Ch. 1, Secular Culture and Sexuality vs. Christian Culture and Sexuality (As described in the text)
O – [Your Objective Description of the issue you have selected to critically examined]
While doing the reading, I was intrigued with the information provided on how cultures throughout the ages have experienced and interacted with human sexuality. The topic I chose for my ORIID is how other cultures and religions experience sexuality in comparison to Christian’s and Jews earlier on in the faith. While focusing on this topic, I also wanted to pay close attention to how the book and supplemental materials describes Christianity and their beliefs on sexuality while knowing and experiencing the Christian faith and the Bible myself, having a more …show more content…
These things provided me with a wider amount of knowledge on others interpretation of human sexuality and prompted me to take note of the differences I saw. The first difference being the portion based on Egyptians belief on sexuality, the book says that Egyptians were the ones who invented male circumcision and implemented it. This is something that up until this point, I believed was primarily used in the Christian/Jewish faith and invented by them as a means to be distinct from those around them who were not followers of God. Another culture that goes against the Biblical teaching of sexuality, is Greece, the text states that they endorsed homosexual behavior, and idolized male love. Next would be India, they viewed married as a means of economic gain and due to this began betrothing children at young ages. Islam, being overly conservative to a point where marriage, platonic relationships with others and the simple appearance of the female body has been so hidden and seen as bad, that, I believe they are going against what the Bible says. While the body is made by God and for God, he has not hindered friendships or required overly modest clothing for men or …show more content…
With that, it is up to each individual to decide whether or not they are going to follow the commands that God has set in place. Because I believe this, I can acknowledge others rights and abilities to hold their own opinions and practice them, while still disagreeing with them, which is what I do when it comes to others behaviors and beliefs of human sexuality.
D – [Your personal decision made in response to your examination of your selected issue]
After reading the text and trying to integrate that knowledge from a biblical perspective, I realized that although some cultures and religions have similar values and practices to those of Christianity, they are all flawed in some aspects, some of those being their belief on homosexual relationships, marrying for status or economic gain, divorce without much consideration or without valid reasons, changing ones’ character and appearance to appeal to others, and women being subjected to the desires of men with little to no voice. Cultures have different beliefs and practices and knowing some of the difference between them has provided me with valuable insight. The text explains the Christian and biblical perspective on human sexuality fairly well and mostly aligns with what some
O – [Your Objective Description of the issue you have selected to critically examined]
While doing the reading, I was intrigued with the information provided on how cultures throughout the ages have experienced and interacted with human sexuality. The topic I chose for my ORIID is how other cultures and religions experience sexuality in comparison to Christian’s and Jews earlier on in the faith. While focusing on this topic, I also wanted to pay close attention to how the book and supplemental materials describes Christianity and their beliefs on sexuality while knowing and experiencing the Christian faith and the Bible myself, having a more …show more content…
These things provided me with a wider amount of knowledge on others interpretation of human sexuality and prompted me to take note of the differences I saw. The first difference being the portion based on Egyptians belief on sexuality, the book says that Egyptians were the ones who invented male circumcision and implemented it. This is something that up until this point, I believed was primarily used in the Christian/Jewish faith and invented by them as a means to be distinct from those around them who were not followers of God. Another culture that goes against the Biblical teaching of sexuality, is Greece, the text states that they endorsed homosexual behavior, and idolized male love. Next would be India, they viewed married as a means of economic gain and due to this began betrothing children at young ages. Islam, being overly conservative to a point where marriage, platonic relationships with others and the simple appearance of the female body has been so hidden and seen as bad, that, I believe they are going against what the Bible says. While the body is made by God and for God, he has not hindered friendships or required overly modest clothing for men or …show more content…
With that, it is up to each individual to decide whether or not they are going to follow the commands that God has set in place. Because I believe this, I can acknowledge others rights and abilities to hold their own opinions and practice them, while still disagreeing with them, which is what I do when it comes to others behaviors and beliefs of human sexuality.
D – [Your personal decision made in response to your examination of your selected issue]
After reading the text and trying to integrate that knowledge from a biblical perspective, I realized that although some cultures and religions have similar values and practices to those of Christianity, they are all flawed in some aspects, some of those being their belief on homosexual relationships, marrying for status or economic gain, divorce without much consideration or without valid reasons, changing ones’ character and appearance to appeal to others, and women being subjected to the desires of men with little to no voice. Cultures have different beliefs and practices and knowing some of the difference between them has provided me with valuable insight. The text explains the Christian and biblical perspective on human sexuality fairly well and mostly aligns with what some