Insightful Musings on the Scriptures
by
Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67
Passage: Matthew 19:1-15
Focus: “…at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female…” Matthew 19:4.
Without becoming caught up in the difficult debate over divorce and remarriage and questions over details such as licenses, ceremonies, and the superiority of a church wedding over a civil wedding, let’s take time to focus here on a fundamental FACT and IDEAL: GOD MADE PEOPLE EITHER MALE OR FEMALE WITH BINDING RESPONSIBILITES ATTACHED.
First, consider the MADE part of this thesis. It is more than difficult for me to comprehend the gross absurdity of the evolutionary notion that embraces the idea that all life is a total accident. It’s just a lot of B.S.—bad science. Even if I were to concede enough to allow that just maybe some proteins and amino acids coupled with an electrical shock could have caused a “spark” of life at some point, how could we account for the development of gender and all the minute distinctions and details. It is just infinitely impossible! GOD MADE GENDER (sexuality). In my judgment, there is simply no better scientific explanation.
This “FACT and IDEAL” thesis above may not appear very profound at first. But it only makes sense to me that if we, as a body of Bible believers called the CHURCH, could allow that simple principle to be fully absorbed by our persistently dirty little hearts, it would go a long way toward dealing effectively with the prominence of sexual permissiveness and marital infidelity that so plagues the church in particular and our society in general. Please, please, please understand that your maleness or femaleness, with its accompanying sexual apparatus is not of your own making or design nor the invention of modern man. Sexuality is the creation and gift of God to humans and He has every right to prescribe high responsibilities for its use.
Try focusing again on these key words in this passage: “…male and female…one flesh…God has joined together (by the means of specially-designed sexual parts and psychological attractions)…let not man (or man-made ideas) separate.” Men will always come up with all manner of exceptions and excuses for violating God’s rule. But let’s be reminded of the basic rule nonetheless: THOU SHALT NOT EXERCISE THY SEXUAL GIFTING OUTSIDE THE CONFIRNES OF MARRIAGE AND COMMITMENT TO PERMANENCE. Indeed sexual involvement between male and female IS a form of marriage from God’s perspective (1 Cor. 6:9-20), confirming the tremendous seriousness of fornication and adultery.
That’s a truth worth establishing in our own hearts. That’s a truth worth communicating to our children.