From: richard@biblewheel.com
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 19:36:26 EDT
Hi Rich, in post http://www.calvin.edu/archive/asa/200307/0526.html you
said:
>Sex is only sanctified when its direct aim is procreation, which means sex
is never an end in itself.
How do you support this assertion? My mind immediately leaps to the Song of
Songs and its celebration of physical love (which I understand as a TYPE of
union with God, cf. Ephesians 5.32), with no mention of procreation that I
am aware of.
Granted, the Bible presents fertility as a blessing of God, but where does
it even suggest that sex is only sanctified "when its direct aim is
procreation?" Going back to the origin of sex in Genesis 2 we read:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto
his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Procreation is prominent here only because of its *absence* - unless you
want the "one flesh" to mean the child that results from the union, but that
can't be correct because the Bible says that the two become "one flesh"
after sex, whether or not a child is produced (cf. 1 Cor 6.16).
Richard Amiel McGough
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