Sentences with phrase «biblical human sexuality»

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Then again, I'm not a Biblical scholar on human sexuality.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

The biblical God, who is the creator of human sexuality, neither engages in sexual acts nor has a spouse.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

But Christianity contains more positive attitudes as well, including biblical affirmations of the human body — evident in the creation story, the concept of the incarnation and the Roman Catholic notion of the unitive purposes of sexuality.

5) Human sexuality in Biblical texts is also portrayed in terms of qualities of relationship such as faithfulness, love, obligation, and justice.

Of course, for Biblical authors also human sexuality is one of the areas of life that should be in the service of God, and, to be sure, our failure to respond to this call is sinful.

What strikes me, though, is how much Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have tried to move the discussion not so much away from natural law as toward a deeper, more biblical understanding of human sexuality.

John Piper, co-founder of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, called the Nashville Statement a «Christian manifesto» on human sexuality.

And biblical writers held a much more complicated view of human sexuality than contemporary debates have acknowledged.