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Chapter 14

I began this series having discerned homosexuality to be an issue that Yahweh would have me to
address with His people. The e-mail responses I have received thus far have revealed that this
series has been timely, insightful, and challenging to many who read these posts. One of the
remaining issues I want to address before wrapping up this series may be described as “intimate
union.”

Mankind is familiar with the intimate physical union of the man and woman. The sexual union is
the focus of television shows, movies, romance novels, pornography, advertising, etc.. The world
is being flooded with messages related to sexual union (most of them immoral), but it knows
almost nothing about intimate union at other levels. Mankind was created to be a tri-part being as
the following Scripture declares.

I Thessalonians 5:23
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body
be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Yahshua Christ.

This series has focused on homosexuality, which is a perversion of intimate union at the physical
(bodily) level. To understand how homosexuality deviates from Yahweh’s design for creation,
and why the Bible describes it as “unnatural,” “depraved,” “gross immorality,” an
“abomination,” and going after “strange flesh,” it would be helpful to understand Yahweh’s
design for intimate union at the level of spirit, soul, and body. Let us begin by looking at some
Scriptures that refer to intimate union.

The apostle Paul, writing to the church of Corinth, speaks of the mysterious parallels between the
physical union of a man and his wife and the spiritual union of Christ and the church.

I Corinthians 6:16-20
Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a harlot is one body with her? For He says,
"The two will become one flesh." But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with
Him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral
man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit