In Search of True Life

  Genesis 1 v 26 to 28: The image of GOD. The union between a man and a woman, united for life on the basis of love. "Then God says: Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and that he dominates over the fish of the sea, over the birds of heaven, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over all the reptiles that crawl on the earth. God created man in his image, he created him in the image of God, he created man and woman. God blesses them, and God said to them: Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subjugate it; and dominate over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and any animal that moves on the earth. » Ge 2 v 18 - 24: The Unity of the Couple: Spirit, Soul, and Body (see Philippians 2 v 2 to 5). "The Lord God says, "It is not good that man is alone; I will give him a similar help to him... This is why the man will leave his father and mother, and attach himself to his wife, and they will become one flesh. Help is the same word as in Psalm...

  When God creates something, He creates it with purpose and design . The Genesis account of creation makes it clear that God’s creation is “good” ( Genesis 1:31 ). But mankind has a history of distorting what God has made, whether out of ignorance or just plain stubbornness. The golden calf ( idol ) of the Israelites , for example. Gold is beautiful to look at, but God clearly did not want His people worshipping it. Sex (and yes, sex was God’s idea) is no different. God created it, and therefore it is reasonable to expect that it is good. But when man distorts it by ignoring God’s specific standards, it becomes harmful and destructive. So the question we’ve asked “why save sex for marriage” is really a question of understanding God’s purpose and design for sex. We can choose to do things God’s way, and experience the beauty of His plan, or we can choose to do things our way, and experience harm and destruction ( Proverbs 16:25 ). So, l...

    In earlier generations, this question was very seldom raised, simply because divorce was almost never encountered among Christians and was unusual even in the general population. Today, however, it has become a very real problem in evangelical Christian circles. Infidelity is no longer rare, even among Christian leaders, and one can hear almost weekly of some new pastoral “affair” and its traumatic effect on his church. With such examples in the leadership, it is bound to be even more common among the ordinary members, and the resulting decline in the stability of the Christian home today is surely one of the more alarming signs of the times. In the past, attempts to deal with this question on a Biblical basis have tended to be somewhat academic, probably because the very idea of divorce was so alien to the expositor's own experiences. Nowadays, however, since the tragedy of divorce has spread so widely that almost every C...