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BY ALONZO GASKILL
God is many things but, at the top of the list, He is a creator. God cannot answer prayers if there is no one to pray to Him. God cannot love if there is no one for Him to love. And God cannot redeem if there is no one for Him to redeem. Before He does anything for us, God first creates us. And while the sexual union of a man and woman has more than one purpose, it is the closest we can get to imitating God’s act of creation. God has endowed humans with the power, through the procreative act, to partner with Him in creating human life. Thus, at its heart, sex is sacramental. Through it we commune with our spouse; but through it we are also in communion with the divine, sharing His power and fulfilling His will by propagating the existence of humanity.
Because sexual intimacy is central to the continuation of the souls God has created, and central to His ultimate work, it is no surprise that the Bible speaks frequently about human intimacy. What follows are just a few of the dozens of comments and counsel the Bible offers around human sexuality.
While the bulk of what the Bible says about sex focuses on the misuse of the body and sexual relations, there are positive things about sexual relations mentioned in the Bible as well. For example, the Apostle Paul explained: “Husbands and wives should be fair with each other about having sex. A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself. So don't refuse sex to each other, unless you agree not to have sex for a little while, in order to spend time in prayer. Then Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” (CEV 1 Corinthians 7:3-5) In this same epistle, Paul counsels, “because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.”
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