Why do so many Christians treat sexual morality as more important than other fields of morality? From my reading of the Bible, I never got the impression that this should be the case.

We also focus way more on porn, masturbation and premarital sex than actual sexual crimes like molestation and rape.

Is it just our churches? Why is this?

logicalhumour:
Why do so many Christians treat sexual morality as more important than other fields of morality? From my reading of the Bible, I never got the impression that this should be the case.

We also focus way more on porn, masturbation and premarital sex than actual sexual crimes like molestation and rape.

Is it just our churches? Why is this?

the foundation of society is family and what begins family is marriage and what brings children the future members of society is sex.

If the very foundation of society is immoral then the very society itself will be immoral.

Sexual morality is something I can liken to sexual control. For people to control themselves.

Now that doesn't mean I agree with the exaggeration and those who add to God's commands but doesn't that occur because people don't even understand the commands or why God gave them.

Everyone can be happy if they are not sexually immoral. You have your own husband, you can marry your wives without lusting for another man's wife. There's no special sexual pleasure when you sleep with an animal, your specific sex or your blood or marriage relatives. Don't create a mess of yourselves.

Now premarital sex was an added control, masturbation, marrying one wife, were all added controls that some religious leaders saw as necessary just as Moses saw giving divorce certificates as necessary even for their evil unnecessary reasons (God hates divorce but isn't against it, he hates for sinners to perish but they perish anyway)


God wants us to love and not to lust, to give and not to always be wanting and desiring or letting those desires control us, mislead and even destroy us.

So yes, if we can't control our flesh or our very basic nature, having dominion or control other things will basically be more tough.


The first person recorded to commit sexual immorality, Reuben lost his headship and was spoken of, Reuben unstable. A person can lose a lot by having loose morals, be it to sexual desire, to hunger to lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, pride of life and the like.

If you feel affected by a particular area it may be an area you need to address. But know this, the love of money is the root of evil, and sexual immorality is usually it's "first fruit"

We Africans love suffering, we think it toughen us.
Any sin that doesn't give us pleasure is less sin. Only that which gives more pleasure is frown upon.

Sex, drink, even eating are grave sins

Meanwhile, wickedness, oppression, killing, stealing are less talk-about sin

logicalhumour:
■ Why do so many Christians treat sexual morality as more important than other fields of morality? From my reading of the Bible, I never got the impression that this should be the case.
■ We also focus way more on porn, masturbation and premarital sex than actual sexual crimes like molestation and rape. Is it just our churches? Why is this?

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1. The problem is not of scripture as you rightly pointed out but the minds of men, and of sexual frustrations.

2. Again, I think on the most part, it is about sexual frustration..