Musings of a Seminary Grad

This is the fourth post in my discussion of biblical sexuality. The previous posts were entitled "What is a Human?", "What is Gender?", and "What is Marriage?" In brief, humans are made in the image of God and therefore infinitely valuable, gender is part of that image of God and necessary for humanity's function on Earth as God's mediatorial rulers, and marriage is a relationship that God designed for sanctification and to picture the relationship of Jesus Christ to the Church. Don't talk about it This is the question that parents fear. Amid all of the other results of their child hitting puberty, parents dread this the most; they live in mortal terror of the day their child will come to them and ask, "What is sex?" Discussing sex with your child has come to be universally referred to by the infamous phrase "The Talk," and various TV sitcoms arrange cringe-worthy scenes around the awkwardness arising from that conversat...

This is the third post in my discussion of biblical sexuality taken from a chapel workshop I did at the school where I currently teach. The previous posts were entitled "What is a Human?" and "What is Gender?" In brief, humans are made in the image of God and therefore infinitely valuable, and gender is part of that image of God and necessary for humanity's function on Earth as God's mediatorial rulers. The Problem We live in a world that is attempting to redefine marriage; that statement has different meaning depending upon your worldview. From the world's perspective, marriage is a human institution, and therefore humans have the right to mold, shape, change, or dispense with it at will. It is not special, necessary, or mandated. This explains the take-it-or-leave-it attitude we see toward marriage in our society today. From the perspective of the Christian worldview, however, marriage is an institution set up by God himself. It is not mad...