Sexuality in Bible

By Dr. Adel Halim

God has created man as a sexual being in order to insert love into the human life so man can be able to get out of the solitude and to get rid of selfishness through opening up to the others and forming a family in which all the purpose of love, unity, sharing, and giving are manifested.

Through this book, were going to follow sexuality since the beginning of creation, then how it was changed and disfigured after the Fall, and how it has been redeemed and renewed through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and how we can nowadays live our sexuality as a part of our whole human practical Christian life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jul 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514461303

Dr. Adel Halim

Dr. Adel Halim has been working as a marriage and family counselor for more than twenty years now after he was graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA. He is always internationally invited to give lectures about family issues in Christian youth and family conventions in USA and Europe. He is a research worker and an author of six books series (more than thirty-five books written and published till now): teenagers’ book series, youth book series, sex education book series, marriage education book series, and preparation for marriage book series. He is a member of the Family Sector of the Middle East Council of Churches and a coordinator of the Family Life Education of the Bishopric of Youth in Egypt and a member of Egyptian Writers' Union.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Sexuality: fundamental issues

•   Dimensions of human sexuality

•   Sexual vs. Genital:

•   Love vs. Sex:

Chapter 2 Sexuality As God Wills It

1 Genuine Sexuality

•   Individual versus Man:

•   Sexuality and Completeness:

•   Sexuality and isolation:

•   The We fellowship:

2 God’s Purpose for Human Sexuality

•   Is sexuality similar in man and animal?

•   Is sexual intercourse the same in man and animal?

•   Is there any difference between food taste pleasure and sexual pleasure?

3 Sexuality in Man and Angel

Chapter 3 Sexuality Before The Fall

1 Characteristics of Man before the Fall

2 Characteristics of Sexuality Before the Fall

•   Comparability:

•   Completeness:

•   True Love:

•   Pure Sexual Inclination:

•   Union and Oneness:

Chapter 4 Sexuality Distorted

1 The Concept of Man’s Fall

2 Characteristics of Man After The Fall

3 Characteristics of Sexuality After the Fall

•   Deterioration of man – woman relationship:

•   Distorted sexual inclination (Sexual Lust):

•   Changed attitude to the body after the Fall:

•   Changed meaning of Pregnancy and birth:

Chapter 5 Sexuality Redeemed and Renewed

1 The Concept of the Redemption

2 Characteristics of the Believer After Redemption

3 Characteristics of Sexuality after the Redemption

•   Sanctification of the believer’s sexual tendencies and motives:

•   Restoration of the original purpose of sexuality in the believer’s life:

•   Restoration of the original relationship between man and woman:

•   Restoration of a healthy attitude to human body:

Chapter 6 Sexuality In Everyday Life

Sexual Hardships

Chapter 7 Patterns of Marriage

•   Patterns of Marriages

1 Genuine Human Marriage

•   The Faculties that Made Man Eligible for Marriage:

•   The Purpose of Marriage as God Conceived it:

•   Characteristics of the Original Marriage

2 Social Marriage

3 Subhuman Marriage

•   Why This Type of Marriage is Considered Subhuman?

4 Christian Marriage

•   How Marriage Was Restored to its Lost Beauty?

•   What Redemption Gave Marriage:

•   The Relationship between the Different Patterns of Marriage:

Sexuality in Bible

SEX IS A HOLISTIC energy that correlates with the whole human being at all levels including mental, emotional, behavioral and physical levels. So this sexual energy plays a vital role all through the person’s life beginning from childhood till old age.

Therefore, since the beginning of creation man has given much consideration to sexuality as an important part of his / her life, and through the different decades man’s interest in sexuality differed according to the cultures, religions and philosophies that prevailed in each era of history and that influenced human thinking and behaviors about sexuality. Therefore different ideas about sexuality and its role in human life had come out in such a way that sex has become controversial.

God has created man as a sexual being in order to insert love into the human life, so man can be able to get out of the solitude and to get rid of selfishness through opening up to the others and forming a family in which all the purpose of love, unity, sharing and giving are manifested. That was not possible without God’s presence in the human life so as love and unity among people become a refection of the love and unity within the Trinity. But no sooner did man refuse, with all his free will, to live with God and to obey Him, than he lost the true communication with God in such a way that ego, instead of God, became the center of man’s life in such a way that his / her mind, emotions and attitudes became inclined towards him / herself in a trial to satisfy his endless selfish needs. As long as man became egocentric his / her sexuality became deviated from love toward selfishness, that’s from giving to and sharing with the other to using and consuming the other, and instead of looking at the other as a valuable person he started to deal with him / her as an object, or as a physical entity.

Since the sexual energy is closely related to the entire personality of the individual, so it is expected that the time that energy deviates away from its genuine goal the whole man’s aspects of life will be negatively affected. So when sexuality is devoid of love it is disfigured and directed more to gratification of lusts and selfish desires. Consequently the human body, instead of being a helping factor in making the love unity between man and woman, it turned out to be a mere source of pleasure that became a target in itself to be sought eagerly.

Through this book we’re going to follow together sexuality since the beginning of creation, then how it was changed and disfigured after the Fall, and how it has been redeemed and renewed through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and how we can nowadays live our sexuality as a part of our whole human practical Christian life.

Dr. Adel Halim

CHAPTER 1

Sexuality: fundamental issues

Dimensions of human sexuality

HUMAN SEXUALITY IS A divine gift which pervades the inner core of man and affects his / her life at all levels. It affects not only one aspect of our life, but also it is part and parcel of our human nature and it leaves its imprint on the existence and personality of the whole individual. It shapes our emotional and psychological lives, our social relations, as well as our spiritual life including our relation-ship with God. As a matter of fact, sexuality is both a comprehensive and pervasive energy.

There are at least three principal dimensions to human sexuality:

1. The Personal Dimension:

This comprises the personal interaction between the two genders resulting from mutual affinity and rational choice, an interaction that expresses itself through the medium of human emotions (feelings), leading to the development of