SUNDAY POST – “Sins Against The Body”
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18
As we wrap up our February focus on Comprehensive Sexuality Education, what to say on this from a Biblical perspective? Where to even begin?
Actually, God has a lot to say about sexuality in the Bible. One could even call it “comprehensive.” He views covenant sex, that is, sex between a husband and wife, as a beautiful and necessary thing. After all, it’s a concept He invented, and all the pleasure that comes from the act was ordained by Him. It binds a man and woman into “one flesh” and that is why “a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife.” Notice that Genesis does not mention the word “marriage,” but simply the becoming of “one flesh.” Marriage seems to be the covenant result of the binding covenantal act of sexual union. Sex is that important in the Bible.
God also sees covenantal sex as beautiful. This relationship is written about poetically in Solomon’s Song of Songs:
How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. Song of Solomon 7:6-12 ESV
It’s tempting to paste all eight chapters here, as they sing of the couple’s wedding day, courtship, engagement, the bride’s beauty, her allure, and the power of love.
Predictably, God also has a lot to say about sex outside of these bounds. The Ten Commandments include a ban on violating the marriage covenant. The Bible repeatedly speaks of “sexual immorality” and makes it clear that God does not see such acts as beautiful, but as an “abomination.”
So how does the “Comprehensive Sexuality Education” underwritten by SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and the work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, compare to the comprehensive sexuality guidance provided by the Author of humanity?
For those who haven’t been following our month-long focus, CSE is not just “how babies are made” anymore. Comprehensive Sexuality Education escaped those guardrails a long, long time ago. (Read more about that here.)
“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.” 1 John 2:16.
Let’s take a look at the “worldly wisdom” that CSE now teaches our children….
CSE says: “You should experiment!” Children are encouraged to find their sexual identity through a trial and error process. “If you’re not sure if you’re a lesbian, then go experiment and see how you like it.”
The Bible says: “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.” 1 Corinthians 7:2 The Bible’s answer is covenantal sex through marriage. I could end it right there, but the science behind this is fascinating, and I’d like to share some of it.
Generally speaking, God wired men to (ardently) desire sex with women. God wired women to demand marriage first. This is a perfect balance. Teenage males experience a 30x increase in testosterone at the onset of puberty. Women only experience a 2x increase. The elaborate structure of neuro-chemical messengers, such as dopamine, vasopressin, oxytocin, estrogen, testosterone, progesterone (to name a few), specialized cells and receptors, delicate feedback systems and other control mechanisms represent a complex and balanced system set in place by our Creator that wires the sexes to balance each other and ultimately find harmony in covenantal union.
Teenage males are awash in testosterone, but each successive life change (engagement, marriage, children in succession) decreases that testosterone little by little. Men are designed to settle down as they build a family and dedicate their lives to one woman in the marriage covenant.
Scientific studies show that women react hormonally and physiologically to the mere presence of a man. Dr. LouAnn Brizendine, a neuropsychiatrist and former feminist at the University of California San Francisco gives women this advice in her bestselling book, The Female Brain: “Don’t let a guy hug you unless you plan to trust him.” Science says an embrace that lasts over 20 seconds begins a release of oxytocin, “the cuddle hormone” into a woman’s brain. Oxytocin is a central player in labor and delivery, breastfeeding, and maternal bonding, to name a few. Interestingly, it also activates the brain reward center and deactivates critical assessment and negative emotions (i.e., promotes trust).
Another 2003 study placed male sweat on the area between the nose and upper lip of participating women. These women were not aware of the identity of the substance, and the scent was disguised (thankfully). The result: the female’s body released hormones that altered ovulation and caused them to report feeling happier and less stressed. That’s right: the body detected the presence of male pheromones and responded by getting ready to start a family.
Telling women that they can experiment and have sex like a man is contrary to their biology, as authored by God. This ideology sets women up for failure when their emotional needs are not met by sexual promiscuity. This leads to greater potential for depression and associated self-destructive behaviors and attitudes.
“For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.” Romans 1:26-27 ESV
There are some fascinating facts about marriage. Did you know that as husbands and wives sleep near each other (within about 3 feet), that their hearts start to beat in synchronicity? (See Figure 6.9 on page 43 of this publication) Did you know that marriage decreases depression, hypertension, and a host of other physical ailments?
Though often derided by the Left, especially the feminists, for being confining and prudish, there really is something to approaching sex and marriage from a Biblical perspective, and science appears to support that.
CSE says: “Anal sex is a great alternative to vaginal sex.” It goes so far to advertise sodomy as a preferable alternative to traditional sex, as there is no risk for pregnancy. It gives advice on fisting, the use of sex toys or even vegetables if the student is in a pinch. It does not mention the higher health risk factors involved.
The Bible says: “Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.” Jude 1:7 ESV. Recall “all of the men” of Sodom attempted to gang rape the two angels visiting that city the night before its demise. The following morning “the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” Genesis 19:24. (i.e. there’s a reason it’s called “sodomy,” as it is literally the “sin of Sodom”). Leviticus 18 & 20 is also quite clear: a man is not to lie with another man. Admittedly, these scenarios deal with anal sex between two men. But any sex outside of marriage meets God’s disapproval, and perhaps God does not will this for his people because of the high physical risks involved. Afterall, he designed the female vagina to be 100s of cells thick. He apparently did not have the same considerations for the anus, as it is only one cell thick, and prone to tearing, bleeding and heightened transmission of STDs.
CSE says: “Children are sexual from ‘womb to tomb.’” CSE advocates for children as young as kindergarten or even pre-school to receive sex education. They instruct parents to tell five-year-olds about intercourse, though grant that talking about orgasm can wait until Little Johnny has finished Kindergarten. CSE gained this worldview via the systematic and institutionalized sexual abuse of children, also known as the “research” of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, written about many years later by one of the survivors here..
The Bible says: “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” -Matthew 18:6. CSE activists want access to children as young as possible because the child’s worldview is more malleable and has not yet been set by their parents. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6. At age 5, perhaps that straight path is not yet fully set, and CSE knows this.
CSE says: “Gender is a cultural construct.” Children are told, often suggestively, by teachers that they can be any gender they want to be: a girl, a boy, or something in between. Some go so far as to tell a child they were born in the wrong body, and that their “sex assigned at birth” may not be who they really are; they can choose something else as often as they please because gender is fluid (that is, until the child chooses to detransition).
The Bible says: “He made them male and female.” -Genesis 1:27. God made the sexes. Not culture (i.e. man). To say that gender is a cultural construct (that humans make themselves male or female or something in between in defiance of God) is one of the most conceited and deceptive utterances told to children today. It calls to mind the Biblical “father of lies,” the former angel Lucifer who was so conceited that he sought to place his thrown above God’s and was thus thrown down from heaven. –Isaiah 14:12-15.
Isaiah 14
12 How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[b]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
to the depths of the pit.
To learn more about the man who is considered by both the Left and Right to be the father of Gender Ideology and his horrific social experiment on the Reimer twins, read Question 1 of the Gender Ideology True-False Quiz here.
CSE says: “We must celebrate the diversity of sexual expression.” They celebrate a book that most parents consider pornographic called, “It’s perfectly Normal” (formerly a sex ed textbook in Williamson County Schools) and “Let’s Talk About It” in which hand drawn characters encourage masturbation, give tips for sodomy, homosexuality, and encourage the viewing of pornography….all in graphic detail.
The Bible says: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.” 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 Recently, there was a massive to-do at the Franklin, Tennessee Board of Mayor and Alderman (BOMA) over the approval of the event permit for the third annual Franklin Pride Fest. The community turned out in record numbers to ask for disapproval of this permit due to the inappropriate sexualized performances by drag queens in front of children the years prior. The pro-Pride speakers appealed to their “human right to celebrate their sexuality.” This right does not exist. Sex is a covenant act between a husband and wife and not intended for public display. The Bible mentions homosexuality, sodomy, prostitution (often sanctioned in pagan temples), and yes, polygamy…and does not celebrate any of these “diverse sexual expressions.”
There is no cause for celebration here.
CSE says: “Pornography is a useful classroom tool.” As recently as December 2022, this director of Planned Parenthood publicly defended the use of pornography in the classroom. If the guy at the top of Planned Parenthood is saying it out loud, we can only assume this practice is widespread and prevalent.
The Bible says: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28. We all know the phrase “you are what you eat.” It also matters what you consume with your eyes, for it goes not to the stomach, but to the heart.
“Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.” Colossians 3:5
Pornography has become its own epidemic, one with truly catastrophic consequences for men, women, marriage, and families. Both sexes suffer extreme addictions to this content, which, thanks to high-speed internet, is available 24/7. Teenage boys are suffering from erectile dysfunction! Pornography is a top destroyer of existing marriages and also of marriages that will never come to be, thanks to porn addiction. Is that not ultimately the goal of most of these ideologies – destruction of the family? So no, put to death these earthly things – there is NO PLACE for pornography in the classroom.
CSE says: “Kids are doing it anyway, might as well give them contraception and resources.” Kids are given condoms and access to birth control pills without parental knowledge or consent.
The Bible says: In Song of Solomon, there is a section in which the girl’s brothers (her family) are reflecting on how to keep her from sexual immorality in preparation for marriage:
Song of Songs 8
8 We have a little sister,
and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
They decided that if she was like a wall, standing firm against sexual temptation, they would praise her. But if she was like a door, open to immorality, they would take steps to guard her from doing something foolish. In following verses, she attests that she is the wall, standing firm and thus found favor in the eyes of her betrothed:
10 I am a wall,
and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
like one bringing contentment.
This is the role of family, and such is why the Left wants to destroy it. CSE is but one tool.
God does not take kindly when we humans take it upon ourselves to “play god” and rewrite His edicts. Sexuality is indeed very important in the Bible. CSE seeks to rewrite it, encouraging sin against the body. To come full circle on the first verse of this blog, you are not your own. You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Full verse:
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18-20