[Video starts] Hai: Premarital sex is so common today. Should that still be a stigma to society? [Video ends]  Brother Bob Pellien: Thank you so much Hai, for your question. [On-screen text graphic] Brother Bob Pellien Minister of the Gospel Brother Bob: You’re really right and statistics back you up. What do they show concerning premarital sex? You can see here a couple of facts or statistics about that: [On-screen text graphics] By 2010s, 73% of people had 2 or more sexual partners before marriage. Source: ifstudies.org Brother Bob: By year 2010s and therein, there was 73% of people [were] reporting that they had had 2 or more sexual partners prior to marriage. [On-screen text graphics] By 2012, 58% of Americans felt premarital sex wasn’t wrong at all. Source: reason.com Brother Bob: By 2012 58% of Americans felt that premarital sex is not wrong at all. [On-screen text graphic] By the age of 44 – 99% of respondents in a survey had had sex, 95% had done so before marriage. Source: guttmacher.org Brother Bob: Those surveyed up to the age of 44, imagine this statistic, 99% of respondents in that survey that had had sex, 95% had done so before marriage. 95%. Well, as these numbers clearly show us, and as you stated, Hai, it is truly a common thing. But then you included in your question that, well, since it is so common, should it still be a stigma or be perceived as something shameful in society? Maybe Hai, as you have posed your question, as many others believe, it should be more tolerated. It should not be viewed as something that is bad or evil or wrong. Well, what are the things that we have to understand about premarital sex?  What is Premarital Sex? Brother Bob: Firstly, premarital sex is engaging in sexual acts without the sanction of holy matrimony. We have to understand that sex is a privilege that God granted to married people only. It’s not a right which every individual has. So this prerogative then was given by God. Let’s go back to the first couple Adam and Eve and let’s take a look. What was the instruction that God gave to the first couple, the first man and woman. Genesis 1:26, let’s say verse 27 rather and 28, it reads this way: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. [Genesis 1:27-28 New King James Version] Brother Bob: We should note here, dear friends, that God blessed the first man and first woman He created before—we should note the sequence, the chronological order there—He blessed them before He instructed them to go be fruitful and multiply.