Re: Sex for Procreation?
fuzz2050 wrote:what is the problem with allowing gays to marry?
From a Christian perspective allowing gays to marry is approving a sin.
Rom 1:28-32
28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32 and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. NAS
”Love your neighbor” does not mean to totally ignore God’s sovereignty.
jmc5682 wrote:I have an aunt who has been married for 48 years. She has no children as she was pysically unable to have them. Is she not supposed to make love to her husband since she will not be able to procreate. God made her too. Is birth control a sin as well? Should be just overpopulate the planet? Couples are having less kids than ever in history. They are using sex as pleasure. Is that wrong? Is anal intercourse between married (man and woman) couples wrong?
Although procreation is part of the purpose of sexual intimacy it is not the only or primary purpose.
Matt 19:4-7
"Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said,' For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh'? 6 "Consequently they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
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Sexual intimacy is to bond two people as one. It is analogous to our bonding with Christ.