When he is speaking about the nation of Israel and their worship of other idols, he uses words such as prostitute, lavished your favors, degraded your beauty, "offering your body with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by", breasts being fondled, genitals like those of donkeys, emission like that of horses. This is found in the first chapter of Piper and Taylor's book. "God has Designed Sexuality as a Way to Know Him More Fully" "The language and imagery of sexuality are the most graphic and most powerful that the bible uses to describe the relationship between God and his people - both positively (when we are faithful) and negatively (when we are not)." Piper and Taylor, Sex and the Supremacy of Christ We do not have to divorce ourselves from God and Jesus in the middle of sex in order to allow ourselves to experience the full, sensual enjoyment possible during sex. Jesus is to be Lord over every area of our life and God speaks to us in every area of our life, as we will see. What do the two have to do with each other? Yet that is not what we find in the bible. When you think about it, really, he never had sex, so that seems so inappropriate to put sex and Christ in the same sentence, right?. This is even more true of the words Sex and Christ.
Even the two words, God and Sex, in the same sentence seems inappropriate.
Sex is over here on the far right and God is over here on the far left and they never interact. It is often difficult for Christians to grasp this idea because for many, views and thoughts about sexuality have no connection to their views and thoughts about God. God has used the language and imagery of sexuality to both communicate with us and help us know him. We have obtained the permission of Piper and Taylor to briefly review 3 major points from their book here. One of our favorite texts for helping people understand the biblical and spiritual view of sex is Sex and the Supremacy of Christ by Piper and Taylor. That is the goal of this entry: gaining a clearer understanding of some of the most used scriptures in the bible on sex and sexuality in order to align those views with how we live out our sexual relationship. In order to get there, it is important to understand what the genuine, biblical expectations and views are of the marital sexual relationship. You may have some serious areas you are working on in order to develop a mutually fulfilling sex life. It is nor our wish that this next chapter fall into that category.
Lessons about how sex should be great, that everyone should be having great sex, and that you need to make your sex life great, can lead to hopelessness when things are not going well. For many, books and retreats discussing sex are discouraging and to be avoided. Many of you reading this text may have experienced reading books on sex or gone to marriage retreats where sex was one of the topics. God, in His word, addresses sexuality in a much deeper and finer way, so this entry is devoted to a beginning discussion on that. That is about the sum total of what most people think the bible says about sex. If your spouse wants it, you better do it, or they will struggle with sexual temptation and go find it somewhere else.
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