I know from personal experience how amazing sex and marriage can be. But I have also seen how much weight people, especially Christians, can put on the idea of everything should work.
Very often, the justification is down to a particular meaning attributed to marriage or sex, with supporting arguments lifted from the Bible. Except, I’m not sure all of those meanings actually hold, or that that these interpretations of the Bible stack up.
I’m not against marriage, but the church needs to unthink and rethink a lot of what we believe we know on this subject. And a lot of that will begin with more careful thought about sex itself.
- How Jesus explains divorce and adultery (it’s about treachery, not sex)
- Gregoire, Grudem and grounds for divorce: why didn’t Jesus mention abuse?
- Does the Bible speak against marital rape? Yes… I think it’s hidden in Jesus’s teachings on divorce.
- Paul’s letter to his prodigal daughter (and the paradigm shift hidden within 2 Corinthians 10–13)
- The prodigal and prostitutes – and the surprise gender-flip in Jesus’s parable
- Why do (some) evangelicals insist that all sex outside marriage is ‘sexual immorality’? Because it’s not in the Bible.
- Let’s talk about sarx! When Paul criticised ‘the flesh’ he wasn’t being body-negative
