SEX: Biology, Design and Salt and Light

Potentially Inflammatory Statement to Follow (please only read if you consider yourself a Christian and that you have a thick skin and that you are open to correction if you are wrong):

I will first say that I could be wrong here and I am open to correction if I am…

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This is not intended to be condescending or antagonistic (okay maybe a little bit of each) but it does seem that one of the most obvious facts missed by our culture (including many Christians) is that God created sex for the purpose of pro-creation. No matter how hard the culture tries to deny this, creation (biology) says differently.

Our culture has come to view sex as something that is first and foremost for pleasure and then when it is convenient, you flip a switch to turn on the “baby-making” feature and then as soon as you can you turn that feature off again.

And I am afraid that Christians have bought into this thinking too. Is it any wonder that our young people grow up thinking this way too? The culture has done all it can to separate sex from pro-creation but God’s design was a good one.

80% of all women who have abortions are not married. According to the Guttmacher Institute, of that percentage most are using some kind of contraception the month they became pregnant. 

And then those people are left scratching their heads and calling their pregnancy “unplanned”. This poster says there is nothing unplanned about it. It is by design even in today’s high-tech medicine world that tries to thwart it.

As Christians we should be salt and light in this area. We should embrace God’s design which is that our bodies be left to do what God intended them to do. If we as Christians sent a message to the world that sex and pro-creation are inseparable, would that not be salt and light to at least our children who watch what we do and learn?

What I am saying here is that part of the problem we have with sexual immorality in the church is in part because married couples sitting in the pews have sterilized themselves, just like the world does, and have lost the opportunity to be salt and light even to their own children. The message is, sex is for my own pleasure and kids are optional. The message is sex and pro-creation are separate. This is not only false but dangerous and a serious stumbling block to our young people.