Posted on 07/08/2020 3:28:24 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
If it is true that one out of every five men sitting in America’s pews is saturating his mind with the evil images of pornography, how does this effect the overall level of godliness in the Church? It seems that the general urgency to live a consecrated life is at an all-time low. Self-centered living seems to have replaced true sacrificial love. A hunger for God has been exchanged for a lust for entertainment. While the Church is weathering a fierce spiritual onslaught from without, the godly character needed for this battle rots within.
I believe in the Church Triumphant. However, if we are going to return to the godly living of our forefathers, we must face the blight of pornography in an honest and forthright manner. The greatest threat to the Church today is not so much the pornography itself as much as it is the lackadaisical attitude many Christians have about its wrongness. Minimizing its wickedness might alleviate some of the shame for those using it, but it will not help to halt the epidemic. Let’s recognize pornography for the evil thing it is. Perhaps then we can effectively help those contaminated by it and do more to arrest its incursion into the Christian ranks.
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Speaking as an artist myself, the difference between pornography and artistic nude figures in sculpture and painting are obvious to most people. Granted, some artists get too close to the line...particularly in “artistic” photography and video.
The Bible itself talks about sex and mentions that Adam and Eve were “naked and not ashamed”. But it never goes into titillating details.
That is the difference. Pornography is designed to arouse the sexual urge. Good art and writing is designed to showcase truth and beauty.
It takes two.
If the women are expected to be enthusiastically sexual for the husband, then the husband needs to continue court his wife like he did when they dated.
He meets her emotional needs and he won’t have any problem getting sex as long as there’s no mitigating factor in her background (like abuse or rape) and at that point, they need to go for good, solid, Christian counseling to deal with those issues.
It takes two, and somebody needs to start, and it needs to be clear that “If you start delivering A, then you WILL have the expectation of starting to receive B”, with it being very clear, up front, what A and B are.
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