"Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for
him." So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the
field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.
So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his
ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man
said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man leaves his father
and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. " (Genesis 2:18-25, RSV).
So here we find a number of things about our first parents Adam and Eve. God knew ahead of time that man would be
lonely and would need a companion. Notice also that the first woman came from the man, not apart of the man as some modern women consider themselves today.
Notice also that God is the one who laid down the ground rules for marital relations in that a man and woman would cleave to each other in a very special,
intimate relationship and become "one flesh" in many different ways. Notice also that they were both naked and were not ashamed. So where did shame come
from and the ideas that spread throughout human history that sex was dirty and shameful? You guessed it: none other than Satan the devil! Notice
what happened after Adam and Eve disobeyed God:
"The woman was convinced. How lovely and fresh looking it was! [the forbidden fruit] And it would
make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit and gave some to her husband, and he ate it too.
And as they ate it, suddenly they became aware of their
nakedness, and were embarrassed. So they strung fig leaves together to cover themselves around the hips.
That evening they heard the sound of the Lord God
walking in the garden; and they hid themselves among the trees. The Lord God called to Adam, "Why are you hiding?" And Adam replied, "I heard you coming and
didn't want you to see me naked. So I hid." "Who told you you were naked?" the Lord God asked. "Have you eaten fruit from the tree I warned you about?" "Yes,"
Adam admitted, "but it was the woman you gave me who brought me some, and I ate it." Then the Lord God asked the woman, "How could you do such a thing?" "The
serpent tricked me," she replied." (Genesis 3:6-13, TLB)
So instead of believing and obeying God like they should, they instead believed and obeyed Satan. And humans have been
doing that ever since. So God originally created man and woman to have a very special relationship together, including sexual relations. He made a man
physically larger and stronger than a woman, who in the New Testament is referred to as the weaker [in strength] vessel (1 Peter 3:7). God used a rib from Adam to fashion Eve. Just as the ribs are close to the
body right next to the arms, the man should likewise guard and lead the woman and keep her close to him and his heart.
One of the primary chapters in the New Testament which speaks of marital relations is in the Book of
1 Corinthians, Chapter 7 where we find the following, referring to those who are single and
have not yet married:
" Now about the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to live a celibate life. But because
there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. " (1Corinthians 7:12, NLT)
There you have it. In order to avoid sexual immorality outside of marriage (fornication) people in general should marry.
Then the apostle Paul goes on to say the following:
" Now I say to those who aren't married and to widows it's better to stay unmarried, just as I am. But if
they can't control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It's better to marry than to burn with lust. " (1Corinthians 7:8-9, NLT)
We live in a nation and a world today where people have very little self-control. Paul rightly says that it is better
to marry than to live a life of uncontrolled lust. The airwaves and the Internet are filled with the broadcasts of Satan (who is sexless) which
continually influence people to commit more and more brazen sexual immorality in the areas of fornication, adultery (our last president was famous for this),
homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, on and on. We are a nation that is obsessed with sex in every conceivable form. And we are paying a dear price for our
disobedience of God’s sacred law and His seventh commandment:
"You shall not commit adultery." (Exodus 20:14, RSV).
And what is the price that humans are paying? Broken marriages, broken homes, heartbroken mates, millions of
children without fathers or mothers, bankruptcies, poverty, AIDS and STDs by the tens of millions throughout the world. It is estimated that there have been
approximately 18.8 million deaths through 1999 from AIDS and HIV, let alone the multiple tens of millions of people who get
venereal disease, which is a contagious disease (as gonorrhea or syphilis) usually acquired by having sexual intercourse with someone who already has it.
So God Almighty is the Creator of men and women. He created sex to be a great joy and to be used properly within the
confines of marriage. The Great God is the One who has made the laws of marriage and sexual relations. It is God and His sacred Word, and not puny man, who
defines what is moral and what is immoral, what is acceptable and what is not.
God says to keep yourself pure and especially for young people to save yourself for that someone special who you will
one day marry. Put your life into God’s loving care and He will provide that one special person, just for you:
"Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart." (Psalms 37:4, RSV)
Answer Given By: Rick/Eileen Beltz
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