Act-Shuns

by David Engelhardt on Saturday, July 30, 2011



I was thinking tonight about the biblical prohibitions of certain actions, i.e. inappropriate sexual activity, killing, lying etc. Our modern train of thought asks why are certain of these actions wrong (especially the sexual ones)?

The answer, or one of the answers is God likes certain physical actions and disproves of other actions. Jesus challenges us to love our neighbor as our self but not in a non-lucid sense but through specific actions like forgiving, supporting, helping. So there are clearly actions that God likes us doing well then there would be actions he would not like us doing. Since God is specific in the actions we take he likes, he would certianly be specific in actions he doesn't like.

Take sexuality as an example. 1 corinthians 7 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer.

So... Husbands and wives should have sex and have it often together in the bounds of marriage. Ok so there is a great example of a bit of fun Godly legislation so if God has specified actions, "bounds" on sexuality there should also be restrictive ones, as we are all aware of in the cases of adultary, sodomy and fornication.

God requires us to do very specific actions & to love and shuns very specific actions because they are not love-

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