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Christian view of "sensuality" and pleasure
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<blockquote data-quote="aiki" data-source="post: 75585539" data-attributes="member: 178791"><p>We are given a sensual physical system (taste, touch, sight, smell, sound) by God. We need this physical sense-system to navigate the material environment in which we find ourselves. So, no, our natural and necessary sensuality is not inherently evil or sinful. Our natural physical impulses are not inherently evil, either. The impulse to eat, or sleep, or for sex are all God-given, too. Unfortunately, we are all cursed with a propensity toward selfishness and thus to sin. Our natural, incorrigible and excessive selfishness needs a divine "limiter," a supernatural boundary-setter, controlling our impulses and the way in which we satisfy them. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You've mistaken what heavenly interactions will be like. Paul wrote that "we know in part" while we live here on earth, but when we get to heaven "that which is in part will be done away with" and we "shall know even as also we are known." See <strong>1 Corinthians 13</strong>. In other words, the sort of knowledge we will have of one another in heaven will be so much greater than what we can possibly have here that even the marriage relationship will seem weak and pale in comparison. We will know each other fully in heaven, in a way impossible this side of eternity. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So, basically, you're turning from God because you want to have sex? Really? God made sex; it's His idea. And He knows the very best way for you to enjoy sex and for it to serve all the purposes for which He made it. </p><p></p><p>From what you've written, it seems that you don't really understand what it is to walk with God, to be a born-again disciple of Jesus. Do you understand the Gospel? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>None of the Christians I know - and I know a great many of them - think of sex in the way you describe here. The most spiritually-mature Christians I know quite enjoy sex, but in the God-ordained and thus healthiest way. They recognize God gave sex as a blessing and as a part of maintaining intimacy between husband and wife, as well as generating the vital next generation of human beings. Sex is good!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aiki, post: 75585539, member: 178791"] We are given a sensual physical system (taste, touch, sight, smell, sound) by God. We need this physical sense-system to navigate the material environment in which we find ourselves. So, no, our natural and necessary sensuality is not inherently evil or sinful. Our natural physical impulses are not inherently evil, either. The impulse to eat, or sleep, or for sex are all God-given, too. Unfortunately, we are all cursed with a propensity toward selfishness and thus to sin. Our natural, incorrigible and excessive selfishness needs a divine "limiter," a supernatural boundary-setter, controlling our impulses and the way in which we satisfy them. You've mistaken what heavenly interactions will be like. Paul wrote that "we know in part" while we live here on earth, but when we get to heaven "that which is in part will be done away with" and we "shall know even as also we are known." See [B]1 Corinthians 13[/B]. In other words, the sort of knowledge we will have of one another in heaven will be so much greater than what we can possibly have here that even the marriage relationship will seem weak and pale in comparison. We will know each other fully in heaven, in a way impossible this side of eternity. So, basically, you're turning from God because you want to have sex? Really? God made sex; it's His idea. And He knows the very best way for you to enjoy sex and for it to serve all the purposes for which He made it. From what you've written, it seems that you don't really understand what it is to walk with God, to be a born-again disciple of Jesus. Do you understand the Gospel? None of the Christians I know - and I know a great many of them - think of sex in the way you describe here. The most spiritually-mature Christians I know quite enjoy sex, but in the God-ordained and thus healthiest way. They recognize God gave sex as a blessing and as a part of maintaining intimacy between husband and wife, as well as generating the vital next generation of human beings. Sex is good! [/QUOTE]
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