LoL I posted that because I didn’t know what ‘teleological’ meant either! :)
Essentially the author is saying that:
- A holistic, Christian understanding of sex and sexuality shouldn’t boil down to a legal set of rules.
- Rather, Christians should be inspired by a robust and positive view of sex that runs counter to the world’s shallow biological and psychological rationales.
As a Biology major, I once had a vivid experience.
We were examining a female fetal pig. The TA got to the genitalia, and one asked what the clitoris was for. The TA, a newlywed, blushed, and said it was for the same thing as in a human female.
The class, secular, and hedonistic, erupted with cries, “That’s gross!” and the like.
I, the only Christian, and likely one of the few virgins, was the only one neither embarassed nor disgusted by God’s Creation.
I never forgot that lesson on the dehumanizing effect of secular hedonism.
Those bullet points I could grasp :)
Yeah the West equates sex now with a large hit of dopamine in the pursuit of hedonistic pleasures.
It certainly can be fun but it is a LOT more to Christians than the equivalent of a line of coke.
Only now at 51 do I look back and realize how special it is.
The consequences of casual sex or not limited to catching physical diseases.
If kissing is a gun, then sex is a nuclear weapon.
I might put that on a bumper sticker :)