Sex and the Christian
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 5
Adultery recently made the news. Iran has sentenced a 43-year-old widow and mother of two for ''illicit relationships'' with two men After receiving 99 lashes, she was sentenced for stoning. After much pleading from the United States and Great Briton, Iranian courts have relented and are considering other possible punishments.
If you watch TV, go to the movies, or read magazines today, you get the impression that the only people having good sex are the people who aren't married. Sex within the boundaries of marriage is portrayed as bland and routine in popular media. While Bernie Madoff was making off with millions from defrauding his investors, officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were surfing the Internet for pornography. According to the Atlantic Monthly, a senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office. An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as ''Sex'' or ''Pornography.'' Yet, he still managed to amass a collection of ''very graphic'' material on his hard drive by bypassing the SEC's internal filter. Seventeen of the employees were ''at a senior level,'' earning salaries of up to $222,418. The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. All the while cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008.
''Porn is the wallpaper of our lives,'' says David Amsden.
If the Bible says that a person who says in his heart ''there is no God'' (Psalm 14:1) is a fool... Then in realm of contemporary human sexuality might be rightly viewed as a ''ship of fools'' as we are tossed about in the sea of life's disordered passions.
''It is actually reported that there is sexual immoral ...
Scott Maze
1 Corinthians 5
Adultery recently made the news. Iran has sentenced a 43-year-old widow and mother of two for ''illicit relationships'' with two men After receiving 99 lashes, she was sentenced for stoning. After much pleading from the United States and Great Briton, Iranian courts have relented and are considering other possible punishments.
If you watch TV, go to the movies, or read magazines today, you get the impression that the only people having good sex are the people who aren't married. Sex within the boundaries of marriage is portrayed as bland and routine in popular media. While Bernie Madoff was making off with millions from defrauding his investors, officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were surfing the Internet for pornography. According to the Atlantic Monthly, a senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office. An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as ''Sex'' or ''Pornography.'' Yet, he still managed to amass a collection of ''very graphic'' material on his hard drive by bypassing the SEC's internal filter. Seventeen of the employees were ''at a senior level,'' earning salaries of up to $222,418. The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. All the while cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008.
''Porn is the wallpaper of our lives,'' says David Amsden.
If the Bible says that a person who says in his heart ''there is no God'' (Psalm 14:1) is a fool... Then in realm of contemporary human sexuality might be rightly viewed as a ''ship of fools'' as we are tossed about in the sea of life's disordered passions.
''It is actually reported that there is sexual immoral ...
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