Category Archives : Biblical Theology and Ethics of Sex (Rayburn)

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Let me begin by reviewing the ground we have covered in this class. It was a class, we said about sex, in the sense of sexual desire and practice, with its attendant sins, tribulations, satisfactions, and fulfillments.

We began with a justifica…

We have so far considered the sexual life in its erotic and romantic dimensions, as an important aspect of the love of man and woman. But, of course, there is another side to sex, in some respects, even more fundamental. It is the means of procreatio…

Last time we looked in some detail at the Song of Songs and argued that when matters of genre and structure are taken into account the Song is seen to be a poem about the powerful passionate attraction of love, love in its romantic and erotic dimensi…

BIBLICAL THEOLOGY AND ETHICS OF SEX No. 7, 8/26/07 “The Celebration of Marital Eroticism in Song of Songs” (Part 1)
I was very grateful to Prof. Jack Collins for being willing to give you a lecture on the Song of Songs the first Lord’s Day I was…

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We spoke last time from Proverbs 5 of the “wisdom” required to maintain sexual purity as an adolescent and unmarried young adult. The wise father instructed his son to remember the power and prevalence of sexual temptation, the destructive consequenc…

We mentioned last time that one brutal consequence of the Fall, and one highlighted in the Genesis narrative itself, is that the sexual life of mankind – intended to be an instrument of love and fruitfulness – became a source of shame. Sins of every …

We left the man and woman, naked and unashamed, delighting in one another, the man worshipping his wife, bathing her heart in words of praise and celebration. A man has the power to leave his wife much of the time walking six inches off the ground if…

We spent our time last week on Genesis 2:18 and its statement that God made woman a helper suitable or corresponding to the man. That is, we said, men and women, equally bearers of the divine image, are nevertheless different from one another, diff…

We began our examination of the biblical material on the sexual life of mankind last time at Genesis 1:26-27 with the summary statement of God’s creation of man as male and female. We suggested that there were three fundamental facts about human life…

I have changed the title of the class from “A Biblical Theology of Sex” to “The Biblical Theology and Ethics of Sex.” The first title would cover the ground well enough – in its larger sense “theology” includes ethics – but I wanted to emphasize the …