What the Bible really says about sex
Image via Wikipedia The Bible is brutally honest about human sinfulness in all its forms, including sexuality . Nevertheless, the Bible presents a consistent and clear sexual ethic. The issue is not a lack of clarity. Has the church misunderstood the Bible’s teachings on sexuality for over two thousand years? The current issue of Newsweek magazine reports on “new scholarship on the Good Book’s naughty bits” that is supposed to turn our understanding of the Bible’s teachings on sex upside down. Lisa Miller, Newsweek ’s religion editor, wrote the article entitled “What the Bible Really Says About Sex.” Well, the one thing you need to know up front is that the article falls far short of its title. Miller bases her report on two recent books — Michael Coogan ’s God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says and Jennifer Wright Knust’s Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire . Neither of these books breaks new ground. Instead, the books distill argume