Originally Posted by MartyLK

God also created up perfect, sinless. When sin entered the world, everything became corrupt, even our "natural sex desires" became corrupt.

The pleasure of sexual interaction between a husband and wife is a gift from God, not a right. If God hadn't deemed man should not be alone, that gift of companionship would not be ours.

Any and all sexual interaction outside of marriage is sin. Even the thought of such desires is sin. Since sin entered the world we all became utterly sinful. We basically breath sin, or swim in sin, even though there are those of us who have the highest moral values and goodness, they are absolutely sinful and corrupt in the human nature.

Hence the reason for the sacrifice of the most innocent and beautiful person to ever live, the Son of God.

For the Father to sacrifice his beloved and precious child for us, his bitter enemy, is actually worse than any one of the most upright and loving Fathers of us to give our child for the life of Osama Bin Laden...or Hitler, for that matter. And do it while these reprobates are trying to kill us!

That is incomprehensible to us but it is true and shows God's unimaginable glory.

We find it rather discomforting and disconcerting that we all are that vile in our nature, but we are, as scripture declares. We don't see that vileness in ourselves but God sees it. Nevertheless, he chose to love us rather than do what he desired, destroy us in his perfect justice.

He cannot tolerate even the slightest sin or imperfection. Nothing imperfect or unholy or sinful can stand in his presence. That is why we need Christ's perfection and holiness; to be clothed with Christ.

Even the beginning of a desire for what is forbidden is sinful. When God forebode the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, all Satan had to do was create the desire for the fruit. Once that desire sprang up, that was all that was necessary to condemn the world. For out of the heart comes sin.

Like Paul, the Apostle, said by inspiration of the Holy Spirit: "Oh woe is me! Who will save me from this body of doom! Thanks be to God in Christ!"