If you add that to the fact that a lot of folks struggle with their body image…it's no wonder that many husbands and wives are biblically disobedient. Personally, that's why I also think a lot of people who grew up in the Church struggle with the very clear instruction that is found in Genesis 2 they feel naked and ashamed because the Church has a tendency to focus more on sexual sin than the beauty of the gift of sex for married people. Quite frankly, I think that is a big problem with Bible followers and how they process the topic of sex they see it through the eyes of being sensual rather than being erotic-"arousing or satisfying sexual desire" and "sexual love". Sensual speaks of being carnal, fleshly and having a "lack moral restraints".
There's a reason why I chose to go with the word "erotic" over something that might seem more subdued like, perhaps, sensual in the title of this piece. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not embarrassed or ashamed in each other’s presence.”-Genesis 2:24-25 (AMPC)
Bible Verses About Intimacy In Marriageġ. “Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. If you'd like a few extra Scriptures to support why I emphatically say that, I've got five for you to ponder. Yet once you did come to some common sexual ground, your sex life really should be on and poppin' on a regular and consistent basis. This biblical instruction is not something that any one person can decide on their own both parties have to come to a mutual decision on what those acts are. So y'all, if you are married, it's important to always keep in mind that, when it comes to whatever you and your partner decide to do, it needs to be something that won't contaminate (harm) your relationship. It means that the marriage bed is pure and pure means "free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind". It doesn't mean that just because two people are married that they can just do… whatever. It's important that undefiled is taken into context. It says, " Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God will judge." There are layers to all of this, so let's just focus on what comes before the semicolon for now even then, one word that is in it: undefiled.
Period.Īs far as the Scriptural basis for marital sex, probably the automatic go-to verse is Hebrews 13:4 (NKJV). And, when it comes to the Word, if there is a recurring point and theme, it's that husbands and wives should be having lots and lots of sex.
I get so tired of so many religious folks acting like sex is something that shouldn't be discussed when one, we are sexual beings (our sexuality is a part of our spirituality) and two, the Bible has plenty to say on the topic. He once said, "To hear many religious people talk, one would think that God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals." Whew and I'm sayin'. I can't remember the first time that I heard this particular quote by a man named Don Schrader but, ever since I did, it has been something that I have brought up to church folks (especially the super churchy ones) whenever the topic of sex comes up.