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I thought you were referring to how like for example Paul uses it Biblically in a couple of places...
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I thought you were referring to how like for example Paul uses it Biblically in a couple of places...I'm referring to a person-a person going away from the right purpose of something.
Not all vulnerability is bad. Vulnerability can push us out of our comfort zone which is an important part of spiritual and mental growth. Think of Jesus washing Peter's feet. Jesus was making himself vulnerable, and challenging Peter to do the same as his master. He was challenging Peter to move out of his comfort zone, making him vulnerable in the process and exposing his discomfort with accepting humility (we see this repeatedly with Peter).
There's a really good bit of theology by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, called The Body's Grace, that I think is worth reading on this subject of how vulnerability in sex can be a good thing, even if the sex itself is less than morally praiseworthy.
BTW, the original baptismal rite in most churches involved nudity.
If the "two married people" are engaging in sexual perversion, then it should never be considered honorable, only anti-God and totally despicable. Pseudo"marriage" in that case, certainly not true marriage before God.
Just out of curiosity, what sort of sexual act conducted by a married couple would you consider perversion?If the "two married people" are engaging in sexual perversion, then it should never be considered honorable, only anti-God and totally despicable. Pseudo"marriage" in that case, certainly not true marriage before God.
Just out of curiosity, what sort of sexual act conducted by a married couple would you consider perversion?
I guess the best understanding of that would be any act that would be principally participated in by those who most practice perversion, i.e are of the same sex, are not man and wife.
I refer to "pseudo-marriage" in my original post, since there are those who consider that people of the same sex can actually be married to each other. Since such "marriage" is a total perversion of the concept of marriage, I guess pretty well anything they do together (including eating dinner?) should be considered perversion. They are perversion - should never be considered truthfully married, certainly not married before God.
Do you think marriage has a single definition or has a definition depending on culture?
Marriage, true marriage, is the union before God of a man and a woman. NOT a definition dependent on culture, or at least not in conformity with our culture.
Is all sin despicable or that is reserved for very serious ones?
What about in cultures before they knew of Christianity-like natives, did they get married before God?
If they had a true understanding of God, sufficient to know the basic that God is LOVE and they were being united in that Love. Pretty doubtful in most cases, I suppose.
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What about justice of peace weddings?
I would think it possible the couple could believe they were being united by God - not so likely as in a church wedding.
I would think it possible the couple could believe they were being united by God - not so likely as in a church wedding.
Thanks for the clarification.I guess the best understanding of that would be any act that would be principally participated in by those who most practice perversion, i.e are of the same sex, are not man and wife.
There are 3 values of God that many people like to label "phobias," i.e. mental diseases.
1. Islamophobia - being AGAINST ISLAM.
2. Homophobia - being AGAINST PERVERSION.
3. Xenophobia - being AGAINST IMMIGRATION.
Because all the false accusations, that being against these things is disease (or at least like unto mental diseases), do not seem to be capable of being overthrown, that the language incorporating them is becoming ever more entrenched, it seems necessary to endorse them, take them up as one's own, in order to overcome them.
Hence the necessity to insist these values are very godly, that the godly person will endorse these values. (And the people who enjoy beating up people with these fake names of supposedly irrational fears are quite anti-God.)
Perhaps there is some inherent truth in the "phobic" designation, in that those very concerned for God, who love God greatly, will "get all upset by" recognizing these things are against the will of God and hence we should be (in the present context of language usage) islamophobic, homophobic, and xenophobic?
When I say "anti-God and totally descipable," all sin is despicable in some sense, but sexual perversion is especially anti-God in that it violates the (operation of) Holy Spirit, which is a rather long story.
Not quite. the word homophobia was coined by George Weinberg in the 1960's and in early publications it referred to a heterosexual men fear that others might think perceive him as gay.The original word was homophobia, and it described a behavior in which men with latent desires to have intimate encounters with other men, would overcompensate by reacting violently against homosexuals.
Homophobia meant fear of being a homosexual, and it came to explain all opposition to homosexuality by suggesting that anyone who is against homosexuality is therefore a closet gay. It was an ironic slur.
Again, not quite.It is pseudo science and pop psychology at best. It may, or may not, describe the psychology of some men, but it certainly does not describe the reasons that many people oppose, say, gay marriage.
Nevertheless, it has been co-opted by the left in order to dismiss anyone who is against the gay agenda as bigots.
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