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by angel_death04 on March 3rd, 2006

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Do Protestants believe it is okay to have sex just for the pleasure and fun?

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  • by anonymous on March 17th, 2006

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    Perhaps some do, as I cannot speak for all of them. However, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod rejects the idea that sex is just for pleasure and fun. Volutary childlessness is held by conservative Lutherans as sin. Contraception is not to be used for the purposes of volutary childlessness. Sex, according to the Bible, is only used in the context of marraige. Within marraige, it binds the partners as one and is used by God to create new people.

    This Lutheran document on human sexuality gives lots of information:

    http://www.lcms.org/graphics/assets/media/CTCR/Human_Sexuality1.pdf

    Wisconsin Synod documents on sexuality can be found here:

    http://www.wls.wels.net/library/Essays/Subjects/S/ssubind.htm

    From Luther's Small Catechism:

    The Sixth Commandment.
    Thou shalt not commit adultery.
    What does this mean?
    --Answer.
    We should fear and love God that we may lead a chaste and decent life in words and deeds, and each love and honor his spouse.

    Part of Luther's Large Catechism, The Sixth Commandment:

    206] But since this commandment is aimed directly at the state of matrimony and gives occasion to speak of the same, you must well understand and mark, first, how gloriously God honors and extols this estate, inasmuch as by His commandment He both sanctions and guards it. He has sanctioned it above in the Fourth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother; but here He has (as we said) hedged it about and protected it. 207] Therefore He also wishes us to honor it, and to maintain and conduct it as a divine and blessed estate; because, in the first place, He has instituted it before all others, and therefore created man and woman separately (as is evident), not for lewdness, but that they should [legitimately] live together, be fruitful, beget children, and nourish and train them to the honor of God.

    208] Therefore God has also most richly blessed this estate above all others, and, in addition, has bestowed on it and wrapped up in it everything in the world, to the end that this estate might be well and richly provided for. Married life is therefore no jest or presumption; but it is an excellent thing and a matter of divine seriousness. For it is of the highest importance to Him that persons be raised who may serve the world and promote the knowledge of God, godly living, and all virtues, to fight against wickedness and the devil.

    209] Therefore I have always taught that this estate should not be despised nor held in disrepute, as is done by the blind world and our false ecclesiastics, but that it be regarded according to God's Word, by which it is adorned and sanctified, so that it is not only placed on an equality with other estates, but that it precedes and surpasses them all, whether they be that of emperor, princes, bishops, or whoever they please. For both ecclesiastical and civil estates must humble themselves and all be found in this estate, as we shall hear. 210] Therefore it is not a peculiar estate, but the most common and noblest estate, which pervades all Christendom, yea which extends through all the world.

    211] In the second place, you must know also that it is not only an honorable, but also a necessary state, and it is solemnly commanded by God that, in general, in all conditions, men and women, who were created for it, shall be found in this estate; yet with some exceptions (although few) whom God has especially excepted, so that they are not fit for the married estate, or whom He has released by a high, supernatural gift that they can maintain chastity without this estate. 212] For where nature has its course, as it is implanted by God, it is not possible to remain chaste without marriage. For flesh and blood remain flesh and blood, and the natural inclination and excitement have their course without let or hindrance, as everybody sees and feels. In order, therefore, that it may be the more easy in some degree to avoid inchastity, God has commanded the estate of matrimony, that every one may have his proper portion and be satisfied therewith; although God's grace besides is required in order that the heart also may be pure.

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