NaijaNewsPapers:


4. Jesus had very little to say about sex.
Other than a some heavy admonishments against lust and against divorce, the Jesus of the Bible didn’t have a lot to say about issues of sexuality. (My guess is that he was too busy hanging out with the poor and healing the sick to care. Just a guess).
He also had nothing at all to say about homosexuality or sexual identity as we understand it today.

Most of the instruction about sex comes from Christian leaders who started spreading the religion after Jesus’ death.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/08/4-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html

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please do research he with both(rich/poor according to you) even at age 12 he was dicussing with elites

DonaldYusuf:

If you read your Bible you will stop Wondering. It's not your Pastor that speaks against sex before marriage; it's in the Bible. And the Bible talks about the bed being undefiled in regards to marriage. That is clear enough from the Bible.

that's true o. Lol. I'm speaking from a rather liberal point of view.

NaijaNewsPapers:


Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that the gospel was one, complete, and indestructible whole — particularly as it applied to human sexuality. But it’s not that simple.


The idea that is still taught in some churches today is that the Christian sexual ethic came to earth fully formed, straight from heaven, about 2,000 years ago. Throughout all that time, there was exactly one way for Christians to express their sexuality — by staying abstinent until they got married to a person of the opposite gender. And then, you could have at it all you wanted.


But what I wasn’t taught in Sunday School is that the Bible’s teachings on sex have been interpreted in many different ways. I didn’t know that the early Christians actually started practicing celibacy because they were convinced the end of the world was near. No one told me that marriage wasn’t always defined and controlled by the church. And that even within marriage, sex wasn’t always something that Christians were taught to enjoy and cherish.


And the truth is that the standards on what it means to be a sexual person and live a Christian life have changed.

Here are 4 facts to prove it.

1. For the first 1,000 years of Christianity (that’s at least HALF of its existence, people), many Christians wouldn’t have considered getting married in a church.


Marriages in the West were originally just economic alliances made between two families, with both the church and the state staying out of the proceedings. This meant that weddings didn’t require the presence of a priest.


The church got involved in regulating marriage much later on, as its influence began to increase in Western Europe. It wasn’t until 1215 that the Church formally put a claim on marriage and hashed out rules about what made children legitimate.


2. To be a truly devoted Christian during the earliest days of the church, you needed to stop having sex altogether.


Early Christians’ belief that Jesus’ second coming was imminent created an environment that exalted celibacy over marriage. It was a radical departure from Jewish teachings that the disciples would have been familiar with. But it makes sense — what was the point of getting tied up with worldly responsibilities, like taking care of a spouse, children and a household, when the end of the world was near?


St. Paul, a celibate Christian leader who wrote most of the New Testament, thought of practicing celibacy as taking the higher road towards God, since it allows Christians to concentrate wholly on things of the spirit.

The second coming didn’t happen, but the emphasis on celibacy stayed. Couples in the second century were expected to stop having sex altogether after producing several children.


3. The Church developed some rules about sex that would seem strange.

In medieval times, the church became deeply involved with controlling people’s sex lives. Virginity and monogamy were still prized, while homosexuality could be punished by death. The church also had very specific requirements for what type of sex married couples could have. Since all sex was supposed to be for the purposes of procreation, certain positions were banned (no sex standing up, the woman shouldn’t be on top, no doggy style, oral, anal, or masturbation). And then there were restrictions on what days of the week people could have sex (not on fast days, or feast days for a saint, or on Sundays, for example).

Sex was also discouraged when a woman was menstruating, pregnant, or breastfeeding, (which considering there was no birth control, could have been a good deal of the time). All of these prohibitions meant that on average, sex between married couples was only legal about once per week, if that.

4. Jesus had very little to say about sex.
Other than a some heavy admonishments against lust and against divorce, the Jesus of the Bible didn’t have a lot to say about issues of sexuality. (My guess is that he was too busy hanging out with the poor and healing the sick to care. Just a guess). He also had nothing at all to say about homosexuality or sexual identity as we understand it today.

Most of the instruction about sex comes from Christian leaders who started spreading the religion after Jesus’ death.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/08/4-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html

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We try to recreate the world to our own taste and pattern. God created them all, man and woman. The Bible refer to Him as the Alpha and Omega. He knows what a quiet time between a woman and a man leads to and He still created them Male and Female.
Procreation was not the only reason why God created Eve for Adam.
He said "it is not good for a man to be alone"
Translate the above anyway you wish but Sex was always on the menu.
Scrolls written and lost but discovered recently points to sex as the moment when "Man sees God" (You need to climax or cum to understand this)
Don't demonize sex like God is going to kill you.
Sodom and Gomorrah was burnt cuz their idea of life was changing from the script of God.
Selling sex (Prostitution) same sex marriage and the likes were perversion God wanted out of the way.
I've never felt bad for expressing my feelings to my GF in the one way that brings her happiness and me satisfaction.
Enjoy your sexual life but be moderate about it....
Happy Sunday.

Op, Sex between couples is for pleasure as well as procreation. Paul became celibate, because he chose to. He admonished the early Christians to get married if they cant stay celibàte.. U see, that statement alone means sex is not just for procreation but also for pleasure within couples.

And for those of you encouraging premarital sex, keep justifying urself when u know premarital sex is wrong on all levels.

And op please always accord Jesus with the respect he deserves in ur writeup..

tosinjay:
What's your point op? Jesus outlined that fornication is a sin, he ruled out divorce and against lust, those are the most important things that revolves around sex. When those are taking into consideration a sheep knws the way by it but only a goat would not see clear writing but seeking more.

What's the source for these things you say as it's certainly not the bible, celibacy according to the bible was under personal steps. The bible never stated that all the disciples were celibate.

Just leave the Op to be writing what he doesn't know. The truth is, there are lots of messages coming up these days, all in an attempt to discredit some of the already established truths in the Bible.

I don't even know what the Op is saying, and for people to be hailing him, then you will understand what the world is now - people looking for excuses to sin and bring it under the message of Grace. God help us!

The Bible talks about sex, sex before marriage as a sin, sex between married people, etc. In the first place who initiated Sex? God of course! Remember He made them "Male and Female". And who initiated marriage? The same God. So, note that both Sex and Marriage are not initiations or innovations of man but of God.

If the guy really knows his Bible he wouldn't even be writing some of these stuff.

Follow religion all you want, you cannot cheat Nature.

princeSammyz:
that's true o. Lol. I'm speaking from a rather liberal point of view.

I like this guy. Accepting the truth for what it is without insults like many Nairalanders do.

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

it wasn't the act that got Onan killed. It was the motive. He inherited his brother's wife and was supposed to raise offspring for the dead brother (as was the custom). He however chose to play smart; having sex with the woman, but slyly avoiding getting her pregnant because he 'knew the offspring would not be his'.

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

Just like that? God killed him, maybe not the God I'm serving.

I could not ve agree less Jesus Christ is God,God said go into the wold and multiple why will he go against his word he is I am that I am so all the Church are wrong

When you look at the opposite sex lustfully, you have commite sin not only when you have sex

Op, what exactly is your point... Are you for sex outside marriage or in support of fornication?

Must JESUS keep repeating what You and I know is wrong through the Confirmation of The Holy Ghost and His Preachers?

Please, Op, get more familiar with the Bible KJV for instance and be teachable

fabianiweka:
I could not ve agree less Jesus Christ is God,God said go into the wold and multiple why will he go against his word he is I am that I am so all the Church are wrong

Wake up from your deceit. Sex outside marriage is Sin and leads to destruction

Nice observation.

DonaldYusuf:

Just leave the Op to be writing what he doesn't know. The truth is, there are lots of messages coming up these days, all in an attempt to discredit some of the already established truths in the Bible.

I don't even know what the Op is saying, and for people to be hailing him, then you will understand what the world is now - people looking for excuses to sin and bring it under the message of Grace. God help us!

The Bible talks about sex, sex before marriage as a sin, sex between married people, etc. In the first place who initiated Sex? God of course! Remember He made them "Male and Female". And who initiated marriage? The same God. So, note that both Sex and Marriage are not initiations or innovations of man but of God.

If the guy really knows his Bible he wouldn't even be writing some of these stuff.

Nice point my brother... Don't mind the Op

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

His name is ONAN in Genesis 38

brownlolly:


So logically, you're saying that if you want 4 kids, you can only have sex 4 times in your entire lifetime?

Maybe that's a hard truth. Besides, what's the assurance that she will get pregnant each time u have sex with her..And no, I said get procreate should be the basic reason behind sex

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

the bible neva stated the reason of his death,so we cant tel

Would You Make Children With Your Brother's Wife?

swiz123:

He was to make children with her.

princeSammyz:
And I keep wondering what even made sex outside marriage a sin... Every other sin seem to be some kind of harm against a neighbor or against God, but sex, mutual pleasure for two consenting adults... I keep wondering

1cor 6 :15-18

NaijaNewsPapers:


Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that the gospel was one, complete, and indestructible whole — particularly as it applied to human sexuality. But it’s not that simple.


The idea that is still taught in some churches today is that the Christian sexual ethic came to earth fully formed, straight from heaven, about 2,000 years ago. Throughout all that time, there was exactly one way for Christians to express their sexuality — by staying abstinent until they got married to a person of the opposite gender. And then, you could have at it all you wanted.


But what I wasn’t taught in Sunday School is that the Bible’s teachings on sex have been interpreted in many different ways. I didn’t know that the early Christians actually started practicing celibacy because they were convinced the end of the world was near. No one told me that marriage wasn’t always defined and controlled by the church. And that even within marriage, sex wasn’t always something that Christians were taught to enjoy and cherish.


And the truth is that the standards on what it means to be a sexual person and live a Christian life have changed.

Here are 4 facts to prove it.

1. For the first 1,000 years of Christianity (that’s at least HALF of its existence, people), many Christians wouldn’t have considered getting married in a church.


Marriages in the West were originally just economic alliances made between two families, with both the church and the state staying out of the proceedings. This meant that weddings didn’t require the presence of a priest.


The church got involved in regulating marriage much later on, as its influence began to increase in Western Europe. It wasn’t until 1215 that the Church formally put a claim on marriage and hashed out rules about what made children legitimate.


2. To be a truly devoted Christian during the earliest days of the church, you needed to stop having sex altogether.


Early Christians’ belief that Jesus’ second coming was imminent created an environment that exalted celibacy over marriage. It was a radical departure from Jewish teachings that the disciples would have been familiar with. But it makes sense — what was the point of getting tied up with worldly responsibilities, like taking care of a spouse, children and a household, when the end of the world was near?


St. Paul, a celibate Christian leader who wrote most of the New Testament, thought of practicing celibacy as taking the higher road towards God, since it allows Christians to concentrate wholly on things of the spirit.

The second coming didn’t happen, but the emphasis on celibacy stayed. Couples in the second century were expected to stop having sex altogether after producing several children.


3. The Church developed some rules about sex that would seem strange.

In medieval times, the church became deeply involved with controlling people’s sex lives. Virginity and monogamy were still prized, while homosexuality could be punished by death. The church also had very specific requirements for what type of sex married couples could have. Since all sex was supposed to be for the purposes of procreation, certain positions were banned (no sex standing up, the woman shouldn’t be on top, no doggy style, oral, anal, or masturbation). And then there were restrictions on what days of the week people could have sex (not on fast days, or feast days for a saint, or on Sundays, for example).

Sex was also discouraged when a woman was menstruating, pregnant, or breastfeeding, (which considering there was no birth control, could have been a good deal of the time). All of these prohibitions meant that on average, sex between married couples was only legal about once per week, if that.

4. Jesus had very little to say about sex.
Other than a some heavy admonishments against lust and against divorce, the Jesus of the Bible didn’t have a lot to say about issues of sexuality. (My guess is that he was too busy hanging out with the poor and healing the sick to care. Just a guess). He also had nothing at all to say about homosexuality or sexual identity as we understand it today.

Most of the instruction about sex comes from Christian leaders who started spreading the religion after Jesus’ death.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/08/4-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html

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Bros, show us your source, else we just take it that you felt like writing all these.

Paul was one of the many apostles that were celebate. Which other apostle was a celebate??

The Bible should be your guide, not what the Church is doing.

SEE THE 3 VERY BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS VERY USEFUL TO A DYING CHRISTIAN at http://www.knowledgecrave.com/2017/07/3-very-beautiful-prayers-for-dying-catholics.html

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

Who told you that the Son of Judah did i for fun? It is because he, during the sexual act later think, -why should I give my late brother a child, was he not wicked to us while he was alife, common man, am not impregnating his sweet widow, let me pour it out, you scum bag!...." He came off and out it came oozing. Seeing this treachery of unforgiveness, wickedness, God struck him as his brothers and he fell limp to death!
Fun, sex is for 1. Fun 2. Procteation 3. Rest!
Have fun with the wife of your youth, anyhow, but make it happy and memorious!

dapyd1:
The marriages in the bible were traditional. The wedding at Cana was traditional. The old testament wedding g were traditional. The weddings in the new testament are traditional. Church weddings came in, as you said, less than 1000 years ago.

The other day I was saying that lady that got pregnant after traditional wedding and before church wedding was certified to. People came for me here on nairaland. The church refused to do wedding for her. Why?

Bible says, therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother. Which part of the wedding ceremonies do the parents permit you to leave and follow your spouse, TRADITIONAL.

The blessings Bible regards for marriage is your parents, not the priest. Church weddings is just an addition.

But then, people don't study the word with an open heart. We have carried doctrines above and beyond. Our hearts are rigid. Anyone that doesn't agree with us is saying nonsense.

As for me, I'll likely do church wedding because of my wife. But I'll recognise the traditional and court. And I can have sex after them. I believe God's hand is on the marriage already.


As far as I'm concerned also, any sexual act between couples is allowed. If me and my wife like, she can handcuff me to the bed.

Am glad your comment neutralised the above post by op

NaijaNewsPapers:


Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that the gospel was one, complete, and indestructible whole — particularly as it applied to human sexuality. But it’s not that simple.


The idea that is still taught in some churches today is that the Christian sexual ethic came to earth fully formed, straight from heaven, about 2,000 years ago. Throughout all that time, there was exactly one way for Christians to express their sexuality — by staying abstinent until they got married to a person of the opposite gender. And then, you could have at it all you wanted.


But what I wasn’t taught in Sunday School is that the Bible’s teachings on sex have been interpreted in many different ways. I didn’t know that the early Christians actually started practicing celibacy because they were convinced the end of the world was near. No one told me that marriage wasn’t always defined and controlled by the church. And that even within marriage, sex wasn’t always something that Christians were taught to enjoy and cherish.


And the truth is that the standards on what it means to be a sexual person and live a Christian life have changed.

Here are 4 facts to prove it.

1. For the first 1,000 years of Christianity (that’s at least HALF of its existence, people), many Christians wouldn’t have considered getting married in a church.


Marriages in the West were originally just economic alliances made between two families, with both the church and the state staying out of the proceedings. This meant that weddings didn’t require the presence of a priest.


The church got involved in regulating marriage much later on, as its influence began to increase in Western Europe. It wasn’t until 1215 that the Church formally put a claim on marriage and hashed out rules about what made children legitimate.


2. To be a truly devoted Christian during the earliest days of the church, you needed to stop having sex altogether.


Early Christians’ belief that Jesus’ second coming was imminent created an environment that exalted celibacy over marriage. It was a radical departure from Jewish teachings that the disciples would have been familiar with. But it makes sense — what was the point of getting tied up with worldly responsibilities, like taking care of a spouse, children and a household, when the end of the world was near?


St. Paul, a celibate Christian leader who wrote most of the New Testament, thought of practicing celibacy as taking the higher road towards God, since it allows Christians to concentrate wholly on things of the spirit.

The second coming didn’t happen, but the emphasis on celibacy stayed. Couples in the second century were expected to stop having sex altogether after producing several children.


3. The Church developed some rules about sex that would seem strange.

In medieval times, the church became deeply involved with controlling people’s sex lives. Virginity and monogamy were still prized, while homosexuality could be punished by death. The church also had very specific requirements for what type of sex married couples could have. Since all sex was supposed to be for the purposes of procreation, certain positions were banned (no sex standing up, the woman shouldn’t be on top, no doggy style, oral, anal, or masturbation). And then there were restrictions on what days of the week people could have sex (not on fast days, or feast days for a saint, or on Sundays, for example).

Sex was also discouraged when a woman was menstruating, pregnant, or breastfeeding, (which considering there was no birth control, could have been a good deal of the time). All of these prohibitions meant that on average, sex between married couples was only legal about once per week, if that.

4. Jesus had very little to say about sex.
Other than a some heavy admonishments against lust and against divorce, the Jesus of the Bible didn’t have a lot to say about issues of sexuality. (My guess is that he was too busy hanging out with the poor and healing the sick to care. Just a guess). He also had nothing at all to say about homosexuality or sexual identity as we understand it today.

Most of the instruction about sex comes from Christian leaders who started spreading the religion after Jesus’ death.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2017/08/4-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html

The Bible didn't teach full celibacy.

1 Corin 7:1-end

stop your propaganda


1 Corin 7:1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Keep Your Marriage Vows

And Christians think you must do church wedding to belong?

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

Genesis 38:9

God killed him not because he poured the semen on the floor but because of the reason he poured it (evil).
And knowing the children will not be his, he poured the semen on the floor.

swiz123:

Maybe that's a hard truth. Besides, what's the assurance that she will get pregnant each time u have sex with her..And no, I said get procreate should be the basic reason behind sex

And what's the meaning of procreation again?

swiz123:
The basic reason for sex should be to procreate. All other reasons are secondary and to some extent not religious. There was a man in the Bible tho I've forgotten his name, he had sex with his brother's widow and poured his semen on the floor.God killed him. That should be enough reason to show that sex shouldn't be all about fun.

bros handcuff na small thing o....me I wan throw back flee...... shuu ...or Jackie chan

Well, sex is sex!

korret

Mavrick2012:
Truth is, Christianity is one of the most corrupted religion.
The Bible, over a long period, has undergone series of additions and subtractions.
This is why even those who practice it are a bit confused.
In addition to christ, some equally involves
Mary,
some Angels,
others candles,
some papas/GOs,
oil,
handkerchief,
some tell ladies to cover, some say no need.
In the past, they preached only repentance and rapture,
today, they emphasise more on material prosperity.
Once upon a time, sex outside marriage was a huge sin,
today, it means nothing, not as earlier painted.
I stopped practicing the religion because
the more i saw, the less i understood.
Lol