I crawled the web and found this well written view
The Complete Bible Guide to Love and Sex
.....'Today the same problem is before us. Whenever sexuality and spirituality are regarded as separate and unrelated things, then both dimensions suffer. For sex is demeaning when it is reduced to the level of a commodity, and religion is demeaning when it is a matter of dry ritual or abstract doctrine. In America today the disembodied spirituality of popular religion is locked in fateful struggle against the dispirited hedonism of the secular world. And the resolution to the conflict is not the triumph of one side over the other, but the rediscovery of what I would call the sacramental view of sex. It is in the interplay of the spirit and the flesh that we find our salvation. The real question is not the prurient question of who does what to whom and when? The truly important question is whether our relationships with other people reflect the love of justice of God. In the passing encounters and the fleeting moments, do we find values that endure. Faith, hope and love, these three, said Paul, and the greatest of these is love. But if love tends more and more toward love making, without the faith and the hope that give it depth and power, then love itself is lost. If, on the contrary, one is able to infuse one's sexual relationships with the saving qualities of mutual respect, trust, and commitment, then one moves closer to living a life which on earth becomes all that it shall be "in Heaven."'
- Rev Charles Henderson
i believe many christians will disagree with many of Rev Charle's theological teachings, but ultimately, everyone interprets the Word of God in their own manner, how can one ascertain that he is more right than the other?
I believe strongly that the word of god is a catalyst towards understanding what was lying dormant within us all along, and the general mass will inadvertantly take everything at face value without consideration, and start a war of words, animosity and persecution.
Why is humanity so embarrassingly dismal in this aspect? I am filled with grief everytime I hear someone justify to themselves silently within their hearts 'Do not throw your pearls to the pigs'. I grief at the retardation of Reason and Intellect for self righteous, false confidence in a truth they are not willing to forgo for a moment to see from a different point of view. I also grief at the lackluster attitude that the world has always been so and nothing can be done to change it.
Socrates becomes the greatest man for saying, 'This one thing I know, which is, that I know nothing.'
If people can open their eyes that 'truth' , the 'love of Allah/God/Jesus/Buddha' can be found in every religion, that a muslim's religious experience is not so different from a catholic's, how great would this world become? Rules, theology, truths be damned to hell.
.....'Today the same problem is before us. Whenever sexuality and spirituality are regarded as separate and unrelated things, then both dimensions suffer. For sex is demeaning when it is reduced to the level of a commodity, and religion is demeaning when it is a matter of dry ritual or abstract doctrine. In America today the disembodied spirituality of popular religion is locked in fateful struggle against the dispirited hedonism of the secular world. And the resolution to the conflict is not the triumph of one side over the other, but the rediscovery of what I would call the sacramental view of sex. It is in the interplay of the spirit and the flesh that we find our salvation. The real question is not the prurient question of who does what to whom and when? The truly important question is whether our relationships with other people reflect the love of justice of God. In the passing encounters and the fleeting moments, do we find values that endure. Faith, hope and love, these three, said Paul, and the greatest of these is love. But if love tends more and more toward love making, without the faith and the hope that give it depth and power, then love itself is lost. If, on the contrary, one is able to infuse one's sexual relationships with the saving qualities of mutual respect, trust, and commitment, then one moves closer to living a life which on earth becomes all that it shall be "in Heaven."'
- Rev Charles Henderson
i believe many christians will disagree with many of Rev Charle's theological teachings, but ultimately, everyone interprets the Word of God in their own manner, how can one ascertain that he is more right than the other?
I believe strongly that the word of god is a catalyst towards understanding what was lying dormant within us all along, and the general mass will inadvertantly take everything at face value without consideration, and start a war of words, animosity and persecution.
Why is humanity so embarrassingly dismal in this aspect? I am filled with grief everytime I hear someone justify to themselves silently within their hearts 'Do not throw your pearls to the pigs'. I grief at the retardation of Reason and Intellect for self righteous, false confidence in a truth they are not willing to forgo for a moment to see from a different point of view. I also grief at the lackluster attitude that the world has always been so and nothing can be done to change it.
Socrates becomes the greatest man for saying, 'This one thing I know, which is, that I know nothing.'
If people can open their eyes that 'truth' , the 'love of Allah/God/Jesus/Buddha' can be found in every religion, that a muslim's religious experience is not so different from a catholic's, how great would this world become? Rules, theology, truths be damned to hell.
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