The Argument:
I have many times wondered at the impossible reality of what God is when considering the basic sexual design of men and women and the nature, both mechanical and psychological, of intimacy. Is God some kind of transcendental voyeur or dirty film creator? At first glance it would seem so just because of how human sexuality works and the fact that He designed the whole thing!
After a more thorough examination of this argument however two very essential components seem to be of particular relevancy.
The Answer:
1) Harmony of Science and Religion:
Science and Religion cannot disagree unless one of them is in error. For the sake of this article, I go with the general notion that evolution is a well established deeply researched scientific law and also that the basic idea of creation - that at some point in the distant past none of this was here, and then it did come into being and begin evolving - is not at all in conflict with science. Hence the natural world God created so very, very long ago played a fundamental role in shaping how human sexuality works mechanically and psychologically, and therefore it is not the case that the elemental sexual nature of humanity just appeared out of nowhere 6,000 or 10,000 years ago but was rather in development for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years and subject to all the same environmental challenges and necessities that every other aspect of our evolution as a species has undergone.
2) The Ultimate Gift of Sentience and Free Will:
Since we are told that on a spiritual or transcendental level, if you will, that what so ever God states to be right or correct simply is automatically right and correct because the definition of reality comes from God who created and creates everything, not humanity which really cannot create anything, then it is right and correct for intimacy between man and woman to take place and also essential for the survival of humanity because without the function of intimacy there will not be any one around to replace all those who die. As conscious beings we can comprehend this because we are endowed with reason and understanding.
Furthermore, as the pinnacle of creation on earth humanity is given conscious access to all the same tools or forces necessary for creation and evolution to continue. Far from being a lofty status to savor, this a profoundly scary level to be at because it means we are responsible for everything and we can also ruin the entire planet if we are careless. So, within the context of human sexuality we experience the full force of all the same lust and passions of any animal, are fully conscious of it and also are given an exact framework within which, if we focus our lust and passion, we remain on the side of what God says is right and correct - that framework is Marriage and the monogamy it implicitly entails. This is an imperative because the only way under the definitions God has given through His Revelation that the forces of human sexual relations and intimacy - which God created - can exist and not be in eternal direct conflict, both metaphysically and in reality, with His commands to control carnal desires and disallow lust and passion to occur between any unmarried people is if a structure, opted into by free choice, gets placed over human sexuality which lets humans completely access and engage in complete human sexuality, lust and passion, and not at the same time be in violation of God's law.
The human sex drive and human sexual relations and intimacy were created by God but they do not stand outside of God's law nor did God create some glaringly impossible to manage stand-off between constant sin due to lust and desire and the opposite which is a sterile, un-affectionate condition of an eternal chastity which if carried out causes psychological problems and profound unhappiness. The full range of human sexuality, lust and passion are supposed to be engaged by us only done so within a marriage which solves both the problem of an eternal impossible choice between lust and abstinence as well as the problem of God appearing to be cruel by creating forces that haunt and plague humanity for no good reason.
Conclusion:
The harmonizing force between the powerful sexual forces of nature and the conscious awareness of humanity that brings both understanding and responsibility for actions taken to bear on human intimacy is the institution of marriage between man and woman. By way of the Divine Law stating that marriage is the right thing for a man and woman to unite in, all the other sexual forces of the natural world that both men and women bring and which God also created can go directly into the marriage and be Sanctified all at the same time.
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