if birth is the punishment, then why did god make sex feel so good?
2007-05-24 16:45:19 · 27 answers · asked by kris j 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, pain in childbirth is directly caused by the fact that human hips are too narrow. Why do you think men find wide hips attractive? Maybe not consciously, but that instinct is there because childbirth for that woman will not hurt as badly, and that increases the chances of her consenting to have more babies. Humans are evolutionarilly stalled in that aspect because of technologies such as midwifery. So in a way, metaphorically speaking, intelligence did very indirectly cause pain in childbirth. And sex feels good because the main goal of all life is to make more life. It's not there as temptation; it's not so some oogedy-boogedy can get his excuse to send you to eternal torment. It feels good so that people will do it and make little people that will grow up and do it and make more little people, and so on and so forth.
2007-05-24 18:52:20 · answer #1 · answered by Sacred Chao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your first assumption, that we are 'immediately sinners' is fake. i could no longer examine something of your rant. right here is the deal. God created the universe very stable. God presented one basic boundary, Adam and Eve crossed that boundary and introduced sin and death to this planet. all and sundry human beings might have completed an identical, Adam and Eve have been the terrific representatives for us. each and every little bit of evil, suffering and death that now exist accomplish that with the aid of autumn of Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve have been created with a quite loose will, which replaced into needed in the event that they have been to furnish you the possibility to love. Love can not exist in any real sense if all is predetermined, because it would be under a basically mechanistic view which includes Darwinism. actuality isn't consistent with equity. The logic of theism is this. The universe is complicated, prepared and has many harmoniously working structures. that's, to the main casual observer extra of a backyard than a glob. that's logical to have self assurance in a Gardener. The logic of Christianity, purely placed, is this, God is largely one ['uni'], yet ceaselessly exists as 3 persons ['verse']. he's the logical and sufficient reason for the universe. you will study that at a stable college.
2016-11-05 07:52:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God made Eve specifically as a mate to Adam. Sex and children were always a part of the plan. The pain of childbirth is part of the curse.
Sin has corrupted what should be one of the most pleasing and pure experiences a human being can have. Imagine the feelings of loving someone with the tenderness, trust and innocence of first love all of the time. God intended for man and woman to fall in love only once, with their ideal mate, and be perfectly commited to each other for eternity, loving each other equally, but Him most of all.
Sin changed all that. Sin corrupts intimacy for us, making it something humanity, and the US culture in particular deifies as the ultimate in pleasure - trust me it's not. Loving the Lord is far more pleasurable than any sex I've ever had. Since I became a Christian, I desire only to have sex in a way that is pleasing to my Lord - in the context of marriage. I have no doubt the Lord will make those experiences more fulfilling than I can imagine, but it's not something I'm worried about.
2007-05-24 17:09:26 · answer #3 · answered by gentlewoman_of_god 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birth isn't punishment, it brings forth new life! Life is a gift from God. The pain a woman endures during childbirth & labor is the punishment God gave to eve.
Sex is also a gift from God, and so is a child.
Every child is gift. from God.
2007-05-24 16:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by cas1025 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, God said that He wanted us to be fruitful and multiply. In the passage where He cursed Eve He said that her desire would be for her husband. But actually sexual pleasure is not part of God's punishment, it is part of his grace. God designed men and women to come together as "one flesh" in holy matrimony and He made it a whole lot of fun as a grace bonus.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
2007-05-24 16:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've given birth and it is the most fulfilling thing a woman has the privilege to experience. It is also the most painful experience I've ever had but the joy of holding that baby and looking in that being's face and having his or her little tiny hand hold your finger makes the memory of the pain totally go away or no one would have babies,
2007-05-24 16:56:21 · answer #6 · answered by all_waysapril 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Birth is NOT punishment for Eve. Let's look at what God said:
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy SORROW (itsabown: 1) pain, labour, hardship, sorrow, toil) and thy conception; in SORROW (etseb: 1) pain, hurt, toil, sorrow, labour, hardship a) pain b) hurt, offense c) toil, hardship) thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
The punishment for Eve was that the world was going to be sorrowful for her, and that she was going to bring children into a world of pain and labor and hardship. She would be eaten up with desire for her husband, but he would be her ruler. Instead of having an ordinary companion and a soulmate, which she would crave, her husband would be her master. No more close fellowship, but alienation and sorrow. Sex was God's way of ensuring the continuation of man, and feeling good helps the process along.
God used the same word for Adam's punishment:
In SORROW (itsabown: 1) pain, labour, hardship, sorrow, toil) shalt thou eat...
God did not punish Adam with labor pains, he punished him with sorrowful toil!
2007-05-24 16:58:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God made sex pleasurable so that a man and his wife could enjoy the most inimate act. This way concieving a child is just as spectacular as raising one.
2007-05-24 16:50:22 · answer #8 · answered by Gwynn T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lol thats also a question i also ask myself at times but why doesnt the male have to go through the punishment?
well i just think he wants us to let us reproduce more...
but yeah your right hehe
2007-05-24 16:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The story is fiction. Sex feels good because that is nature's way of assuring the propagation of the species. It's evolution at work.
2007-05-24 16:50:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋