Isn’t it crazy how God’s design is actually GOOD for us?!
We may think that Christianity just has rules that want to keep us from having fun, but in reality, we have a God who wants to keep us from unnecessary pain and harm! And praise the Lord for that!
When God’s design includes certain things or doesn’t include certain things, it’s for our GOOD.
Science proves this! Read research studies, articles, or the CDC’s website and you’ll hear some of the same things that the Bible says (like a lifelong mutual monogamous relationship being the safest one for sexual activity). That’s because the harm that comes to us that science tries to study is the harm that God tried to keep us from in the first place!
STD's
If God’s design for sex was always followed, sexually transmitted diseases would not exist. STD’s occur because people have multiple sexual partners (which is also how they end up spreading like wild fire). Science and medicine prove that STD’s are a big deal and the CDC even recommends mutual monogamy or celibacy to prevent them (hello, that is God’s design for marriage and sex!).
Pregnancy
Unplanned and unwanted pregnancy is very prevalent in our culture. Why? Because God’s design for sex isn’t followed, and sex is occurring outside of a marriage union so often. Pregnancy can be unplanned and occur in a marriage, but there is stability, support, and love in the relationship and generally there is an understanding that pregnancy could occur. So, if a pregnancy occurs through marital sex, it is received as a gift even if unplanned. It’s also less concerning because there is no fear of single parenting if God’s design for marriage is followed.
Emotions
God’s design for sex is for it to occur within marriage. Marriage is a covenantal commitment between two people in which each person is committing to the whole of the other person (their good physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually). Marriage, then, is the safest place for such a vulnerable and intimate act because according to God’s design, there is no risk of the a spouse leaving or taking advantage of the other spouse.
Abuse
Marriage was created by God, not humans. The way God designed it to work is often not how we see it played out in life around us. However, if God’s design was actually followed, there would be no fear of abuse or rape (even marital rape). How so? Well, when it comes to loving our spouses, this means striving for the good of the other person in every realm of their being: physical, sexual, emotional, etc. forever (because marriage is a forever thing). Thus, only the things that benefit and are for the good of the spouse in those areas of their lives would be occurring!
God's design is ultimate. We wouldn't even be on this earth without His design! So to think that science and research and the findings there align with God's design, only makes sense! Think about how much science has shown that the events recorded in Scripture truly did happen! It all goes together because it's all true. The design that God lays out in Scripture for our bodies and sexuality is no different -- science aligns with that too!
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