What does the Bible say about sexuality?
God CREATED sex.
Genesis 1:26-28, 31 (NLT)
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. 31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
Proverbs 5:18-19 (NIV)
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
God CREATED sex for a certain CONTEXT.
1 Corinthians 7:2 (NLT)
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
Since God DESIGNED it, He gets to DEFINE it.
Genesis 2:24 (NLT)
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
Sex is PHYSICAL act that represents the SPIRITUAL truth.
Our PASSION needs PARAMETERS.
Forbidden Sexual Acts in the Bible:
– Fornication (Gen. 38:24, Lev. 21:9, Duet. 22:21, 1 Cor. 6:18, Heb. 12:4)
– Adultery (Ex. 20:14, Deut. 5:18, Prov. 6:32, Matt. 5:27-32)
– Polygamy/Polyamory (Gen. 2:1-8, Matt. 19:4-6, Gen. 4:19-24, 1 Kings 11:1-9, 1 Tim. 2:2,12)
– Rape (Gen. 24:1-31, Judges 19:1-30, 2 Sam. 13:11-14)
– Incest (Lev. 18, 20, 17)
– Homosexuality (Lev. 18:22, 20:13, Rom. 1:26-27, I Cor. 6:9)
– Bestiality (Ex. 22:19, Lev. 20:15-16, Deut. 27:21)
– Prostitution (Lev. 19:29, 21:19, 1 Cor. 6:16)
– Sexual Immorality “porneia” (Matt. 19:9, I Cor. 6:13 & 18, Eph. 5:3, 1 Thess. 4:3)
Romans 1:24-27 (NIV)
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11, 16-20 (NIV)
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:16-20 (NIV)
Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Ephesians 5:3-5 (NIV)
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
A Biblical & Scientific View of Gender:
GOD isn’t concerned with your PAST, only your FUTURE.
Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)
So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!