Satan works in the dark and God works in the light. "5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." [(1 JOHN 1:5 scripture from King James bible)]
• Hyper-focused on pornography and how it impacts marriage.
With the advent of the Internet pornography is so much easier for people of all ages to access anytime they want. In the past when someone wanted to see pornography they needed to go to store and buy a magazine, buy or rent a video, or go to a special club that offered pornography. Churches easily focus on pornography, but what about addressing the denial of one another the sex (sin of refusal) [(1 Corinthians 7:5 scripture from King James bible)] 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.) which many times comes before …show more content…
Natural law, in its broad sense, refers to moral norms that are (1) universal, spanning differences of time and place, (2) objective, in that they are not created by social convention but given in the nature of things, and (3) reasonable, in that reason grasps basic moral norms and discerns the purposes, ends, or goods of things given in nature. Reason directs and guides human action in accordance with these purposes."Is Procreation the Primary Purpose of Sex? Is Procreation the Primary Purpose of Sex? by Douglas J. Schuurman Professor of Religion St. Olaf College"(p. 1) This view of sex for procreation is changing and because of this sexuality must be discussed in the church. The views of society are more like the following: " In our sex-saturated, individualistic culture, sex is good if it feels good. If two consenting adults agree to it and no obvious harm is done by it, sex is fine." (Schuurman, p. 3) Congregations had been operating under false theology that sexual pleasure is wrong. It is
• Hyper-focused on pornography and how it impacts marriage.
With the advent of the Internet pornography is so much easier for people of all ages to access anytime they want. In the past when someone wanted to see pornography they needed to go to store and buy a magazine, buy or rent a video, or go to a special club that offered pornography. Churches easily focus on pornography, but what about addressing the denial of one another the sex (sin of refusal) [(1 Corinthians 7:5 scripture from King James bible)] 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.) which many times comes before …show more content…
Natural law, in its broad sense, refers to moral norms that are (1) universal, spanning differences of time and place, (2) objective, in that they are not created by social convention but given in the nature of things, and (3) reasonable, in that reason grasps basic moral norms and discerns the purposes, ends, or goods of things given in nature. Reason directs and guides human action in accordance with these purposes."Is Procreation the Primary Purpose of Sex? Is Procreation the Primary Purpose of Sex? by Douglas J. Schuurman Professor of Religion St. Olaf College"(p. 1) This view of sex for procreation is changing and because of this sexuality must be discussed in the church. The views of society are more like the following: " In our sex-saturated, individualistic culture, sex is good if it feels good. If two consenting adults agree to it and no obvious harm is done by it, sex is fine." (Schuurman, p. 3) Congregations had been operating under false theology that sexual pleasure is wrong. It is