Comments on: God’s Design for Sexual Fulfillment: Intro

By: Be The Fruit » Blog Archive » God’s Design for Sexual Fulfillment: Summary

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:15:28 +0000

[...] Intro - Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Conclusion This entry was posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 am and is filed under Sexual Intimacy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]

By: Be The Fruit » Blog Archive » God’s Design for Sexual Fulfillment: Part 2

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:25:31 +0000

[...] becoming “naked and unashamed” as it was in the beginning (Gen 2:25).” See the post here. I will the connection between the whole one-flesh relationship and sexual fulfillment later [...]

By: Brother Hank

Brother Hank — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:11:15 +0000

Part 1 did not disappoint brother.

I hope I’m not jumping the gun, but I want to add something very important to what you said (and most likely what you will say later). You wrote

“Knowing that God is the originator and author of sex should wipe away any notion that God is somehow against sexual pleasure.”

It would do the conversation well to remember that God not only originated and authored sex to be pleasurable; but in the same felled swoop, he made sex procreative as well. This should also wipe away any notion that God is somehow against procreation. If we are going to hold to a New Covenant understanding of sex (which is where I assume you are heading), we can no more say that Christ altered or fulfilled the procreative aspects of sex, any more than we can argue that he altered or fulfilled the pleasurable aspects of sex. Both were good, created, and intended from the beginning. It’s only when we hold up one as primary or ultimate that we do indeed become idolatrous…

‘BH