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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I was preaching and teaching that in the early 1980s - not that people in my church wanted to hear it.

If there are any people who should have a positive understanding and attitude toward sex, it is Christians.

That in no way implies permissiveness; it simply means that God designed it, and it is good.

It is powerful, and sin makes it potentially very destructive, but it is not “dirty” as so many Churchians (as I call them) think and say.

When I was in youth ministry, fornication was, no surprise, a problem - precisely because no one wanted to talk about sex.

My recurring message to young people was: So, you really, really like doing it, but you think talking about it respectfully is dirty.

My background is both in biology and theology, so I had no problem discussing it respectfully and without embarrassment. As I often said, when quoting a Bible passage explicitly dealing with sex, “God is not shy talking about it; why are we?”

(I, a chaste single male and Bible teacher, was denounced as indecent for that by the worst fornicators in the youth group.)


7 posted on 08/18/2019 9:29:20 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: YogicCowboy
I, a chaste single male and Bible teacher, was denounced as indecent for that

I imagine there were other reasons as well.

12 posted on 08/19/2019 4:54:46 AM PDT by humblegunner
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