This & That on Modernity and Sex

In Modernity sex is seen as;

Individual
Private (nobody else’s business)
Consent is the rule
Pleasure is the principle

This is the view one gets with the autonomous self. However for the Christian, the above is all decidedly non-Christian.

For the Christian, the sexual relation

1.) Supports the community

2.) Is the concern of the community
3.) Consent is the rule BUT only as in the context of marriage
4.) Progenitors are the principle

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Once you redefine society with sex as a social construct, you end up with a dehumanized society in which there can be no biological Mother or Father or Son or Daughter or Husband or Wife. This means the family no longer has any stable intrinsic meaning or definition and without any stable meaning or definition the State will end up with the authority to “define” family. This gives the state unprecedented powers to micromanage the family.

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In Biblical thought, sexual relations can be used to either create and support a community or to destroy a community. This reminds us that any marriage that introduces a heterogeneous element into an otherwise homogeneous social order is an attack on that social order.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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