Although this post is somewhat rude and antagonistic, it has an interesting topic IMO.
What it boils down to:
How do Christians feel about giving in to lust, and forgetting about their relationship with the Lord for a moment?
Or are anyone capable of focusing on both God and having sex? If so, what is that like?
And how about certain sexual positions, and acts, how do you feel doing them, do you think your Faith have any "opinion" as far as what you practice sexually (eg girl-girl sex, sodomy et al).
Well, Christians believe that God made sex, as a gift for man and woman, to be used within the bonds of marriage. Per the Creation account, the edict was "Be fruitful and multiply". So, it's hardly a case of "forgetting about God", when He commads us to have sex with our spouses.
Check out 1 Corinthians 7:3-5
"Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. Lust is fine; sex is great. The gist is that it's supposed to be done between a man and his wife. As the verse from Genesis goes and as Jesus reiterated in the Gospels,
"For this reason shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his WIFE and the two shall become one flesh".This whole hangup about sex appears to come from Catholic doctrine (which historically has not always jived with "Thus saith the Lord"). In particular, I believe it started with Augustine. If I have the story down correctly, basically, he was a "ho", before he got saved. He simply went from one extreme (screwing everything with a pulse) to the other (deeming sex as evil, to be avoided, unless and solely for making babies).
As for sodomy, the term is a somewhat floating one (at least in the United States) . The broad defintion of sodomy is defined as a sexual act, other than intercourse (penis-vagina style). Some people limit sodomy exclusively to its most infamous form, anal intercourse. The primary point behind sodomy laws(no pun intended) was to outlaw homosexual behavior, as the term "sodomy" is named after one of the two cities, in which gay men tried to rape Lot's guests in the book of Genesis.
My take is this: The Bible defines the proper parameters sexual behavior. It's between a man and woman, within the boundaries of marriage. I see few, if any, limits to the types of sexual behavior within marriage. As Paul would say, "Dwell with one another, according to knowledge". In other words, husband and wife should discuss the thing that they like, sexually, and come to some form of agreement.
Bottom line: as long as it's between a man and his wife, let the freakin' begin (or continue)
I have no problem with discussing the topic of sex, as it relates to Christianity. But, Trapezkerl didn't open this thread to start an open, intelligent discussionisn about this issue. He's trying to deflect from the fact that he plungered himself with this whole Nazareth thing.
