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yeah… Once again it’s true and evident that people know the truth(our corruption, Holy God’s existence….), but suppress the truth in various ways isn’t it? whether it’s DNA determinism or else!
Paul,
If I may make two comments:
1. I think the title is not a helpful one - Free for sex or living in bondage? I think replacing the word bondage for slavery is better.
2.
I would be extremely cautious into buying into this thinking. I believe that sex is a private thing between married couples. Yes I would teach what the Bible says about it, but the world’s ‘openness and honesty’about sex is (in my opinion) very different to what I think our attitude should be regarding the subject. I heard someone say recently:
Hi Joshua,
Thanks for your comments and I share your disappointment with where much of evangelicalism has gone with sexuality. I would be interested in thinking a little about what an appropriate modesty would look like.
It gets a little tricky I know, because if it’s shameful to speak about in public then we shouldn’t speak about it. But what exactly is the nature of appropriate modesty? I think my wife and I are much more open about sex with my kids than my parents were with me. (Which is not a criticism by the way, that was the nature of the whole culture I was brought up in).
An example is using anatomically correct names for the various parts of our bodies and explaining the basic mechanics of intercourse (which we have, unfortunately, done earlier than we might have done if we weren’t worried about them being led astray by friends at school).
I have a feeling that the key is in understanding innocence. Can you talk a little more about what appropriate innocence might look like?
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