The Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus names and shames idolatry and perversion. Those who practice such things hate the first chapter of his letter to the church in Rome. Why is the human body spoken of in foul terms by those who practice such things? Why do those who practice such things take offence about an apostle’s clear view on this matter, written 2,000 years ago?
The answer is that perversion twists and contorts the functions of the human body, which God made in His own image and likeness. Idolatry may result from ignorance, but perversion is open defiance in the face of biblical knowledge. This is why the perfectly normal functions of the body are tagged with terms that were once reserved for verbal outbursts against hurtful injuries, or profane reactions to vicious assaults, and unexpected abuse.
Not so. Most perversity is against unexposed parts, normal functions and natural processes of the human body; and the reason for it and motive behind it is rebellion against God, its Creator. No longer in suggestive terms but openly, in graphic expressions that commonly relate to sexuality and reproduction — most revealing demonic envy directed at God’s most precious Creation — all in the form of evil puppet-like behaviour, and openly exposed in dirty acts of self-degradation.
Until recently, filthy language was mostly limited to male profanity, but lately the “F-word” and other graphic terms are bandied about by women also. a language not due to a limited knowledge that takes the form of less offensive abuse but to the acceptance of equality between sexes. In the view of what he can do, she can do. The same expressions but much worse in the hearing of those who love God and value purity in the words they speak as well as in the things they do.
During some nose-to-nose, heated verbal clashes, women speak of screwing. Men are more inclined to tell other men to do to themselves a thing that even acrobats would find impossible.
In Romans chapter One, Paul the apostle addresses those who wilfully practice idolatry or sexual perversion. But sin is sin, however practiced. As he writes in Romans 3:20, “By the Law is the knowledge of sin.” In 1 Corinthians 1:15, Paul calls himself “chief of sinners” because of his harmful acts against Christians. He persecuted them “in ignorance” but as in the army, “Ignorance is no excuse”. Paul found purity through confession to God through Jesus Christ of his sins, and the personal forgiveness that followed.
Paul encourages Timothy to “Hold fast the form [ a pattern] of sound words.” (2 Timothy 1:13) His co-worker, Onesiphorus, patterned this in his loving care for the imprisoned Apostle. The things we speak precede the way we act. “Without holiness, no one shall see the LORD.”
Soak yourself in God’s Word, the Bible, and in so doing you will develop an aversion to perversion. Are you as clean as you wish you were? As clean as you could be? God’s holiness and your spiritual cleanliness is found in the Person of His beloved Son, in whom He was well pleased.