@aaronssongs,
aaronssongs;27931 wrote:I get so sick and tired of so-called self righteous types, who think that "The Bible" is the end all and be all, and should be taken, colon, comma and period, verbatim, without informed consent or using one's common sense or ability to reason.
Dr. Ron Smothermon, author of "Winning through Enlightenment" ( one of my favorite books), writes about sex, " The human has definite physical form. There are two standard varieties. One comes equipped with a long (sometimes) organ called a penis. The other variety comes equipped with a potential space in which to put the long (sometimes) organ. People who like to do this are called "heterosexual". What they like to do is fill the space and create friction with their organs. However, prior to all of this there usually occurs an elaborate courting game with certain formulated ( by the culture) behavior. Sometimes survival and love are rolled into the act and the whole thing is called "marriage". Sometimes, survival alone is rolled into the act and it is called "prostitution". Sometimes love alone is rolled into the act and it is called an "affair". Occasionally, the act produces new individuals. This may or may not be desired by the participants. Killing the individual before birth is called an "abortion". There are other people who like to relate sexually with individuals with the same body type as theirs. These people are known as "homosexuals" or "gays". Except for body configuration, and the substitution of certain orifices, the issues and the activities are exactly the same, except the creation of new individuals, and the issues that brings up do not apply.
....you think certain forms (of sex) ( and almost always those forms are different than yours) are "bad" or "wrong". You also have judgements that other forms (almost always yours) are "good" or "right".
Now for the real truth about sex. There is no right or wrong about it. Your belief systems are only your belief systems, not truth. You remember "truth".
That's the guy who stands on his own merits, without support from your beliefs. More make-wrongs occur in the area of sexuality than any other area, except race.
The body is as clear a statement of Context as exists in the physical world. The sexual aspect of the body is as clear a statement of the Self as there is in the physical world. It is sort of a cosmic joke that it appears to consist of just so much plumbing. Sex can work for you at the level of satisfaction for which there are no words, if you treat it as a physical manifestation of Self.
And sex can really not work at all, if you treat it as what it appears to be: just so much plumbing. There is a lot of baggage and a lot of "stuff" to unload
about sex before it will work perfectly in your life. I suggest you start unloading and become enlightened."
I suggest that those who are so concerned with how other people have sex, are miffed and frustrated because sex isn't working in their own lives...so much so, they feel compelled to use 2 or 3, maybe even 4 antiquated verses in The Bible, to make others feel as miserable as they do, about sex not working in their own lives.
Elaborate rationalization.
Personally, I could care less about what you do to your own body. I care what your or others who choose to abuse themselves with perversions do to your mind by degrading yourself. The degraded mind then chooses to accept other degrading/corrupt behavior as "normal" and in keeping with their self-hatred. This is wrong and leads to a gradual corruption of society when others follow your lead.
I have to live in that society. My children have to live in that society. I care about what they are exposed to. If this were just a matter of people doing it in the closet or the privacy of their bedrooms the issue wouldn't be as obvious. Stop patronizing us with the falacious argument that people who degrade and corrupt themselves don't hurt the rest of society. No man is an island. Stop pretending we're stupid. We aren't.
God cares what you do.
People who believe the Bible just remind people like you, when you bring up the subject or when you allude to similar issues, what the Bible (God's Word) says about the behavior you defend.
When the woman was caught in the act of adultery and brought to Jesus, Jesus asked those who were innocent to cast the first stone. They didn't cast a stone. He asked her if anyone condemned her. She said no one had. Jesus told her, neither did he. He then told her to go and sin no more. This indicates He thought of sexual immorality as sin. Many other passages indicate sexual immorality is a sin. Homosexuality is listed as a sin in the old and new testaments.
