Sexuality : Design

⌂  Biblical Sexuality  ←← →→ Cultural Sexuality

⌂  Starting Point 

    God                            Man         
      ↓                                 ↓

    Man                             god

                    God 

                      ↓

                   Bible

                     ↓

                  Man

☼  4 Lies Our Culture Tells Us About Sex (Relevant 2/2015)

   

     1. The context of sex doesn’t matter.

      2. Sex is an act of taking, rather than an act of giving.

      3. Sex is a physical, one dimensional experience.

      4. We cannot control sex, because it controls us. 

☼  imago Dei …. Genesis 1:26

      ► A divine counsel precedes the creation of man!

      ●  Image →  tselem…. “to carve or cut off”

          Likeness →  Demuth…. “refers to similairity”

                      

      ╬  We are carved from the image of God to be similar to Him.

☼  Sexuality ….. Genesis 1:27

     ►  Human sexuality is grounded in the imago Dei.

□ Ephesians 4:24          □  Colossians 3:10

     ⌂  3 Powerful Truths (David Semands – Healing of Memories)

1. Our sexuality is at the heart of our identity.

2. Sex is a very powerful emotion.

3. Sexual feelings can be the most contradictory emotions

               we humans experience.

☼  Creation …. Genesis 2:7

☼  Gender / Family /Marriage …. Genesis 2:21-25

• The creation of boundaries.

• Does the Creator have the absolute and solitary right

              to define the purpose for what He has created?

☼              Truth                                       Chaos

                    ↓                                                ↓

       Bible                                       Culture 

1. God created you in His image         1. You evolved.

2. God gave you gender.                     2. You determine you gender.

3. God gives you purpose & identity.  3. You determine purpose & identity. 

4. God gives us the gift of sex and      4. You determine who you have sex

    the boundaries to protect us.               with –no boundaries.