Greg Wertime #fundie facebook.com

What I’m talking about is not separating biology from spirituality, but acknowledging the difference between one facet and the other. A Van Gogh painting was made by Van Gogh’s brain synapses that moved his arm, wrist and finger muscles that moved pigments on a canvass. A Van Gogh painting also has a unique mystery to it that impresses on our emotions in a special way. One facet of a Van Gogh painting doesn’t diminish the other, and neither should the biological facet of sexuality diminish the spiritual facet or vice versa.If you only believe that sexuality is a biological reality, you are ignoring the spiritual reality that Scripture affirms is imbued into it, such as man being the glory of God and woman being the glory of man. The idea sexuality is purely a biological reality, un-infused with any spiritual meaning, is a Gnostic heresy that leads to the church to more egregious expressions of Gnosticism. If sexuality is a purely biological reality, then there is no basis for a spiritual claim on a biological reality any more than there can be a sinful way to breathe. It is not enough to say that you claim that sexuality is only a biological reality but then claim that certain sexual desires and expressions are sin because the Bible says so. You cannot maintain a concept of sin for very long while ignoring the spiritual architecture of reality that would be necessary for it to be sin. Once you have separated spiritual purpose from gender, separating gender from the body is the next step on a Gnostic path.

Sexual purity is connected to acknowledging that there is a spiritual dimension to sexuality, encoded in differences between men and women that transcend biology, and benefits when cultural space is designated for men and women, respectively, to reflect God’s image differently. A non-Christian culture that has this this will be more stable and achieve more sexual purity than a supposed Christian culture that has thought its way into a purely material view of sexuality, while still trying to pay lip service to the Biblical idea of sexual sin.

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