Two Views of Sex
| August 12, 2003 |
| By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2003 |
| Those who—with good motives to be sure—want to turn this country into a sexual wasteland—the pornographers, homosexual lobbyists, and son one—base their attitudes toward sex on an anti-Christian philosophy. In this article we have charted the differences between the Christian and the secular (materialist) view of sexuality. |
Those who—with good motives to be sure—want to turn this country into a sexual wasteland—the pornographers, homosexual lobbyists, and son one—base their attitudes toward sex on an anti-Christian philosophy. In the chart below, the differences between the Christian and the secular (materialist) view of sexuality are illustrated:
| Sex is a precious gift of God. | Sex is a biological, animal function without divine aspect or intent. |
| The sexual act and its results are to be protected by restriction to marriage. | The sexual act has no restrictions among consenting parties, including all varieties of heterosexual acts, homosexual acts, sadomasochistic sex, sex between adults and children, sex between adults and animals, whatever a person chooses. |
| The purpose of sex is the expression of committed love, for bonding in marriage, procreation, and physical-emotional pleasure. | The purpose of sex is primarily sensualistic pleasure without necessary connections to marriage or commitment. |
| The sexual act itself is a physical analogy and parallel to the nature of God and what He accomplished spiritually in the incarnation and atonement in Christ. | The nature of sex is primarily a natural (animal) function destitute of any theological implication. |
| The Christian view of sex and marriage functions to protect children and restrict divorce. | The liberal view of sex frequently leads to divorce and functions to injure children emotionally. |
| The Christian view of sex offers a genuine solution: Those who follow the Christian view of sex prohibit the possibility of unwanted pregnancy, abortion, guilt, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases. (Those who follow the Christian view of sex will not die from the sexual act.) | The secular view continues the tragedy: Those who engage in sex freely run high risks of severe physical or emotional consequences. They risk AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases and are now transmitting them to others throughout the population. |
