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Or worse still, the suggestion that I must have some huge sexual sin in my life because I have a pelvic pain disorder.

Wow, I've never seen or heard of anyone publicly confessing a sexual sin in a mainline Protestant church.

Even if you have struggled with sexual sin in the past, what the devil meant for shame, hurt and brokenness, can be redeemed.

She just wrote a very interesting piece on obeying God, salvation / works, and also specially masturbation — but I think this can also be applied more broadly to sexual sin in general.

Purity culture also creates a push toward marriage as a redemptive state that can «erase» sexual sins in a relationship.

Not exact matches

note to how this relates: - some have suggested the idea «homosexuality» is not really in the Bible (can be lumped together with other sexual sins?)

By commenting on sexuality as an aspect of our lives in which we can live for God, this seems to imply more than simply refraining from sexual sin.

«some have suggested the idea «homosexuality» is not really in the Bible (can be lumped together with other sexual sins?)»

However, there really IS something biblical and unmovable in the fact that Jesus declared the woman caught in sexual sin to be forgiven, BUT ALSO demanded that she sin no more.

You are looking for them to just be accepted in this life, mine would be to get them saved and out of their sin ----- just like the couple that have attended the church I pastor who are living together in sexual sin.

bob — In much of fundamentalist Christianity, here in the USA, we are taught that sexual lust toward someone who is not your spouse, is a sin (You know, the old «committing adultery in your heart» syndrome?In much of fundamentalist Christianity, here in the USA, we are taught that sexual lust toward someone who is not your spouse, is a sin (You know, the old «committing adultery in your heart» syndrome?in the USA, we are taught that sexual lust toward someone who is not your spouse, is a sin (You know, the old «committing adultery in your heart» syndrome?in your heart» syndrome?).

Thus, the sin committed by one who continues to engage in sexual relations with someone to whom he or she is not (currently) married may not be grievously culpable.

Along the way, Milbank suggests that the Church's emphasis on sexual sins and on hell played a role in secularization, and he ends by asking how we can affirm at least some «procedure and institutionalization» in reinventing a more participatory, erotic, and interpersonal Christianity.

zefi, Suppose my son is living with his girlfriend in a sexual relationship -LCB- sin as defined by the Bible -RCB-.

I had a friend who was engaging in a sexual sin (not homosexual, but that doesn't matter), while she was still Christian.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

SGM evoked a religious freedom defense in 2013 when the confidentiality of its pastoral counseling was challenged, stating, «SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse.»

I guess the confusion for me is that «sexual immorality,» as far as the NT audience was concerned, referred back to the sexual sins outlined in the OT law, and it seems like sleeping with one's father's wife would be on par with homosexuality, which is included in the same set of «sexually immoral» sins.

Women suffer shame and guilt not just around sexual sin but around the sheer fact of living in a body.

«SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse,» a representative of SGM said in a November 14 statement.

The sexual life participates in the realm of freedom, in both sin and grace.

In this context he defines the sin of contraception as to «subordinate the primary purpose potential of the sexual function and organs to secondary purposes of the sexual act, this subordinationunderstood of a physical ordering of nature»; «the primary end intrinsic to the physical nature of the act [may not be] subordinated to other purposes».

The second principle for a sexual ethic is that we have to speak of sex, as of every aspect of human life, in a double way, from the standpoint of essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.

Sexual taboo was the big sin from day one in this culture.

Again, sorry for the long post, but I do believe that there are many aspects that I touch on, that many people haven't considered, in their questioning of some forms of sexual expression as being a «sin».

But alongside the «deadly sins» mentioned in Galatians like «sexual immorality,» «debauchery» and «drunkenness» are acts that may be less outwardly apparent, but no less dangerous to our souls: «hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, faction.»

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

The fact is, however, that while the Talmud criticizes Samson's sexual sins, it also explicitly lavishes praise on the manner in which he protected Israel from its enemies.

Charles, I think there are a lot more serious forms of flaunting rebellion that goes on in the church today than whatever sexual sin the LGBT people are involved in.

For example, Ezekiel writes, «Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters lived in pride, plenty and thoughtless ease; they supported not the poor and the needy; they grew haughty and committed abominations [sexual orgies to bring fertility] before me.

These attempts to glorify and pacify those who are flaunting rebellion against God using sexual sin is not new at all and God Himself promised the deception and delusion that is now rampant - just like in the days of Sodom and Lot: «They called to Lot, «Where are the men who came to ⌊ stay with ⌋ you tonight?

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

Scott mentions some examples of grievous willful sins such as murder, rape, sexual immorality, etc. and wonder what they mean in light of the gift of salvation freely given by faith in Christ.

You seem to have highlighted particular sins as though some are worse than others all sin leads to death not just the big ones because we all are sinners.All have gone astray none are righteous.I believe the worst sin is pride idolatry is the first commandment we set ourselves as Gods.Regardless of what the sin is, our hearts are condemned by our pride.It wasnt the sin of homosexuality or sexual deviance that destroyed sodom.It was there pride and it is one of our biggest stumbling blocks in our christian walk or it certainly was for me.We look at the story of the adulterous woman and we think adultery is a terrible crime but the story is for our benefit to show that we all are sinners that Jesus does nt condemn us but came to save us.And when Jesus says go and sin no more he was not only talking to the woman but everyone else that was around judging her for her sin its a universal message that we all need to see that we all are condemned because of our sin that Jesus came to save us and that we turn from our sin and follow him.Because he is the way the truth and the life.brentnz

Verging on the incredible, in the week following the release of the NRB report, the Los Angeles Archdiocese issued a statement declaring: «The Church treated clerical sexual abuse primarily as a moral weakness and a sin.

Here, Paul is referring to such fleshly sins that disqualify a man from preaching and leading the church, particularly being blameless and above reproach in the sexual area, since such sin is a disqualification (see Ps.

Perhaps that's why we spend so much time fixated on the physical motes in the eyes of others (sexual sin, for example) and neglect the spiritual logs — like pride and hypocrisy — in our own.

A priest whom Kennedy considers to be «fully developed» in psychological terms says that masturbation is not sinful, that he doesn't accept the «theory of mortal and venial sin», and that there is not much guilt or sinfulness associated with sexual misbehaviour.

It is true that the Church has concentrated too much on prohibitions, has declared (sexual) taboos, and has sometimes, in preaching on sin, internalized guilt feelings.

As humans in a broken sinfilled world we often struggle with «The Desires of The Flesh» found in Galatians 5:16 - 26, which are: «Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,...» Because we are human, but we CAN CHANGE, because Christ forgave us at the cross of EVERY sins as Jeremy states over and over in his message.

Directed by Marie Fortune, a pastor and author of Sexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family vioSexual Violence, The Unmentionable Sin: An Ethical and Pastoral Perspective (Pilgrim Press, 1983), the Center has developed resources for congregational study and action, including a study guide for teen - agers on preventing sexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family viosexual abuse, a monograph on violence against women of color, and a manual for congregational use in discovering and developing community resources on family violence.

Sexual sin is not tolerated in our churches.

The reason same - sex relations were condemned is because they were not in the context of a loving, long - term relationship (May I ask - do you tell homosexuals that are only in a short - term, sexual relationship that they are sinning, and if so what is their response?)

If you were homeless, or addicted to drugs, or struggling with sexual temptations (heterosexual is no less a sin), would you be interested in listening to someone who called you names and told you that you were going to hell?

And this love makes us forget anything so that the mere thought of sexual sin becomes boring and ridiculous in comparison with an ecstatic love in the Holy Spirit that fulfills our every desire — with Pentecostal FIRE.

It was a decade ago, so sexual abuse was still very much kept under wraps in institutions, and people were still being told to forgive the sin, look at all the good they've done, don't judge....

If He didn't judge those in sexual sin why should we think we have the right??

While everyone can be susceptible to sexual sin, an itinerant ministry in which accountability structures are weak, where the preacher or evangelist has a large ego and spends many days away from home living in hotel rooms, is often particularly vulnerable.

But I have heard multiple reports, involving different groups, in which the group reacted more forcefully to someone who said, «I'm gay and celibate» than they reacted to someone who was actively involved in sexual sin.

When sin is defined in terms of sexual purity, the focus of the Christian life shifts away from expression of love for God and neighbor to an obsession with internal conflict between «higher» and «lower» impulses.