The Biblical view of human sexuality
In this post I want to discuss God’s protective design for human sexuality and why it matters. Also, I want to share compelling evidence of the world’s problems deriving directly or indirectly from disregarding and abusing God’s design for sex.
Before approaching this topic though, imagine just a few of these scenarios and how these situations would make life chaotic and dysfunctional:
- Highways without speed limit laws or a designated side of the road to travel on!
- Roads with no directional signs…
- Airplanes flying without a licensed pilot…
- “Professionals” Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers etc. working without accreditation…
- No laws against theft, rape, violence etc…
- Competitive games played without any rules…
- Orchestra members all playing whatever they felt like instead of following their Music Director.
No doubt, there are many, many scenarios that could be described to picture what our world would look like without laws to keep it orderly.
All things considered, I think we would all agree that our world would be in great chaos and life would be unbearable. In fact when I googled what would happen without rules/laws to govern us, the responses were very similar stating that:
A society without rules and laws would be a chaotic and dangerous place. Rules and laws are essential for maintaining order, protecting individuals, and ensuring the smooth functioning of society. They provide a framework for behavior and help to prevent conflict and harm.
It’s important to realize that we need order, rule, laws and ethics. They are in place for our safety and enjoyment of life!
Anne Witton asks in her article “Have You Ever Wondered If We Could Live In A World Without Rules?” she states rightly that “rules help us to cooperate and work well together.”
Of course – laws, rules and ethics are necessary!
Given these points, we might all agree that these are necessary.
However, in regards to the ethics of human sexuality there is obvious, very divisive disagreement on whose rules we should follow.
Is it possible that everyone can live according to their own rules/ethics for human sexuality behavior?
Indeed, in regards to human sexuality, many, many people are living according to their own rules/ethics. The result of this on society has been and continues to be very devastating. More on this shortly.
We need to ask ourselves this question:
Is there an objective moral reality that we can appeal to? Anne Witton
Yes, absolutely! The truth is, we have a loving God who created us to flourish. Since He created us, Psalm 139:15,16 He knows exactly what is best for us. He has clearly made His design for human sexuality known in the Bible. Matthew 19: 4-6
Many consider the Bible their “owners manual” for guiding their life. Proverbs 3:5-6
The following quote is from the article, “What is a biblical View of Sexuality?
Human sexuality, including all its physical, emotional, and spiritual intricacies, was God’s invention. He gave sexuality to His human creations as a gift with two functions: to perpetuate the human race and to create an intimate bond between husband and wife. The right use of sexuality leads us to understand intimacy with God in greater ways; the wrong use of it destroys intimacy with God and substitutes sexuality in His place.
Devastating outcomes when God's design for human sexuality is perverted
An excerpt from the same article mentioned above describes the devastation that has transpired in our world due to our corruption of God’s design for human sexuality.
A significant percentage of the world’s problems stems directly or indirectly from our abuse of God’s gift of sexuality. Imagine the world we would have if every human being followed God’s standards for sexuality. Abortions, divorce, STD’s, AIDS, pornography, sex trafficking, fatherless children, single mothers, rape, abandoned babies, and pedophilia would all cease or be greatly reduced. The ripple effects of those changes alone would completely transform every continent, every nation, and every culture. Economies would rebound, disease would plummet, and mental hospitals would have empty beds.
God knows what He is talking about when He includes boundaries with His gifts. Electricity is an incredible discovery and if used correctly benefits all mankind. Used wrongly, however, electricity can maim or kill. So it is with the power of human sexuality. When we seek to live within the healthy boundaries God instituted for our well-being, sexuality is once again a good gift.
The importance of the traditional family can not be overstated; this is God’s design!
Protections provided by traditional family units
God’s Protective Design for human sexuality provides a sacred ‘one-flesh’ covenant of husband and wife. His Great Gift!
- One-flesh union: Sexual union between a husband and wife provides a physical expression of a life-long commitment to their marriage which creates a deep union.
- Covenant: When reserving sex for marriage, it acts as a physical seal of the covenant between the husband and wife . Significantly it also mirrors the relationship between Christ and the Church.
- Emotional and Spiritual fulfillment: Fidelity in marriage enables a deep, committed emotional and fulfilling relationship.
- Physical and emotional safety: Protects against emotional pain that sex outside of marriage can create.
- Stable environment for children: Its important to realize that children flourish best with their biological father and mother in a stable, covenantal marriage which, by the way, provides a model of covenant love for them as well. Importantly, children know who they are- where they came from.
In the following excerpt from “Why Marriage Matters for Child Wellbeing” the writer states this:
Reams of social science and medical research convincingly show that children who are raised by their married, biological parents enjoy better physical, cognitive and emotional outcomes, on average, than children raised in other circumstances…
Researchers have been able to make a strong case that marriage has causal impacts on outcomes such as children’s schooling, their social and emotional adjustment and their employment, marriage and mental health as adults. David C.Ribar, 12.
Social science and medical research show compelling evidence that God’s protective design for human sexuality is for our flourishing as human beings!
Human sexuality perverted - the detriments to children!
For a number of years now, the educational system has been infiltrated by radical activists who have been successful in their plot to indoctrinate children with their corrupted ideologies.
The following is an excerpt from the article Removing Gender Ideology from Education:
When it comes to questions around gender identity, there is intense disagreement over what is true. The very concept of gender identity is ideologically loaded and deeply contested, yet it is portrayed as true in official curriculum, by third-party organizations, or through teachers’ opinions. Children are taught that a girl can be trapped in a boy’s body, or that a male adult human being can be a woman if he believes he is. Children are taught that sex is a mere label assigned to people at birth, when in fact it is an immutable and profoundly significant biological reality determined at conception. Children are taught that sex can be changed via what is euphemistically called “gender-affirming care”, when, in reality, human beings cannot change their sex through any amount of drugs or surgeries.
Gender ideology is fundamentally false. It is not a scientifically accurate way to think about human sexual identity. Our identity as male or female, like many other facets of human identity, is not a matter of choice. God has created human beings in His image as male and female. Genesis 1:27 This is obvious in our biology. Human beings cannot choose to be another species. We cannot choose who our parents are. There are some biological realities we must simply accept.
Gender ideology often takes on a religious quality, claiming a metaphysical identity (e.g. a soul) not defined or limited by one’s physical body. Gender ideology claims that a person’s “true” identity as male or female is not only non-physical but can only be known and determined by himself or herself. [35]
Trusting our feelings to determine our identity is unreliable. Professors Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt describe how such emotional reasoning – relying on our feelings to arrive at the truth – is one of the “great untruths” of our present age.
Summary
In the final analysis, we must recognize that we have moved a long way from God’s design for human sexuality. We must conclude that God’s design for human sexuality is for our protection, just as laws in our society protect us from harm.
These are some of the ways our culture has, in recent years, abandoned God’s protective design for human sexuality.
- Same-sex marriage
- Same-sex parent families – through adoption
- Polyamorous families (recently in Quebec, CA three men adopted a baby girl
- Single-Parent families
- Surrogacy, sperm & egg banks – Children are born who will never know who they are or whose they are biologically.
- Cohabitating couples
- Transgender surgeries for youth
Today, the dominant culture in practice and law and rhetoric is pulling apart what God intended to go together, and thus “all sorts of bad things are unleashed.” What is pulled apart is “the organic unity of marriage, sex, and the sexual act and childbearing.” Sex and childbearing are held together in traditional Christianity. The sexual revolution pulled these things apart, not only intellectually, but also technologically.
I don’t know of any way to close off this post other than to say – God Help Us!
Prayer
Father God, You are High and Mighty, You created everything and you said it was very good!
Sadly, as a culture, we have chosen to re-design your perfect design for the way we express our sexuality. We are seeing the destructive effects of these choices in so many lives.
We need your Holy Spirit to change the hearts and minds of those who oppose your perfect design and we understand from the teaching of Jesus that this can only happen as we come to the cross in repentance of our sin.
For this we pray in Jesus powerful name,
Amen
Further Reading:
How gender ideology imposes a dangerous political agenda in our schools (Excerpt) If there is a consensus in the essentially contested[1] field of education, it’s that education should lead to freedom. No one could seriously argue the opposite. The problem is, and always has been, to determine what is freedom and how we achieve it. Two different traditions are increasingly in competition on this matter.
The first is the liberal model of education, where intellectual freedom is cultivated through the exercise of rationality, supported by broad knowledge and culture, in politically neutral schools. The second is critical pedagogy, suggesting that freedom can only be achieved by politicizing education, which means that schools and teachers must take a position in order to enlighten their students about the sources of oppression we need to liberate ourselves from.
Inside the Transgender Empire (Excerpt) In the late 1980s, a group of academics, including Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Sandy Stone, and Susan Stryker, established the disciplines of “queer theory” and “transgender studies.” These academics believed gender to be a “social construct” used to oppress racial and sexual minorities, and they denounced the traditional categories of man and woman as a false binary that was conceived to support the system of “heteronormativity”—i.e., the white, male, heterosexual power structure. This system, they argued, had to be ruthlessly deconstructed. And the best way to achieve this, they argued further, was to promote transgenderism. If men can become women, and women men, they believed, the natural structure of Creation could be toppled.
“We did what the experts told us” – A Canadian family shares their story” (Excerpt) D suffered from anxiety from a young age, ADHD inattentive-type first diagnosed in Grade 2, generalized and social anxiety that got progressively worse through elementary school. By middle school, she lacked the executive functioning skills to manage all her school work. Her anxiety became more severe, and were accompanied by somatic symptoms (chronic stomach aches, nausea, headaches). Depression started to set in. By Grade 8 she wanted to die, wished she had never been born.
God’s Design For Family: The Best Outcomes (Excerpt) It’s one thing to teach children to be aware of, and to be kind to, other children of various family structures; it is an entirely different concern when educators, media and activists attempt to alter the destiny of humanity by altering the structure of the family by teaching children that families with unmarried parents, two dads or two moms, or polyamorous parents (multiple romantic partners in household) is normal.
Most parents do not embrace these morals/beliefs and do not wish for their children to be indoctrinated in this way.
What Are Some OF The Effects Of Sex Before Marriage? (Excerpt) We know what you’re probably expecting from an article like this– Yes, sex before marriage can lead to unplanned pregnancy. Yes, it can lead to sexually transmitted infections. Yes, it can increase the risk of identity issues, depression, and broken relationships. But there’s so much more to talk about than that, particularly some of the invisible effects of sex.
First let’s start by understanding this: we can’t stop our bodies from doing what they were created to do. What were they created to do? Bond. We were created to connect with another human being in such a way that we would become one unit together for life.
