God and Sex

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However, in Biblical terms, you are probably not actually married.

Really, in Jewish terms,(which IS the Bible) I know you aren't married.

Admittedly, if the Jews had wiped out the Canaanites like God said they would have to do to become his people, then there wouldn't have ever have been an Abraham/Issac/Ischmael problem, and you wouldn't be arguing about this. You'd probably be arguing about what the appropriate amount of Zoroastrian fire breaths you have to give to buxom baal supporter before you can be reasonably sure that you won't have to have a fortnight after pill.

I think God's position on sex actually has to do with taking responsibility for your actions. You shouldn't have sex unless you are willing to accept the fact you could end up having babies as the result. Then you must take responsibility for said child, and provide for that child.

Meh...

Sex that honors God is for married heterosexual couples only who love God first. If you don't love and trust God first, it doesn't matter what kind of sex you have.

Getting back to OT dictates on sex, pre-marital sex is not strictly forbidden. It's only forbidden in certain express situations. Premarital sex is merely just "frowned upon" if the woman is not promised to any man or if the woman has sex with the man she's promised to. There is ALWAYS more room for love in the OT. It's only messing with something that belongs to someone else that will get you in SERIOUS trouble.

Still, though, one might infer that waiting for marriage is ideal, and I really do think it was this ideal that was in view here.

I think I'd have rather waited and have been a one-woman man for life, and sure, I'd have preferred that my wife had only been with me. Going by the law, both of us would have been either miserable or dead by now. Thankfully we live in much more merciful circumstances these days than the ancient Israelites.

On the other hand, according to the Bible, they couldn't keep the law either! lol

The Gods' favorite positions on sex actually seldom matches "The Missionary Position". This least favorite is verified by simply reading the summary description of sex in theory and practice of a strict monotheism as noted by Christopher Hitchens' in his 1995 book ibid (page 51). The earliest Gods were seldom kind to their babies (just ask Saturn), and later, if need be, they could always have them suckled by a wolf.

The Goddess of marriage, being "married" to her sibling Zeus according to some Gods, only met with feeble popularity propagating "marriage" by sacrificing her daughter.

Since the State and the Church both want more than a sufficient supply of future young adults, they take actions to their own best interests, often while shirking the Social Contract with many wiles of fraud.

Citations of the Precedent Poems of the Gods & Sexes in Latin most often results in relocation to the adult section, so I'll limit the Godly predilection to the first couple lines of a single:
"Dear reader, though my uncombed verse be queer, unfurl at once that supercilious sneer."

Tadzio

http://www.archive.org/stream/satiraeet ... t_djvu.txt
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000-02-23.html

And where is that actually made explicit?

Zeus doesn't care what i do.

Last I heard, the old man was a sucker for the reverse cowgirl position, not this "responsibility for your actions"

So, for the non-ignorant, this means that God will jerk believers off?

I'll say this much: That humans were "intelligently designed" such that they are equipped to copulate for pleasure alone, more or less on demand, in stark contrast to the vast majority of the animal kingdom which just doesn't have that ability, would suggest that our "creator" either wants this to be possible, or is just the sort of a**hole who would steal candy from a baby just to teach it a lesson.

In other words, marriage. Kids need the full family package, even if mommy and daddy don't want it.

See, this illustrates what I'm talking about: No one ever gives Satan any credit! For being an a**hole, that is. Satan ALWAYS gets a pass when non-believers talk about evil in reference to the teachings of the Bible. He's just smiling in the shadows, at all the fools who fail to realize that he is the puppetmaster of all evil -- the same fools who will soon become his unfortunate roommates for all eternity. It's sad. But I'm happy it's not me, and also that no one who chooses wisdom will fall prey to that inglorious end.

So what's the Almighty doing while Satan is toiling away? For an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent Creator, the Almighty is certainly taking a "hands-off" approach when it comes to the touchstone of evil.

In truth, it does not require any religious faith to look at oneself critically and see oneself as an imperfect moral creature. There are many bases on which we can strive to mitigate those imperfections, religion being merely one of them. When religion asks each of us to be self-aware, and to strive to be better people, then religion is at its most noble. But when religion seeks to impose an arbitrary, uncritical code of conduct on us, then religion fails in its mission to make us better people.

For the Church to be universal and Christian, then the Church must begin with the message, "you are as your creator made you."

If I remember correctly, Ragtime divorced his first wife, which means that he is guilty of compelling her to commit adultery.

Personal attacks like this one are why I left Wrong Planet.

Are you somewhat incomplete in your adherence to scripture?