So, I’m writing about sex, on the Easter weekend.
Seriously, this is a topic that we all need to understand. With people that I know, probably the most destructive fire that we can light is our sexual behavior. I won’t tell the stories, but we all know someone who brought trouble into their life, through this door.
About half a century ago, pharmaceutical drugs like antibiotics were developed, and tested. These medications could cure some incurable sexually transmitted diseases. Imagine living in a world where an infection like syphilis could destroy a life, including brain damage and mental illness.
Apparently, the famous gangster Al Capone suffered from the severe effects of that disease and died in that state. I had a friend, when I was young, who was born blind. His eyes never could function because his mother had syphilis when he was born, and her disease infected and damaged his eyes, in the birth canal.
This was as terrible to see as it sounds.
About the same time that antibiotics were developed, medical science also invented and produced birth control pills. This allowed women to avoid unwanted pregnancies. When these pills were sold widely, at a low price, human behavior changed.
These medical miracles to control diseases and to prevent pregnancy, came just before a social revolution, and they were probably the main drivers of the change. When I was a boy, I witnessed the beginning of the sexual revolution. My strict religious family would not even talk about some things, but my friends at school were very open. Sometimes we church kids were like social rejects.
If you want to see how far our Western society has come, here is a video, telling us, blandly and helpfully, how to have “polyamorous” relations, which means sex with multiple partners, with no guilt:
If my mother was alive, I would not show her that video.
We should all know that Western societies have gone through a moral revolution, in the last half century. The revolution is continuing, with angry public debates about same-sex, and trans sex issues. Now, it takes some courage to call some behavior “immoral” and critics could risk push-back, and even criminal prosecution and lawsuits, in some places.
Human sexual behavior is a dangerous swamp, now.
I think most people in the world know what the Bible says about sex:
Don’t!!
There are many restrictions on our behavior, including moral or sexual practices. I will skip the details, but we all know the rules are there, somewhere.
Did you know, there is one book in the Bible, where the theme attached to sex is DO!! … ? Our natural human instinct is given some positive direction. Really.
If you ever find some Christian comedy, I’m sure you will hear some jokes about that one book in the Bible. Did you know that there is Christian comedy?
Did you know that many Christians laugh at one book in the Bible?
Here is one example: https://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=KWG6LWNX
Yes, these words are in that book: “Your hair is like a flock of goats, leaping down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing” (Song of Solomon 4: 1 and 2).
We might laugh, but probably our modern love words will make people laugh, in a few hundred years.
We probably understand these words easily: “Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.” (Song of Solomon 4: 5)
Physical attraction is obviously written in this book of the Bible, and it is a normal part of our human experience.
I am like most Christians, and I didn’t pay much attention to that part of the Bible, but I realized recently, that we should get the message. The ancient poetic language may seem strange, after about three thousand years, but something is clear and easy to understand. There is a central theme to the book, and we should all see it:
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. (Song of Solomon 2: 4)
My beloved is mine, and I am his. (Song of Solomon 2: 16)
We have a story of two people, who worked very hard to build love for each other. I have lived long enough to know that we can’t just ‘fall in love’ like people in an old movie. Love for another person is something that we can build.
With our modern social morals, it is important to say, that there are only two characters in the story, and they are a man and a woman. Those two worked hard to build something permanent and exclusive for each other.
Maybe we shouldn’t laugh at that book. In our modern thinking, it gives us another revolution.
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