Sexual Morality and the World
I have often wondered why God forbids sexual immorality, and I have some thoughts on this.
In spiritual terms, In John 15:10 Jesus says, "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."
I think this only approximates what is meant. It is clear from what descriptions of heaven exist that many things we take for granted in this universe, entropy in particular, do not exist. For if entropy existed in heaven so would decay and death and we know that it does not. And without entropy there is no need for energy as it would not dissipate, so we don't need to eat, and thus the lion can lie down with the lamb and the lamb can be confident it won't be eaten.
And without entropy there is no flow of time, and this makes sense as God is timeless.
I believe the the creation story of the Bible is misinterpreted in a major way, because it sets us apart from God, I believe we and all of creation are part of God, God thought, and that is why if he ceases to remember us, we cease to exist.
This is why everything in a physical sense reduces to fields, nothing material, because fundamentally it is all God thought.
So when Jesus says he abides in the Father's love and so we can abide in his, I really think it goes to our very existence, we are only drops in the ocean of God, and we will some day return to that ocean and this is where the relationship to sexual immorality comes into play. Because when we enter another's body, we are trying to recreate physically what is natural spiritually but in a physical sense it is very shallow and incomplete and thus profanes the spiritual joining that we will experience, and also that from which we came.
But that is just a spiritual aspect, there is a practical physical aspect as well, dealing with our evolution. And I'm not one that believes evolution and creation are at odds, I believe religion tells us what God did, science tells us how God did it, although science is an approximation at best. What we know about evolution is that men who are good providers, particularly during the times when resources were more scarce than in modern times, were preferred by women because they gave their off-spring a better chance to survive. Thus today, rich men are preferred over poor, have more mating opportunities, and that drives some to such extremes that they would sacrifice everyone else for their own proliferation.
This I think is the physical danger of sexual immorality, the Bill Gates, the Klaus Schwabs, the Rockeller's of the world, this is what drives their greed and destructiveness. And because this is not the world God wants for us, it is evil.
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