I know some muddleheaded Christians have talked as if Christianity thought that sex, or the body, or pleasure, were bad in themselves. But they were wrong. Christianity is almost the only one of the great religions which thoroughly approves of the body—which believes that matter is good, that God Himself once took on a human body, that some kind of body is going to be given to us even in Heaven and is going to be an essential part of our happiness, or beauty and our energy. Christianity has glorified marriage more than any other religion: and nearly all the greatest love poetry in the world has been produced by Christians. If anyone says that sex, in itself, is bad, Christianity contradicts him at once.
Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity
God designed human beings as sexual beings, male and female, for our good and for His glory. Our society is actively rejecting His standards. We are made in His image:
- to love our fellow image-bearers Biblically,
- to be “salt and light”
- to serve Him “in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation”
Teach the Children
- God designed human beings to be male/female, Imago Dei, in His image.
- He made them for each other, and He declared His creation at that point to be very good.
- He designed us to find our identity in Him.
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV