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Originally Posted by LFJC
Thats a pretty far stretch to interpret it that way. Arent we all slaves to the body's other urges? We eat, drink, sleep, sneeze, use the restroom, etc all at the urging of our bodies. Why is this particular one any different? Because of the moral implications of ... (searches for delicate term)... using that part of the body with someone else?
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The other bodily functions you mention are requisites for continuing to exist (minus sneezing *shrug*). Contrary to popular belief, life will go on if you never get to have sex
God specifically talks about morality and sexual sins in the Bible. He says that someone who sins sexually sins against their own body.
1 Corinthians 6:18 - "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body."
The Bible never says that eating, sleeping (unless you're a sluggard), or using the restroom are sins. There's nothing immoral about eating the wrong kinds of food - Jesus even says that it's not what goes into someone's mouth that makes them unclean, but it's what comes OUT of someone's mouth.
Matthew 15:11 - "
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'"
James further explores this by talking about taming the tongue.
James 3:3-12 - "When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt
[fn] water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water."