Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts

2013/08/09

We Are The Evil Empire



There was a time where the United States of America stood for freedom, justice, Godly morals, love thy neighbor, and that which was good in man.  It really was not that long ago.  It was in my lifetime.  When I look at the country now, I don’t know who we have become.  We are unrecognizable now from the moral super power we once were.  Not only are we unrecognizable; but we are living a delusion, thinking we still are the moral super power.


IN my lifetime, we used to believe that every child had the right to live.  That changed in 1971 and now we have slaughtered over 50,000,000 people on the alters of liberalism.  How can we speak to others of human rights when we do not even value the lives of our own humans?  The souls of the murdered scream for vengeance.


In my lifetime, we used to value ourselves and our bodies.  Sex was viewed as a sacred thing given only in love to a partner of the opposite sex in a lifelong bond.  Now we live in a society of sexual deviants that only cares about self-gratification in the moment.  We have devalued the bond between two people of the opposite sex that we feel it is ok to have intercourse with anyone, without consequence or responsibility.  Entire industries have sprung up to serve the self-serving instant gratification seeking spoiled brats, including the murder factories mentioned above. 


In my lifetime, you could not even show a belly button on the screen.  Today it is almost impossible to find a movie without a pornographic sex scene between unmarried people.  The themes of movies were once good vs evil where the good triumphed in the end compared to today’s films of special effects and gore where you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys and you are never quite sure which one won.  How can we speak of being a moral people when our pop icons are barely more than porn stars who have flashed their private areas to millions to gawk at?


In my lifetime, sex between two people of the same sex was considered a perversion and a mental illness.  Today, not only is it considered normal, but we are redefining our social institutions to accommodate this perversion of nature.  Now that this is normalized, we have people who want to have sex with little children wanting to be recognized and accepted into society as normal as well.


In my lifetime, Foods could be mostly trusted to be what they were naturally.  The beef, chicken, fruits and vegetables were closely related to the exact same things we had eaten naturally since our beginnings.  Today we have these scientifically produced monster foods that are destroying the very environment we need to survive in and may even be killing us off slowly.  In a sick need for greed we are putting our entire existence on this planet in jeopardy just to create a few more bucks into a corporations coffers.


Doesn’t it seem a little odd that today, in the country we once considered the evil empire just 30 years ago, Russia, Bibles are allowed and taught in their schools, and sex is at least recognized as only normal between a man and woman?  And that this evil empire considers what we are doing to our food supply so dangerous to the existence of people on this planet that they are saying war may result from our tampering with the food chain?  Maybe Russia is not the evil empire any more.  I think we have taken up that role, and most don’t even see it.

2013/07/14

Eunuchs



Mathew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Here in the middle of Mathew 19 we have a rather difficult and cryptic statement made by Jesus concerning eunuchs.  Looking at the passage in context, Jesus had just been speaking on divorce and sexual purity.  His teaching gave a much broader definition of adultery than what was understood by the Israelite.  Jesus said that only for fornication can there be divorce.  Any other reason and the new marriage was adulterous.  Then he goes on to talk about the eunuchs.

What is a eunuch?  According to the dictionary
1: a castrated man placed in charge of a harem or employed as a chamberlain in a palace
2: a man or boy deprived of the testes or external genitals
3: one that lacks virility or power

This seems insufficient to cover all of the meanings Jesus brings up, so lets go back and take a look at the original language.  In the Greek, the word was eunouchos (and eunochizo), that hold a similar meaning to the dictionary definition literally, but, can also mean to live unmarried, and by implication, without having sex.  So what Jesus was talking about was abstaining from sexual relations when one is not married.

There are some that were born that way, perhaps being literally incapable by defect, or perhaps born with a low sex drive or disinterest in sex.  There were some eunuchs made that way by men, these were mostly of the slave ranks or of those who worked with the royal harems.  They were physically made unable to perform.  Then there are some who have made themselves abstinent for the kingdom of God.

It is in this last context where we find the correlation to what Jesus was speaking about in the previous verses.  Jesus had been clearly saying that many folks had been committing adultery.  The alternative to this is abstinence, being a eunuch for God.  In verse 11 though Jesus says that not everyone can bear being abstinent.  It is only for those to whom it is given.  The rest had better stay married, or reconcile.

My next blog I will get a little more into the single life as a Christian.