2008 Woodie Awards
Forks and Spoons
Spirituality meets sexuality
Issue date: 11/15/07 Section: Sex
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Sexuality. Christianity. They don't go together, right?
Wrong.
While it is true that Christian churches frown upon pre-marital sex, there are much deeper connections between sex and God (if you believe in Him) that go way beyond any law or religion out there.
First off, sex is good, since anything God created is good, as said in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
But let's look at the word "sex" more closely. Some scholars believe it comes from the Latin word "secare," which means to cut or disconnect from the whole. In that sense, our sexuality comes in two dimensions. The first is our awareness of our disconnection, and the second includes the ways we go about trying to reconnect.
When we long for a relationship, we're longing for a connection; someone we can be comfortable with. We realize we're disconnected from intimacy and we want to fill that void. It's great when we finally have that connection, but when we screw up and lose it, things can get ugly.
And that's what happened when Eve "screwed up" and ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil after God warned her and Adam not to. They had a connection and intimacy with God, and were so comfortable with Him that they were "naked and felt no shame," in Genesis 2:25.
You often hear about a lover kicking his or her cheating partner out of the house. In a sense, that's what God did. He kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, His home. This idea even shows up later in the first of the Ten Commandments, which says "I am the Lord your God ... You shall have no other gods before me."
That's God's way of saying "Don't cheat on me."
So does that mean we're in a relationship with God? Is He our lover in a sense? I believe we were created to have a relationship with God. Anyone who grew up in a church environment probably remembers their priest or pastor saying how we're supposed to love God more than anyone or anything else.
Wrong.
While it is true that Christian churches frown upon pre-marital sex, there are much deeper connections between sex and God (if you believe in Him) that go way beyond any law or religion out there.
First off, sex is good, since anything God created is good, as said in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
But let's look at the word "sex" more closely. Some scholars believe it comes from the Latin word "secare," which means to cut or disconnect from the whole. In that sense, our sexuality comes in two dimensions. The first is our awareness of our disconnection, and the second includes the ways we go about trying to reconnect.
When we long for a relationship, we're longing for a connection; someone we can be comfortable with. We realize we're disconnected from intimacy and we want to fill that void. It's great when we finally have that connection, but when we screw up and lose it, things can get ugly.
And that's what happened when Eve "screwed up" and ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil after God warned her and Adam not to. They had a connection and intimacy with God, and were so comfortable with Him that they were "naked and felt no shame," in Genesis 2:25.
You often hear about a lover kicking his or her cheating partner out of the house. In a sense, that's what God did. He kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, His home. This idea even shows up later in the first of the Ten Commandments, which says "I am the Lord your God ... You shall have no other gods before me."
That's God's way of saying "Don't cheat on me."
So does that mean we're in a relationship with God? Is He our lover in a sense? I believe we were created to have a relationship with God. Anyone who grew up in a church environment probably remembers their priest or pastor saying how we're supposed to love God more than anyone or anything else.
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