What Is the Christian View of Chastity and Sex?

Hey Andy, would you please explain to me the Christian argument for chastity? Also, is Christianity pro-body and pro-sex, and please argue that?

Hi, wow, interesting questions. OK, well, to start off, we’ll open this up with checking what the Bible (as a whole) says about sex.

Sex in the Bible

According to the Bible:

1. God created us as sexual beings.
2. God introduced marriage to us with the first 2 humans (He brought the woman to Adam, as a father does his daughter today, bone of my bone etc. is known as wedding vows, Adam only had 1 wife).
3. God told His early creation to subdue the earth and multiply

So sex is in fact supported in the Bible.

Sex Outside of Marriage

But now, for the sake of chastity, it’s important to understand that sex was created and meant to be within the relationship of a married couple, not outside marriage. Therefore, sex outside of marriage is sin, because it goes against that for which it was created. For instance:

The Apostle Paul explains in 1 Corinthians that sex outside of marriage is actually the worst sin you can commit against yourself, for when you have sex with somebody, you actually merge yourself with that person. You’ve heard that analogy with the tree, right? A guy sleeps with this girl who’s slept with 10 other guys, so technically he’s sleeping with them too…well, that argument originated in the context of AIDS, but similarly, because sex is not just a physical enjoyment, but also an emotional, physical, and spiritual joining of oneself with another, you’re actually merging yourself with each person you have sex with.

One example that you may be familiar with, especially if you’ve ever attended a mission trip in youth ministry, is “purple”. The guy’s blue, the girl’s red (primary colors). When each primary color mixes with the other (sex with each other), they each become purple. If you’re married, then purple is good, but until then, God created you to remain your primary color. Now say you’re each already purple, and you each have sex with others — you keep mixing in other shades and colors, and soon you don’t know what color you are, or you look like those blobs of Play-doh with all the colors mixed into it…and they’re so mixed in that you’ll never get them back to their original colors (like the clay glob picture with this post).

So you see, Christianity isn’t against sex — sex is awesome, it feels great, and was created for our pleasure. Otherwise, it wouldn’t feel so good (yes, I’m married). So Christianity is pro-sex, and pro-body, but only in the context in which God had intended it to be, which is marriage. But that’s why chastity is so important until you’re married – because it’s actually damaging if you have it outside the context in which it was created.

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