Is it ok for couples to perform oral sex on each other or manually stimulate each other’s erogenous areas before marriage? In other words, does the Bible allow everything short of penile-vaginal intercourse before marriage?
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Enduring and Overcoming the Trials and Temptations of Singleness
Singleness is not a gift, but rather it is a series of trials that God calls all men and women to face and overcome unless they have the rare gift of celibacy. In this 7-part podcast series, I teach single men and women biblically based techniques that can help them endure the trials of loneliness, lovelessness, childlessness, unmet sexual desire and courtship using biblically based techniques. I also teach singles how to escape the temptations that happen during many of these trials.
The truth is that there are many married men and women living in difficult marriages who are actually experiencing some of these same trials as a result of their spouse’s sinful behavior. And this series can be helpful to these people in difficult marriages as well.
Is Anal Sex a Sin in the Bible?
What does the Bible say about anal sex? Is there a difference between Sodomy and anal sex in the Bible or are they one and the same? Is anal sex allowed between a husband and wife in marriage? What are the health risks of anal sex? What if a husband and wife disagree about analContinue reading “Is Anal Sex a Sin in the Bible?”
Are Strapless Wedding Dresses Immodest for Christian Women?
Many Christian women are told that it is immodest for them to consider any type of strapless wedding dress. The primary reason they are told strapless wedding dresses are immodest is because they expose a woman’s shoulders and draw more attention to her cleavage which in turn will cause the men at the wedding andContinue reading “Are Strapless Wedding Dresses Immodest for Christian Women?”
Masturbation Is NOT A Sin In The Bible
Nowhere in the Scriptures does the Bible condemn masturbation either by specific command or by a general principle. Yet, since the days of the early post apostolic church, Christian theologians have waged a war on this aspect of masculine sexuality as well as masculine sexuality in general. And they continue to to so to thisContinue reading “Masturbation Is NOT A Sin In The Bible”
The War on Masculine Sexuality
The church’s war against masculine sexuality began around 50 A.D. when some post apostolic church fathers began to follow false doctrines of asceticism. Clement of Alexandria taught that sex was a desire of the flesh and that men should only have sex for “begetting children” and not because of “desire he feels for his wife”. Continue reading “The War on Masculine Sexuality”
Why Sadomasochism Is Unbiblical
Sadomasochism is a word used to represent two corruptions of the human nature by sin that often go together. Secular humanism, because it does not recognize sin, refers to these two conditions as “disorders”. Masochism is defined as follows by Britannica.com: “Psychosexual disorder in which erotic release is achieved through having pain inflicted on oneself.Continue reading “Why Sadomasochism Is Unbiblical”
Does 1 Corinthians 7:2 Make Husbands and Wives Sexual Equals?
1 Corinthians 7:2 is a verse that is commonly used to try and teach that God no longer allows polygamy in the New Testament and that husbands and wives mutually and exclusively own one another. So here is the passage at the heart of our discussion (from the KJV): “Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let everyContinue reading “Does 1 Corinthians 7:2 Make Husbands and Wives Sexual Equals?”
Leviticus 15:16 Includes Masturbation
Many commentators over the centuries have tried to say Leviticus 15:16 is only describing a man having a nocturnal emission and not masturbation. But there is a glaring problem with this interpretation as Leviticus 15:16 makes no qualifications about this release of his seed happening at night as it does in Deuteronomy 23:10. While IContinue reading “Leviticus 15:16 Includes Masturbation”
Christian Wives Will You Take the Sexual Submission Challenge?
A woman named Elyse wrote the following comment on my article “The Benefits of Being a Sexually Obedient Wife”: “I had a recent discovery regarding sex and it seems very similar to this. I have always been on and off with sexual desire and, of course my husband has always had more than me. IContinue reading “Christian Wives Will You Take the Sexual Submission Challenge?”