Thursday, January 14, 2016

Comments on sex, pornography and judging from a reader.


Comments from a reader on chapters of the “24 Hot Potatoes in the Church Today” and my reply below each item:

“I can’ t argue much with what is said ...I mostly agree, except for women enjoying less the sex.  I think that they enjoy it just as much as men but have been brought up not to enjoy it.”

My reply:

I could not remember saying that women enjoyed sex less then men, and it took me a while to search the book as to where this came from. I found it in chapter 9 where it says in context: 

God, the Creator made sex pleasurable to attract the husband and wife to reproduce. God is not unwise, if it wasn’t a pleasant experience, He could say good-bye to procreation. By the way, sex is more principally pleasurable for men than for women and don’t let Hollywood make you believe otherwise; that’s also built-in by God for a good reason. We saw that in the chapter “Male/Female Brain and the Gender Gap. My heart aches when I see young people today being “educated” by movies and videos that are all lies and perversions, distorted demonstrations of what a woman is and should be—and a man, as well.”



“I also do not believe that pornography is responsible for all the rapes and lunatics walking around. Countries where prostitution is legal do not have any more problems than the countries that outlaw it. In fact I think it should be legalised and controlled by the government.  Like any other job it’s not everybody that can handle a job like that --  just like it’s not everybody that would be a good candidate to go to the moon.”

My reply:

Again, I did not say ‘responsible for all the rapes’, what I said in chapter 9 is that “collective pornography in any of its many forms is the intrinsic cause of most of the rapes, sexual abuse, and crimes.”

A good reminder to always read within context. Countries that have legalised prostitution have a whole lot of problems with their societies. Sex outside of marriage is wrong either way according to the Word of God -- and common sense.


“The ‘judging’ chapter is extremely confusing.....too many authors with too many different ideas.  All texts come from the Greek, how do we know that they were translated correctly to begin with?  They are 2000 year-old texts that you try to apply in 2016, and those translated texts belonged to another civilisation completely different than ours.  Somehow I think that it will never catch; all controlling cults are slowly dying and for good reasons -- even ISIS can’t maintain it.”

 My reply:

Firstly, let us not forget that my audience is primarily “Church and Christian”.  The   scriptures are an intricate part of the argument that strongly exist in the church today.

The problem is that Christians say “do not judge” to everything that goes on in the church, without consequences.  This is one of the problems for the lack of teaching about certain responsibilities that Christians have in living their lives as Christians (born-again Christians that is).

Just this morning I was reading in the book of 1 Corinthians.  Verses 14 and 15 say:

“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.”

People have a responsibility to judge between what is right and what is wrong – even the non born-again have a responsibility to know the things that are wrong. However the ‘natural man’ – that is the non born-again or the non-spiritual -- who lives without God in his/her life cannot or does not receive nor discern the things of the Spirit of God.

That's a whole Bible study in itself./dmh

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