Before the Fall
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Title: Before the Fall------------------------------ Date: 1/27/2001
Keywords:
"fall" "nature"
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temptation.
Passage: Genesis 2:25*
The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Questions
1. Why do you think the biblical author made this observation?
2. How could this verse apply to your struggles with pornography?
Practical help
In William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," a group of boys stranded on an island learn that returning to nature means sliding into increasing savagery; a generation of middle school students will never forget the grisly death of Piggy.
Many of us, consciously or unconsciously, apply this same notion to sex as an animalistic act. Consider the popular conventions of the porn genre: unmarried sex, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, and, of course, bestiality. But Scripture urges us to take one step further back to our true nature.
In the Garden of Eden, "the man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame." Why? Because Adam and Eve had nothing to feel shameful about. The fall brought about sexual perversion, not vice versa.
Reclaim your true sexual heritage, and don't squander your energies on the fallen images of pornography.
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