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God's Obsession With Sex and the Naked Body

Skwim

Veteran Member
I say obsession because sex and nakedness in one form or another appear in the Bible to an inordinate degree. Of course most instances have to do with the immorality or the prohibition of various acts, from merely looking at someone with lustful intent to not having sex with animals. Yet there is the other side as well. God recognizes how desirable female breasts can be and even wishes they satisfy men---those of one's wife anyway--which seems an odd thing to want for men. Not a healthy wife. Not a fertile wife, Not even a happy wife, but a wife whose "breasts satisfy you always." And despite this wish, god really doesn't want men to take it much further. Enjoy your wife's breast all you like but don't have sexual relations with her---reminds me of a girl I once went out with in high school. But despite all the warnings about leading an immoral life, and his wish that one never have sex, god had no problem with one guy offering his two virgin daughters to others in his town for sex, and then the two daughters having sex with him. (None of the three suffered any consequences.) So go figure. :shrug:

In any case, god seems to delight in relating sexually tinged events and reminding the reader of his thinking on various aspects of sex, over, and over, and over again; and to a lesser extent, his interest in nudity.


The following are versus and paraphrases of versus as found in the NIV or ESV Bibles. (There are many more but I got tired of all the copy-paste work.)


Genesis 2:25: And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

Genesis 3:6-7: She took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.

Genesis 9:20-29 Noah lay uncovered in his tent. Then Shem and Japheth covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.

Genesis 19:8: Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please.

Genesis 19:13, 35 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him,

Genesis 29:23 In the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.

Exodus 20:26 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.

Exodus 22:19 Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.

Leviticus 18:6: No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations."

Leviticus 18:20: And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife

Leviticus 18:23: Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it."

Leviticus 20:13: If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination

Leviticus 18:22: You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand.

Numbers 31:17-18: kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.

2 Samuel 11:2: when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing;

2 Kings 23:7: And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes

Proverbs 5:18-19: May you rejoice in the wife of your youth. May her breasts satisfy you always,

Song of songs 7:7-8 : Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,

Hebrews 13:4: God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Matthew 5:28: Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 15:19-20" For out of the heart come evil thoughts, sexual immorality.

Mark 7:22-23: (Adultery). . . lewdness, are evils come from inside and defile a person.

1 Peter 2:11 Abstain from the passions of the flesh.

Acts 15:29: Abstain from sexual immorality.

Romans 1:26-27: God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men

1 Corinthians 6:9: The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers or men who have sex with men will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians 6:13, 18: The body, . . .is not meant for sexual immorality. Flee from sexual immorality. Whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

1 Corinthians 6:18: Flee from sexual immorality. Whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1-3 It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9: But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry

1 Corinthians 10:8: We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did,

1 Corinthians 12:23: And on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

2 Corinthians 12:21: Repent of sexual sin and debauchery

Galatians 5:19: The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;

Ephesians 5:3: Not a hint of sexual immorality,

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 You should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans.

1 Timothy 1:10:The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality,

Jude 1:7: Just as Sodom and Gomorrah indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,​



Keep in mind that I have no quarrel with god's preoccupation with sex or nudity, but I do wonder what others make of it, Christian and otherwise.

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oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
God's Obsession With Sex and the Naked Body

I say obsession because sex and nakedness in one form or another appear in the Bible to an inordinate degree.
Just like today, then?
Our western media is totally absorbed with sex and the naked body, so God is just about in balance with our world just now, yes?

Keep in mind that I have no quarrel with god's preoccupation with sex or nudity, but I do wonder what others make of it, Christian and otherwise..
I don't think you'll have a lot of hysteria from the 'otherwise' groups, but some of the Christian groups do get rather righteous about sex and nakedness, even if some of their own do get involved in the most embarrassing scandals.
 

Stevicus

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Keep in mind that I have no quarrel with god's preoccupation with sex or nudity, but I do wonder what others make of it, Christian and otherwise.

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I guess it's a truism in every age: Sex sells.

A publisher may not be interested if it doesn't have some steamy stuff in there to spice things up and grab the reader.
 
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