biblical-truth-about-sex

God’s creative intent for sexual relations is good. God created male and female, and He designed a unique, complementary sexual union between us in the bonds of heterosexual, monogamous life- long marriage. Summarizing the 2,000-year-old Christian narrative on sexuality and marriage, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes, “The sexual act is meant to reflect God’s love by fostering a union at once bodily and spiritual – and creates new life. … The fruitfulness of the marriage act reflects that God is a creator and has charged man to be an agent of his ongoing work of creation.” In Matthew 19 the Pharisees ask Jesus, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife on any grounds?” Rather than debate the lawfulness of failed marriages, Jesus takes the religious leaders back to the Garden of Eden. “Haven’t you read,” He replies, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female …more shall be uploaded later.