Semen is both sacrifice and divine presence in this analogy.
In the same way (and it’s just gonna get gross after this, I’m sorry), for Josh, a man brings an offering of semen to a vagina, and then semen is able to fill the whole vagina. In Olden Times, God lived in his sanctuary because of purifying blood sacrifices.Īfter a priest applied blood to the sanctuary, God’s presence could fill the space. It seems like Josh is using a sacred space model. How exactly a husband and wife having sex depicts salvation is not obvious, nor is it clear what model of atonement, if any, Josh is using. The logic from here on just gets foggier. Okay, so: the thing being contrasted here is sex outside of marriage (leaves one alone) and sex within marriage (depicts Jesus and the church). It’s hard to believe a TGC writer believes that Jesus saves you from loneliness, as opposed to damnation, etc. The logic is already fuzzy at this point.
Instead, if you marry your girlfriend, sex with your wife will point you to Jesus, who will save you. What he learned is that sex with your friends and girlfriends won’t save you. By this he means “end his loneliness.” He used to seek this from girlfriends and female acquaintances. This article and I are in a fight.įirst, I’m going to summarize this article as clearly as I can without commentary. To show why people were upset, I’d like to share just a few excerpts of the original article: TGC turned off comments everywhere on the article, and eventually took it down, replacing it with a plea to read the free first chapter. (hint: the rest just makes it worse). Butler was removed from speaking at the IF Gathering this weekend. On Wednesday, The Gospel Coalition published an excerpt from the book, and it was so horrendous and the outcry so swift that things started moving quickly. In a nutshell, Joshua Ryan Butler, a pastor from Arizona and fellow of the newly minted Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, has a book launching in April called Beautiful Union, about what sex shows us about salvation and God. But I will try my best to condense and say just a few things.
I feel overwhelmed because there is so much to say. It’s actually quite unbelievable–except I saw it unfold in real time. It’s been such a crazy two days I don’t even know where to begin. The Gospel Coalition published a crazy article about sex this week, and the internet blew up.
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