Human Sexuality: Defined by the Mystery of the Trinity
by Dr Peter Jones, The Truth Xchange:
In our time there is a rising acceptance of one’s right to self-define, or (to put it more religiously), to self-realize. Expressed provocatively, this becomes: “I am whatever I say I am and you must accept my assertion and behave accordingly.” In his legal opinion on Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Chief Justice Kennedy described this self-definition more elegantly as “the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.” Of course, during most of the history of Western culture such an expression of human autonomy was rare. In the main, people believed that one’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were endowed, from outside of oneself, by the Creator. This is where the historic Christian view of sexuality finds its source.
The Bible discloses that there only two options for human existence. According to Paul in Romans 1:25 you either:
- “worship creation” (in a thousand different religious or non-religious ways), an option we can call Oneism, because divinized nature, in the name of human autonomy, self-creates, beyond which there is nothing; thus all reality shares the same self-creating reality—all is “one.” In this world, humans self-define.
- “worship the Creator” who made us, body, mind, and spirit, which option we can call Twoism, since there are two fundamentally different kinds of existence—the transcendent Creator, on the one hand, and everything else which is created, on the other. In this world, humans accept that the world has already been defined.
Needless to say, these two options are mutually exclusive. Oneism is based on impersonal sameness, which disallows distinctions, thereby denying holiness (a biblical notion according to which everything has its rightful and distinct place). In Twoism, on the other hand, holiness (things in their rightful places) is normative, and God, distinct from creation, in his rightful, separate place, is the only one who may be worshiped without committing idolatry. According to scripture, Twoism, as God’s revelation of himself, is thus the key to the cosmos.
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