Sexuality in the Old Testament: strong as death, unquenchable as fire.

From: Currents in Theology and Mission | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Being sexual is part of being human, and the Old Testament quite frankly acknowledges this important aspect of our humanity. It unapologetically depicts men and women as physical and sexual creatures, not only as spiritual, rational, and moral beings, as we sometimes pretend when we are in our religious, Sunday mode. Just as all the other animals created alongside us on the sixth day in the Genesis story, we are acknowledged to be "flesh" (basar in Hebrew), with all of its appetites and aversions, its needs and desires, its abilities and limitations, its potential for good and for ...

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