It's Time for More Christians to Get 'Sexually Explicit'

American Thinker.com ^ | January 26, 2020 | Trevor Thomas

[Mr. Jeeves]

There is no getting away from it: the old Christian rule is, “Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.”

The older one gets, the more one understands the wisdom in this rule.

[Jeff Chandler]

This is because the God-haters, and those otherwise devoted to a “theology of self,” have now perverted the oldest institution in the history of humanity—marriage.

With little or no push-back from Christianity.

[Guenevere]

+1

[Tax-chick]

There is no getting away from it: the old Christian rule is, “Either marriage, with complete faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.”

O noes, o noes! He was such a hatey hating hater!

Do not be deceived. Homosexuals and transformers did not create the current environment. They are merely dangling from the coattails of the majority who wanted a judgment-free pass for bog-standard heterosexual sin.

[reg45]

We need to be very specific about the definition of marriage. Islam allows multiple wives and even ‘temporary’ marriage.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The standards aren't arbitrary; they're merely a manifestation of the truth that sexual incontinence is bad for society. Violations tend to be self-punishing, both on the personal and societal level.

If you believe that our moral standards are handed down to us from God, it's not because God wishes to torment us, or test our loyalty, but simply because God understands His own creation, and how humans may fare best within it.

[Guenevere]

Spot on

[yldstrk]

Which biblical definition is that? The one where the dudes have multiple spouses or the one where David has Bathsheba’s husband knocked off?

[bella1]

You are correct

[IncPen]

Which biblical definition is that? The one where the dudes have multiple spouses or the one where David has Bathsheba’s husband knocked off?

You can conflate examples of bad behavior in the Bible (clearly given as what not to do), or you could just go with the 10 Commandments, which is what the rest of Christian theology uses as a guide.

Much more convenient (fun?) to avoid the obvious answer.

[Guenevere]

Well said

[Tax-chick]

Nothing can be done if we won’t identify the real issue. The author largely misses the boat.

[hulagirl]

Most probably the New Testament one, if you know it. As well, David sinned, Duh! You a troll? :-)

[elpadre]

“..With little or no push-back from Christianity. ..”

Even worse - modern Christianity had adopted the anti-Christianity position.

[antidemoncrat]

“With little or no push-back from Christianity.”

If you look at the number of major alleged Christian churches today, many have already capitulated to the demands of the small number of the LBGTQWHATEVERELSETHEYARE and accept their sexual lifestyle.

[JimRed]

Now this is so difficult and so contrary to our instincts, that obviously either Christianity is wrong or our sexual instinct, as it now is [remember, “now” was the mid-twentieth century], has gone wrong. One or the other. Of course, being a Christian, I think it is the instinct which has gone wrong.

I recall a Q and A type article in a Christian publication maybe 50 years ago; one of the questions was "Why is sex wrong, if God made it?" Of course, the answer was about the "proper" use of sex, from which any deviation was wrong.

[Snook79]

The Bible made it clear that God hated what King David did. The Bible from cover to cover gives examples of bad behavior from his elect and his not so elect and how God punished them for their iniquities.

[Theophilus]

Genesis 4:1
4 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

I think it's interesting and instructive that Eve recognizes that her conception came from and belongs to the Lord albeit through the "knowledge" of Adam. And also that she apparently values God's gift as if she were acquiring a possession.

The Bible is chock-full of sex. Just like life.

[Sequoyah101]

With some of it good and some bad. Somewhere between Hedonism and being a Sanctimonious Prude lies the truth and good. I really struggle to know which of the extremes is actually the worse though. At least the Hedonist is honest.

The Sanctimonious Prude is also scared to death not only of judgement but themselves.