God Loves Sex
An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness
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4.8 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
We live in a sexually mad world where God's gift of sex has been distorted through pornography, promiscuity, prostitution, abuse, trafficking, and rape. The church's position on sexual matters has been made clear throughout history: all sexual activity outside the boundaries of Christian marriage is sin. But rarely has the church honestly addressed the true needs of Christians who are struggling with sexual desires they believe to be counter to the Bible. So we hide our struggles and pretend to live above the erotic fray, or else we cozy up to the culture's redefinition of which sins are acceptable. But what does the Bible really say about sexual desire and sexual intimacy?
God Loves Sex offers a truly liberating, godly view of holy sensuality by recovering the clear meaning of the Song of Songs as God-sanctioned eroticism. Then it uses that lens to answer questions posed by a fictional new Christian struggling with expectations of sexual purity. It asks provocative questions, such as What does it mean to be both holy and filled with rich sexual desire? and How can our sexual struggles take us deeper into the purposes of God?
Pairing psychological insight with sound biblical scholarship, Allender and Longman bring it all out into the open, allowing Christians of any age and any marital status to discover sex the way God meant it to be.
Customer Reviews
A Must read for all
I’m not a big reader but this book called to me. From the moment I read the first page I couldn’t put it down it is one of the most honest well thought out views on culture sex marriage desire lust porn and society. Bless the person who backed the financial creation of this book and for the readers authors in entire team who made this book possible in my opinion it’s a must read for everybody who is single in a relationship has recently become married or been married a long time a book like this has the potential to revolutionize and restore what God created for us and has been so distorted over generations.
Liberating
This book is so freeing and liberating when it comes to the topic of sex and sexuality. Having been a Christian for more than a decade and a half now, this book has helped me name and see how it is a taboo in Christian culture to talk about anything involving topics of sexuality, fantasy, eroticism, and/or sexual desire. Whenever these topic are brought up, people become squeamish, as if though God would be very disappointed in them and would punish them because they thought about or uttered the word sex—much much less, explore or talk about why they have certain sexual desires.
God Loves Sex
The subtitle summarizes it all. It wasn’t what I expected, but it shed light in a unique and Biblical way what God intends for us. It is bold and honest. The book addresses our desires and propels us to be more holy.