Our culture says that all sexual expression and desire is good and right, as long as there is consent. If you feel it, do it! So we conclude, “I feel these desires sincerely. I didn’t ask for them, therefore they must be from God. God doesn’t make mistakes.” This is just a different way of shifting the burden to God. Saying that these desires are from God simply because they exist is a confusion between God’s perfect will—what he desires actively for humanity—and God’s permissive will: that which he allows given the circumstances of redemptive history. He is clear throughout Scripture that our
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