GOD'S VIEW TOWARD HUMAN SEXUALITY
ORIGINAL BLESSING
Genesis
Genesis 1:26-28
26 God said, "Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness. Let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over
the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth."
27 So Elohiym created man in His own image, in the image of Elohiym created He
him, MALE and FEMALE created He them.
28 And God blessed them and said, Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, subdue it, have dominion over the
fish over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living
thing that moves on the earth.
1:31 And God saw
everything that He had made, and behold, IT WAS VERY GOOD.
Genesis 2:18-25
18 And Jehovah said, "It is not
good for the man to be alone, I will make him a helper
suitable for him."
19 Out of the ground Jehovah Elohiym formed every beast of the field and every
bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. Whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to
every beast of the field, but among them all, for Adam there was not found any
helper suitable for him.
21 And Jehovah Elohiym caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept. And the Lord took one of Adam's ribs and
closed up the flesh in its place.
22 Then the rib which Jehovah Elohiym had taken from man He made into a
woman and brought her to the man.
23 Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh, she
shall be called Woman because she was taken out of
24 Jehovah said, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and
be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
25 They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
(man was made from the
dust of the earth, woman made from the rib taken out of the side of the man.) Genesis 2:7 and
2:21-22
SIN ENTERED THE WORLD
The result of sin:
Genesis
3:16 God said to the woman, I will greatly multiply your sorrow in your
conception.
6:1-4 Sons of God married Daughters of Men
(produced Nephilim)
NEW BEGINNING WITH BLESSING
Genesis
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
COMMANDMENTS OF THE LAW
Exodus
21:7-11 Regarding a purchased maidservant
and a man's responsibility toward her,
² She may not be sold, but she may be redeemed.
² If he betrothed her to his son, he must treat her as a daughter.
² If he takes another wife he shall not diminish her food, clothing, or marriage rights.
20:14 Do not commit adultery.
22:16-17 Penalty for seduction of a virgin
22:19 Bestiality (sexual relations with an animal) brings death penalty.
Forbidden Sex
Leviticus
18:6 Incest: Sex with near relative
18:7 Mother
18:8 Step Mother
18:9 Sister or Half Sister
18:10 Granddaughter
18:11 Half Sister
18:12 Aunt (father's side)
18:13 Aunt (mother's side)
18:14 Aunt (uncle's wife, father's side)
18:15 Daughter In Law
18:16 Sister In Law (brother's wife)
18:17 A Woman and her Daughter and her Grand Daughter
18:18 Sister In Law (wife's sister) Do not marry your wife's sister while your wife is still alive.
ADDITIONAL COMMANDMENTS
Leviticus
18:19 Do not have sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual period.
18:20 Do not commit adultery
18:21 Do not give your children to be sacrificed to Molech
18:22 Homosexuality forbidden as an ABOMINATION to God.
18:23 Bestiality (sexual relations with an animal)
18:24-25 The
above sins are the reason the land had vomited out its inhabitants that
Leviticus
19:20-22 Sexual relations with a bondmaid who is betrothed to another.
19:29 Do not prostitute your daughter or cause her to become a whore or a prostitute.
20:1-5 Penalty for sacrificing children to Molech (death by stoning)
20:6 Penalty for people
who follow witchcraft (familiar spirits, and wizards) following them in sexual
immorality (no atonement)
20:10 Penalty for adultery (death)
20:11 Penalty for sexual contact with father's wife (death)
20:12 Penalty for sexual contact with daughter in law (death)
20:13 Penalty for homosexual acts (death)
20:14 Penalty for marrying wife and her mother (death by fire)
20:15-16 Penalty for bestiality (sexual relations with an animal) (death)
20:17 Penalty for marriage to Half Sister (cut off in the sight of their people), he has dishonored his sister
20:18 Penalty for sexual contact with a woman during her menstrual period (cut off from among his people)
20:19 Aunt (sister of mother or father) (They shall bear their sin)
20:20 Aunt (uncle's wife) (They shall bear their sin)
20:21 Sister In Law (brothers wife) (they shall remain childless)
Leviticus
21:7 A priest must not marry a woman who is a whore, a
prostitute, profane, or divorced. A priest is holy to his God.
21:9 Penalty for a priest's daughter who becomes a prostitute (death by fire)
Numbers
5:11-31 JEALOUSY, suspicion of unfaithfulness (test
& curse)
Deuteronomy
5:16 Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long, and that it
might go well with you in the land the Lord
gives you.
5:18 Do not commit adultery
Deuteronomy
21:10-14 Responsibility toward sexual relations with captive women
21:15-17 Two wives, and right of the first born
22:13-19 Unjust charge against a bride
22:20-21 Penalty for whoredom (death by stoning)
22:22 Penalty for adultery (death)
22:23-24 Penalty for Rape of an engaged virgin in the city when she did not cry out for help (death to both)
22:25-27 Penalty for Rape of an engaged virgin in the field who cried out for help (death to the rapist only) the girl goes free, there was no one to save her.
22:28-29 Penalty for Rape of a virgin who is not engaged (the rapist pays her father fifty shekels of silver, she becomes his wife, his right to divorce is forever forfeited)
Deuteronomy
22:30 His father's former wife, or a woman who belongs to his father
23:1 A man wounded in the testicles or who has had his penis cut off shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
23:2 A Bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord nor his children for ten generations.
23:10-11 Unclean until sundown by reason of wet dream (requires bathing)
23:17 There shall be no
whore or prostitute of the daughters of
23:17 There shall be no
homosexual of the sons of
23:18 Do not bring the
WAGES OF A PROSTITUTE or the PRICE OF A DOG (MALE PROSTITUTE - A SODOMITE) into the house of the Lord your God as an
offering or a pledge. Both are an
abomination to the Lord your God.
24:1-4 Divorce and remarriage and return is abomination to God
24:5 First year of marriage
25:5-10 Duty of a husband's brother
Deuteronomy
27:20 Curse
for sex with Father's Wife
27:21 Curse for Bestiality (sexual contact with animals)
27:22 Curse for sexual contact with Sister or Half Sister
27:23 Curse for sexual contact with Mother In Law
Malachi
2:13-16 GOD HATES DIVORCE (it represents treachery toward your wife) God will not hear your prayers.
NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew
5:27-28 To look with lust is adultery
5:31-32 Divorce and remarriage to another is adultery (responsibility of the man)
15:18-20 Adultery and Fornication are defilements from the heart
19:3-12 Divorce is not God's will of one flesh, but it is man's weakness
22:23-33 There will be no marriage in the resurrection
24:36-39 Marriage and giving in marriage will continue until Jesus comes.
Mark
7:20-23 Adultery and Fornication are defilements from the heart
10:2-12 Divorce is not God's will of one flesh, but it is man's weakness
12:18-27 There will be no marriage in the resurrection
Luke
16:18 Divorce and marriage to another is adultery
20:27-36 There will be no marriage in the resurrection
John
4:1-42 Woman at the well had 5 husbands, the one she is now living with is not
her husband
8:1-1 Woman caught in the act of adultery (Jesus did not condemn her but called her to repentance)
Acts
15:1-21 Gentiles are commanded to abstain from the pollution of idolatry, from
Fornication, from what is strangled (meat
with blood in it), and from eating or drinking blood itself, by the council of
apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
15:22-29 The letter from the apostles and elders in Jerusalem commanded Gentiles to be under no other burden than to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from Fornication
21:25 James and the elders repeat the command decision that as for the Gentiles who believe they had written that the Gentiles should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from Fornication
Romans
1:18-32 Men refused to acknowledge God, so God gave them up to lusts of the
flesh and a reprobate mind (vile desires, and
homosexuality)
7:1-3 Marriage is binding until the death of one then she is free to marry again
13:8-14 Love is the fulfillment of the law. Because of love you shall not commit adultery, or kill, or steal, or covet, and if there is any other commandment it is summed up in this, that you shall love your neighbor as yourself
1 Corinthians
5:1-13 Paul's instruction for handling immorality in the church.
6:9-11 Do not be deceived, Fornicators,
Idolaters, Adulterers, Effeminate (Homosexuals), abusers of self with men
(Sodomites), thieves, covetous, drunkards,
revilers, and extortionists shall not inherit the
6:12-14 The body is not for Fornication, but for the Lord.
6:15-16 He that has sexual relations with a Harlot (prostitute) is one flesh with her (married) (this demonstrates man's responsibility in sexual activity)
6:17-19 Whoever commits Fornication, sins against his own body
7:1-5 The wife's body belongs to the husband, the husband's body belongs to the wife. They are each subject to the needs of the other sexually.
7:6-9 It is better to marry than to burn with lust
7:10-11 Do not let the Wife leave the husband, and do not let the Husband leave his wife
7:12-16 Let the unbeliever leave if there is no peace (no bondage in such a case)
7:17-24 Abide in the calling in which God has called you
7:25-38 To the virgins, remain virgin if you can to be free to serve God without hindrance. It is not a sin for you to marry.
7:39 A woman is bound to her husband while he lives, when he is dead, she is free to marry whoever she wants in the Lord.
7:40 Paul feels she will be happier if she remains single.
10:6-13 Let history be an example to us today to remain true to God and avoid Idolatry and Fornication
11:2-16 God's chain of command - God, Christ, Husband, Wife. Head covering when praying or prophesying for women not for men. Hair length, short for men, long for women. (angels are affected)
2 Corinthians 6:14 thru 7:1
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers
12:20-21 Paul expressed his fear that when he comes he will find many that have not repented of their uncleanness, Fornication, and sensuality
Galatians
5:19-21 The works of the flesh: Fornication, uncleanness, lechery, idolatry,
sorcery, enmity, strife, Jealousy, wrath, factions,
divisions, dissensions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, etc.
Ephesians
4:17-22 Do not follow the ways the Gentiles, who walk
in the vanity of their minds, and gave themselves up to lechery, and all works of uncleanness with greed.
5:3-7 Fornicators and whoremongers have no
inheritance in the
5:21 Be subject to each other in the fear of the Lord.
5:22-24 WIVES be subject to your husbands in all things.
5:25-33 HUSBANDS love your wives like Christ loves the church.
6:1-3 Children obey your parents in the Lord, because that is right.
6:4 Parents do not provoke your children to wrath, but nourish them, teaching them the counsel and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians
3:5-9 Put away the old tendencies to sin like; Fornication, impurity,
uncleanness, uncontrolled lust, evil illicit sexual desire, covetousness, which is idolatry. Also put away
such things as anger, wrath, malice (bad feelings toward others), slander, and
filthy language, lying etc.
3:18 Wives be subject to your husbands
3:19 Husbands love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.
3:20 Children obey your parents in all things
3:21 Parents do not provoke your children so that they do not become discouraged.
1 Thessalonians
4:1-12 This is the will of God for your sanctification, that you abstain from
Fornication, learn how to control your own body
as a vessel in sanctification and honor. Not in passion of lust.
Love one another to set an example to the non believers.
1 Timothy
2:8-15 MEN, pray lifting up holy hands, without wrath or quarreling.
WOMEN, be modest and sober, learn in quietness with submission. Continue in faith, love, and sanctification, with sobriety.
3:1-7 BISHOP, without reproach, husband of one wife, self controlled, attentive, orderly, hospitable, able to teach, not given to much wine, not violent, not greedy, patient, not quarrelsome, not covetous, one who rules his own house well and has his own children in subjection with all respect.
3:8-13 DEACON, sincere, not two faced, not given to much wine, not greedy, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
4:1-5 False teaching foretold for the end times:
5:1-16 Proper attitude toward Elders, Young Men, Elder Women, Younger Women, Widows, Single Mothers, Young Widows, and domestic relations.
5:17-22 ELDER, who labors in the word and in teaching, the laborer is worthy of his hire.
Hebrews
13:4 Let marriage be held in honor by all, and
let the marriage bed be undefiled, because fornicators and adulterers
will be judged by God.
1 Peter
2:11 Abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul.
3:1-6 WIVES, be in subjection to your own husband, let your adorning be that beauty of the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great value in the sight of God.
3:7 HUSBANDS, live with your wives in an intelligent considerate way. Treat them with respect, cherish them as the more fragile vessel, honor them as joint heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
4:1-6 The time that is past is sufficient to have done the works of the Gentiles (following the desires of the flesh), when we walked in lechery, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and abominable idolatry.
2 Peter
2:1-22 Warning against false teachers and destructive heresies in the end
times. They will receive their just reward.
Revelation
2:12-17 Problems in the church at Pergamos: They had some in the church who
held to the doctrine of Balaam, who taught
Balak to set a trap for Israel by enticing them to eat things sacrificed to
idols, and commit fornication, which was similar to the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans which they also embraced under the guise of Christianity.
2:18-29 Problems in the church at Thyatira: They allowed the woman Jezebel who called herself a prophetess, to teach and entice the people to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. She did not repent of her fornication.
9:20-21 They did not repent of their idolatry, murders, sorceries (magic of witchcraft), fornication, and theft.
14:8
17:1-18 Judgment of the Great Whore, BABYLON THE GREAT, MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH, who committed fornication with the kings of the earth, and made the world drunk with the wine of her fornication. She was drunk with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
18:1-24 Fall of Babylon the Great, who made all nations drunk with the wine of her fornication, and committed fornication with the kings of the earth.
21:8 Those who have
their part in the
22:15 Excluded from Glory are dogs, sorcerers, sexually immoral, murderers, idolaters, and all liars.
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