Friday, July 30, 2010

Sex

I want to discuss about what happened not so recently in my country Indonesia; The release of Ariel-Luna-Cut Tari video.

The news was so blown out of proportions that all three person got social judgment and still waiting on the decision of the law. People said that they are breaking the Anti Pornographic law and should be sentence to the fullest extent of law.

The saddest part is that the police or the prosecutors still don't know which part of the law they are breaking. They are making something up for the sake of keeping them in jail and satisfying some groups of fundamentalists.

In my humble (or stupid?) opinion; They are not breaking any laws. They did it with their own consent. Granted that making the video was kind of stupid but the authority should be pursuing the one or ones that distributing the video. The video was meant to be private collection.

By saying that, I need to correct my own point of view. "They are not breaking any laws."
Of course they do. They, at least, breaking God's law.
Sexual intercourse should be enjoy with spouse only.
Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you."
We need to know that our desire for sex is can only be driven toward our spouse, hence, all pornographic materials are not to be consumed.

We are going to see some examples of sex being abused even from ancient time. The bible recorded several occasions.

This is the most vulgar example of sex already being abused. Lot, Abraham's nephew, lived in the city of Sodom. The city was
so evil in its way so that God sent 2 angels to warned Lot and then destroy city.

Genesis 19:1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening. Lot was sitting at the city gate. He saw them and got up to welcome them, bowing before them
2 and said, "Please, my friends, come to my house and stay the night. Wash up. You can rise early and be on your way refreshed." They said, "No, we’ll sleep in the street."
3 But he insisted, wouldn’t take no for an answer; and they relented and went home with him. Lot fixed a hot meal for them and they ate.
4 Before they went to bed men from all over the city of Sodom, young and old, descended on the house from all sides and boxed them in.
5 They yelled to Lot, "Where are the men who are staying with you for the night? Bring them out so we can have our sport with them!"
6 Lot went out, barring the door behind him,
7 and said, "Brothers, please, don’t be vile!
8 Look, I have two daughters, virgins; let me bring them out; you can take your pleasure with them, but don’t touch these men—they’re my guests."
9 They said, "Get lost! You drop in from nowhere and now you’re going to tell us how to run our lives. We’ll treat you worse than them!" And they charged past Lot to break down the door.


Scary, right? Men wanted the 2 angels, in appearance of 2 men, and to have sex with them.
And what was more scarier? Lot offered his 2 virgin daughters in order to save his guests.
and know what? People refused and insisted on having the guests.

The scary movie continued with Lot being able to escape God's wrath to Sodom and Gomorrah with his 2 daughters but lost his wife. They were able to reach Zoar. Lot left Zoar and went into the mountains to live with his two daughters; he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his daughters.

One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is getting old and there’s not a man left in the country by whom we can get pregnant.
Let’s get our father drunk with wine and lie with him. We’ll get children through our father—it’s our only chance to keep our family alive."
They got their father drunk with wine that very night. The older daughter went and lay with him. He was oblivious, knowing nothing of what she did.
The next morning the older said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Tonight, it’s your turn. We’ll get him drunk again and then you sleep with him. We’ll both get a child through our father and keep our family alive."

So that night they got their father drunk again and the younger went in and slept with him. Again he was oblivious, knowing nothing of what she did.
Both daughters became pregnant by their father, Lot.
The older daughter had a son and named him Moab, the ancestor of the present-day Moabites.
The younger daughter had a son and named him Ben-Ammi, the ancestor of the present-day Ammonites. (Gen 19:30-38).

Talking about everything that went wrong! Daughters that were willingly even initiated incest with their father??
This gives me the creep.

Another example is when Paul visited Rome!
Rome 1:25 And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!
26 Worse followed. Refusing to know God, they soon didn’t know how to be human either—women didn’t know how to be women, men didn’t know how to be men.
27 Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love. And then they paid for it, oh, how they paid for it—emptied of God and love, godless and loveless wretches.
28 Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose.


See that? Another example of people abusing sex. God forbids homosexuality and any other forms of sexual abuse.
Check Leviticus 18:10-20, 22-23. The whole thing about incest, homosexuality and even sex with animals are mentioned there. THEY ALL ARE FORBIDDEN!!!

I am a married man and hopefully be given children. I pray that I can raise them in revere of God.
And of course, I be given the wisdom from God that I can choose my living environment so conducive for revering God lest I be like Lot in choosing poorly where I raise my children.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: "Evil company corrupts good habits."

And for me, pray that I can be like Job : "I made a solemn pact with myself never to undress a girl with my eyes."(
Job 31:1).


Bible verses are from Message and NKJV.

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