6 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Christianity And Sex

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Published by: HUFFINGTON on 26 Feb 2016
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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 [...]

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