What You Think About Sex Begins with What You Believe About God
Anybody reading this blog post could come up with several names of friends and loved ones with whom there are serious disagreements about sexual ethics. What Dr. Juli Slattery so insightfully points out (this is part two of a series on her excellent book Rethinking Sexuality) is that such disagreements, even among Christians, are primarily rooted in different beliefs about God’s character and the authority of Scripture. “The sexual confusion we see in our culture is rooted in spiritual confusion.”
I thought of this when reading a news report about a state lawmaker, angered about proposed legislation prohibiting schools from sponsoring or promoting drag queen story hours, who offered alternate legislation that would forbid taking children to Vacation Bible School, a.k.a. “religious indoctrination.”
In Juli’s mind, one of the primary challenges for people today isn’t disagreement as much as it is idolatry, the “God plus something” problem. “While we may worship God, we worship something else right along with God.” As soon as we enter the equation, “I need God plus something” we are on perilous ground indeed.
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