Theology and Sex

Eliphas Mukhim 

6^th September 2014

 notes taken from my thesis

       When we hear the word “theology” our minds first turn on to the meaning of the word rather than to rationalize it, the generalist or the common people define the word “theology” means “the study about God”, the theological seminary student search for the Hebrew and Greek word to define the term “theology”, historians look for the history to define the word “theology” and the contextualized gives its meaning of ‘theology” as in the context, the culturalist understands “theology” based on the culture.

                      The word “theology” has been explained in thousands of books by many different authors and understanding. But let us expound the word “theology” as a core of our life that we live every day. Theology is everything, all the ideas that had been defined I’m not saying it is wrong, all are really good and helpful for our understanding about God, but let me go further a bit, when we study theology we begin our theology with God why? Why not begin with Sin, salvation or the other things…?. But God wants us to understand theology in a very simple way, which the scriptures tell us about theology in creating man and woman as a sexual being in God’s image (Gen:1:26-27). God created MAN, male and female with the pleasure of sex, and the sexuality that God has created is the plan of God to save the whole world that God needed to be born as a man to redeem human being from sin. That is why the Apostle Paul writes in his letters to the Ephesians, the unique union and communion between husband and wife is representative of the mystery of the union between Christ and the Church (Eph:5:22-32). Theology and sex play together in the Christian life. Sex is not a weird subject to relate with theology. Theology has so much to say about sex, sex and theology goes hands in hands, theology define the way of life and principles of acting, but sex unites (husband and wife) the acting plan of God to save the world. The theology called the act of sexes or the uniting of sexes (male and female) as “one flesh” no more two (Gen: 2:24). Sex education need to emphasize that sex and theology is connected to each other. In this way I would love to say that when we study theology we need to view sex as one of the main subject to be included in our understanding about God and His redemptive plan in Christ Jesus. Here are some of the dimensions of sex education that we need to understand on how theology and sex is connected each other.

    (a) God ordained sex:

 Sexual intercourse between male and female is often said to be doing what come naturally. In one sense it is correct. The act of mating requires only two bodies, two sexes, two sets of genitals. It can be a passionate moment, a merely chance of encounter or the fulfillment of the biological urge. But God made sexual relationship as something totally different. As I have said above that theology and sex are connected we cannot separate them from each other. Sex was ordained by God. He designed it for our bodies to give and receive pleasure with each other. He ordained it in His mind before creating the world as a greatest gift for human being to enjoy with the purpose of saving human kind (Gen:3:14-15; 1Tim:2:15).

   (b) God separated sex:

      The word separated in Hebrew is “qadosh” and in Greek “hagious” which is means separated, holy, totally different from the other or set apart. God made sex holy and pronounce it good after He created man and woman as a sexual being. God intentionally made or set apart sex for the two individual human beings to give pleasure and enjoy within the bond of marriage. God separated sex and He hates sexual sin, or any kind of distort of what He had created and called as holy (Gen: 1:25-31) which God himself pronounce GOOD, twice in this chapter after He creates especially in verse thirty one (v-31) God put more weight after He created MAN (male and female) consider very Good than after creating the others things before Human in verse twenty-five (v-25) when the word GOOD appeared it means GOOD in everything when is GOOD in everything then automatically in God’s eyes it mean HOLY.

   (c) God united sex:

               God called the united act of the two sexual human being male and female as “one flesh” which the Bible tells us from the first marriage in the Garden of Eden. So the two are no longer two but one. God sees sex as one of the intimate time that a husband and wife could find themselves in creating a perfect understanding of their humanness and relationship, and He also means this uniting business to glorify and honor Him alone. God purposefully made sex as heterosexual to humankind, so that they could honor Him when every time that a husband and wife have sex, and thank God for this wonderful gift to them by being uniting two as one, male and female in the married life.

  (d) Sex is God’s plan:

         I would say that before time God had already conceived sex from eternity, He wisely planned sex for human being and purposefully made it perfect. He made sex for both animals and human being, but he made human sexuality special and higher than the animals or the other creatures. He provides principles, guidelines, boundaries, morality ethically and socially and the most of all God didn't work out on Adam and Eve though He stuck His plan for man and a woman, and their sexual relationship, despite the fall, but still God even used human marriage or human sexuality the proper sex as the vehicle for redeeming the fallen humanity from the power of sin centuries before our Savior Lord Jesus came  who was born from a virgin woman name Mary with Miraculously made it happened for Mary to conceived Him for us without human effort or natural sexual intercourse but through the power of Holy Spirit and he was born as human conceived approximately nine months in the womb of Mary then exist on earth like us in the same way as we all came to exist here on earth through our God’s specific chosen Parents for us  to be born  but HIM only a virgin Mary is needed to be born not a sexual intercourse to intervene but God alone using Mary genital to give birth for HIM who is our Lord God and Savior. So Sex is God Planned and theologically sex is connected to God but sex is not God.