One of the most popular Christian blogs is currently Tim Challies‘.
When I grow up, I’d like to be able to write like he does: as of 8/29/2010, he has blogged for 2,494 consecutive days!
The other day he had a post called “Prudes and Puritans.” He included an excerpt out of the book Saving Leonardo, by Nancy Pearcey.
The portion of the quote I liked best was:
Liberalism treats sex as instrumental to extrinisic goals, such as physical pleasure or expressing affection. That’s why liberals do not object to any form of sexual relation as long as it meets those extrinisic goals—as long as it involves mutual pleasure or affection. By contrast, a biblical worldview treats sex as intrinsically good in constituting the one-flesh relationship. Humans are an image of God not only as individuals but also in their relationship with one another—and most intensely in the intimate sexual-emotional-spiritual unity of marriage.
This explains why marriage is used throughout Scripture as a metaphor for the intimate relationship God aspires to have with his people. In the Old Testament, Israel is the unfaithful wife. In the New Testament, the church is the bride of Christ. The marital metaphor means that our sexual nature possesses a “language” that is ultimately meant to proclaim God’s own transcendent love and faithfulness.
This gets to the heart of the matter over homosexual marriage and the lunacy around the opposition to Proposition 8 here in California.
You can read the entire post by clicking here.
May He Increase!
When I grow up, I’d like to be able to write like he does: as of 8/29/2010, he has blogged for 2,494 consecutive days!
It must be stressed that there is no necessary correlation between quantity and quality!
Tim!
Honored by your visit. Welcome to my humble home on the web!
In Christ,
Joe