Sexo
A Bíblia trata a sexualidade como um presente de Deus para o contexto do casamento. As Escrituras celebram a intimidade conjugal e orientam sobre pureza e santidade sexual.
A sexualidade no plano de Deus
Desde a criação, Deus projetou a intimidade sexual como expressão de amor entre marido e mulher, abençoando a união conjugal.
So in answer He said to them: "Have you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them a male and a female? And He said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be turned into one flesh.’ So then, they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God joined together let not man separate!"
A santidade na intimidade
O leito conjugal é honroso. A Bíblia celebra a alegria da intimidade dentro do casamento e orienta o casal ao amor e respeito mútuo.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; similarly also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry; since it is better to marry than to burn.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Not ever! Can you not know that the one who joins himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For "the two," He says, "will become one flesh." But he who is joined with the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Pureza sexual
Deus nos chama à santificação e à fuga da imoralidade. O corpo do cristão é templo do Espírito Santo e deve ser tratado com honra.
Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man may commit is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body. Do you not know that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? Because you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness such things is out of the question, but why can’t we talk about them? If you talk about it you will think about it, which will provide an opening for temptation. (as is fitting for saints);
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.