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So what’s wrong with the image for this post? I mean aside from AI’s confusion about human anatomy.
After finishing their Bible study, this couple got frisky without hiding the Bible in a drawer! Even worse, they might have interrupted their Bible study to make out! The scandal!
I made this image after trying to get an image for last Friday’s XY post. Finding an image of a couple reading the Bible together in bed was difficult, and the only image I found had them fully clothed and above the covers. Even AI, which is limited by what it’s been trained on, struggled with this.
The obvious message is God and sex don’t mix. What’s more, God probably sees sex as a necessary evil.
Even those of us who think we’re not this way are usually effected by it. You ask God to bless your food before you eat, but have ever asked God to bless your sex before you make love? Do you pray to God about your sex life the way you pray about other needs or areas of stress? Do you do that as a couple? Have you ever asked a close friend to pray for some sexual problem the way you would other health issues?
Does an image of a man removing is wife’s bra inches from an open Bible make you a bit uneasy? Do you think God wants you to have wild, passionate, frequent sex with your wife? Or do you think your interest in sex is beyond what God wants? Have you ever thought the sexual frustration in your marriage is because you want too much?
Give this some thought and prayer. And then bring it up with your wife. God is wildly pro-sex in marriage. If that’s not how you see it, that error is limiting your sex life.
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The Bible has several pro-married-sex passages. #1 is Song of Songs. I have read that it’s patterned after the erotic poetry of the day – True, or not, I don’t know. It starts (v. 1:2) with an enthusiastic call by the woman for her man to kiss her on the mouth. This book is about erotic love between a married man and his wife. It is NOT about God and Israel, or Christ and the Church. Saying it’s about those things has a huge “ewww” factor for me.
1Cor 7:1-5 (KJV). I say, King James, because in verse 5, the Hebrew word for ‘defraud’ is translated “defraud”. Other versions use weaker words. Your marriage is a covenant. That covenant implies (or demands) frequent “affection” between the partners. If you “deny”, or “refuse” (words used by other translations) your partner, you are not living up to the terms of the covenant. You are defrauding them.
V. 5 of this same passage also describes the conditions for abstaining from sex with your partner. You might describe it as a “sex fast”. It lasts only a short time reserved for prayer, then the partners come together again. This is Biblical withholding, and it’s by MUTUAL agreement.
There are others, but that’s plenty for today.
I don’t think any of us realize how much this impacts our thinking about God and sex. It is always there background noise that we all believe at some level. Very good to pause and reflect on how this impacts our sex life and how we can slowly adjust our thinking to understand that God is 100% pro vibrant married sex
@Roy Zesch – Amen!