Posted on 09/09/2024 8:35:54 PM PDT by Perseverando
Anyone who’s ever looked deeply into the well of human sexual depravity will recognize that all deviance is measured against the standard of true normalcy: monogamous binary heterosexuality. It is a universal human norm, known in Christendom as the One-Flesh Paradigm, based on Genesis 1:27 and 2:24. Faithful Jews and Christians adhere to this standard, or at least aspire to do so.
The sinfulness/harmfulness of any given sexual act, inclination or relationship is judged by God and His law based upon its degree of its deviance from the standard. The acts, inclinations and relationships most similar to the standard are judged least harshly in the Bible. These include female concubinage (a man having a “mistress” with or without the knowledge or permission of the wife), bigamy (two wives) and polygamy. These forms of deviance are actually tolerated in the Mosaic Law in the way and for the reason divorce is tolerated there. Introducing the terms of the New Covenant about 1,300 years later, Jesus explained that those laxities were temporary accommodations to human weakness in the Old Covenant: “because of the hardness of your hearts.” Humanity wasn’t morally evolved enough to meet the higher standard in the days of Moses, and so God left some wiggle-room in the law.
Make no mistake: There are always negative consequences for violating the standard, even within the limits of the Mosaic law, because anything humans do that is “out of order” has ripple effects that compound over time (just look at the lives of most divorced people and their children). Jesus thus began his Sermon on the Mount by contrasting the letter of the old law with the spirit of the law that He now would expect humanity to faithfully embrace – at least aspirationally. Implicit in his exhortation to that higher
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Coach Timmy approves....
Where does the person that prefers solitude over fillintheblank human intimate relationship fit in? You know the song...”I’ll be what I am...solitary man.” Seriously. I prefer to not burden anyone with myself and I shiver at the thought of being trapped in a sour relationship of which I see others in all over in society.
>> Kohler shows that Nietzsche’s suppressed homosexuality, generating a hatred of Christianity and conventional morality, was a central influence on his work.”
That figures. Nietzsche was a vile piece of excrement.
“GOD is dead”... Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead!” ... GOD
Scripture does not condemn that as sin as far as I can tell. I don’t recall ever reading anything alluding to that.
And yes, our society is filled with sore, or perhaps better, toxic relationships and I can understand the desire to want to avoid them.
The number of truly healthy relationships I have seen in my life is pretty small and seems to be dwindling these days as godlessness abounds.
“Scripture does not condemn that as far as I can tell.”
Seriously? I think StPaul had a thought about that !
About remaining single?
Are you sure?
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable,
5 not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;
1 Cor 6:13-20
13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Check your self righteous pride, sir.
Holding up God’s standard is all, but thanks for jumping to conclusions.
“Judge not lest you be judged speaks volumes in my current circumstances of my own doing.
Rom 3:23 I’m no different than so many others who struggle with sin and sex and and and...
But my righteousness is from Rom 3:24 the gospel message to all - you ain’t gonna make it to Heaven without divine assistance, belief in the 1 and only Saviour named Jesus.
Heaven and all of God’s gifts are too precious to allow altering the one standard repeated thrughout the whole Bible
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Thanks be to God! To Him alone be the Glory!!!
Sorry - reread your post - I meant to post the verse about being single is better if you are not tempted in lust - got sidetracked by bad search engines.
See 1 Cor 7:6-9
Deeper still...
https://pastorunlikely.com/11-encouraging-bible-verses-for-those-struggling-with-lust/
He recommended celibacy if possible.
(don’t have time to look it up, have to catch a flt)
Dude, he quoted Scripture, not an opinion
bump
just think if solid families with one mother and one father were the norm today...virtually all our societal and financial problems would be nonexistant,imo.
there are solid biological reasons why the one man,one woman marriage ideal works best for societies....peace being one.
I hope it's a common brown flt and not the yellow bellied Peruvian flt because they are endangered.
Yes, but what does that have to do with what was being discussed which was preferring solitude? (post 3)
There was no mention of any kind of inappropriate behavior.
When you said “Scripture does not condemn that as far as I can tell.” my point was that quite the opposite, it rather extols it if possible. Sorry for the confusion.
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