Posted on 03/19/2019 11:30:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I was recently vacationing in Italy for my 20th wedding anniversary and decided to visit the Lamborghini factory. I’ve always loved the power and sleek look of the Aventador, the Diablo, the Veneno, and several other models. So, when I heard you can tour the assembly line, I persuaded my wife to drive a few hours for the rare opportunity to see firsthand how these beauties are built.
During the drive to and from Modena, where the factory is located, it was no surprise to see several Lamborghinis being road-tested. Immediately I began daydreaming about taking one out for a test spin, feeling the g-force during acceleration, and effortlessly cornering winding mountain roads.
What would it be like to take one of these low-profile supercars off road, though? Instead of humming along on the smooth asphalt streets of Modena, imagine turning sharply onto a dirt road and attempting to climb a mountain on steep and rocky terrain. It’s obvious what would happen: tears…lots of tears. The front spoiler would crack, the rims and doors would dent, and the car would high center on a bulging boulder, rendering the car inoperable in a matter of seconds. The Lamborghini would incur tens of thousands of dollars of damage in an instant.
No (sane) owner would ever do that. They know how a Lamborghini is designed to function and what conditions it’s made to handle. They know its limitations. No driving on sand. No driving on rocks. No driving through rivers. No driving off jumps. That’s a lot of “no.” Lamborghini owners don’t regard the car’s lack of off-road capability a weakness. They certainly wouldn’t name-call the Lamborghini designers or think they’re killjoys. In fact, Lamborghini owners would consider the engineers heroes to be lauded for their innovation and automotive brilliance. When you drive a Lamborghini on the open highway or along a winding mountain road, you enjoy the engineering excellence of a high performance sports car, the way it was meant to be driven.
That’s why I’m mystified by Christians who think God is a killjoy. They wonder why God restricts sexual activity to a married man and woman. That seems to leave out a lot of opportunities, many people reason. No sex before marriage (fornication). No sex outside of marriage (adultery). No sex with people of the same sex (homosexuality). No sex with animals (bestiality). No sex with close relatives (incest). That’s a lot of “no.”
But God isn’t against sex. He’s for sex, but according to the way He intended it. The Bible paints a beautiful picture of what sex is supposed to be. Remember, it’s God who made sex (Gen. 1:27–28; 2:24). Our culture didn’t give us sex. God gave us sex. In fact, it was His idea to make it procreative and His idea to make it pleasurable. The sexual act is a remarkable encounter that knits together a man and woman physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It allows them to express their love within the safe and intimate confines of a marriage commitment. Both husband and wife can be vulnerable, expressive, and intimate, while remaining safe and protected.
Any deviation from that God-ordained design causes damage. It’s not that God doesn’t want us to have sex. It’s that He doesn’t want us to get hurt or to hurt others, which is what happens when we attempt to have sex in ways it was not designed to be enjoyed. He cares about us, and that’s why He gives us guidelines.
Too often, though, people say they want to have sex “on their own terms, not on God’s.” They want to throw off the imagined shackles of religious rules they think hold them back from fun and pleasure. The problem, though, is they’re using sex in a way it was not designed to function.
So, for example, they get intimate with their partner. They become vulnerable with another person. They give themselves and knit their soul to another. But because they’re not married, there’s no commitment. There’s nothing keeping them together. They break up and experience pain and heartache because their partner has betrayed their trust.
It’s like driving a Lamborghini off road. That’s not the way it was meant to be driven. The engineers made Lamborghinis to be driven and enjoyed on the road. When you drive one “on your own terms,” you’re not breaking free of the designer’s restrictions, you’re just breaking things.
God is like a Lamborghini engineer. He created something beautiful, amazing, and special to be enjoyed in a specific way. Any deviation from His design is like wrecking a Lamborghini by driving it off road. Just about everything that’s made is made to be enjoyed within certain limits. Lamborghini engineers aren’t killjoys, and neither is God.
God did not give us rules about sex, Man did.....
Stop blaming God.
RE: God did not give us rules about sex, Man did.....
So, rules against adultery are man made?
Oh geeze. God gave us sex.
Man’s rules although there’s something about sex outside of marriage in the OT; OTTT - it’s all SAM .... (sex, alcohol and money).
This pretty much answers the question.
Two gender procreation is a proof that God created life. Evolution would never have come up with such a complicated method of procreation. Evolution can’t come up with anything for that matter.
The purpose of sex is not to have fun.
The purpose of sex is to create children.
The first rule that G-d gave man was not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But man disobeyed and now suffers the consequences.
Because of children.
Children need to have a steady home with their biological mother and father.
Wild sex usually doesn’t help in that equation.
Oh goodness....the same people are okay with tens of thousands of government rules, but God states a few commands -—with Christians——that sex is for marriage and no adultery and coveting. Sounds like good living to me and directives for a good solid marriage and life. Oh the horror——but, let’s have more government and more and more oppressive laws!
This post has developed, in an excellent way, my thinking about the role of sex with humans.
Bookmark!
“But God isn’t against sex. “
Was there sex before they ate the forbidden fruit?
Humans’ problem arises from viewing sex as a stand-alone act and proposition.
It never is.
Everything act do must have consequences, and sex is so basic to our nature, and so necessary for the species survival, its consequences are extremely broad and far-reaching.
As far as I know, the ancient Hebrews were the first to attempt to understand and codify these, in order to allow both society and the individual to maximize their happiness, and survival.
God’s laws about sex are above all, practical.
Actually, it should be both, because you don’t have dozens of children, but you do have thousands of instances of intimacy with the person you love.
The purpose of sex is not to have fun.
The purpose of sex is to create children.
Yes God most certainly did give us rules about sex and the examples of those who broke those rules....in His word: the bible.
Perhaps your familiar with it?
How about this verse?
For God has not called us to uncleanness,but unto holiness.
He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given us his holy spirit. 1Thes.4:7-8
Then why are people capable of sex after the window of procreation closes?
In 1984, the Party envisioned procreation without sex. O’Brien told Winston that Party scientists were working on abolishing the orgasm. They wanted no barriers to the “love” and worship of Big Brother. Not outside the realm of reality that leftists would attempt such a thing in the real world, “Poindexter”.
Never read the Bible, eh?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.