. People spray insect repellant on their bodies to stop mosquitoes from sucking their blood, and people stop eating contaminated meat so they will not contract the bird flu virus and Mad Cow disease. But what do people do to stop from having sex outside of marriage? Absolutely nothing!

God does not stand over people with a paddle and tell them to stop having

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