In 1984, Tina Turner belted out the lyric "What's honey got to produce amongst it?" inwards a vocal that expressed confusion nigh honey in addition to physical attraction.
Most Americans are similarly confused.
Statistics exhibit that most people are involved inwards premarital and/or extramarital affairs at or in addition to thence fourth dimension during their lives.(1) But physical relationships minus honey are cipher new. King David lusted afterward Bathsheba in addition to paid a hefty toll inwards his personal in addition to political life (2 Samuel 11-12).
- Genuine honey involves friendship in addition to respect. David in addition to Bathsheba were strangers.
- Genuine honey involves honesty. David in addition to Bathsheba’s human relationship was built on deception which grew equally fourth dimension went on in addition to ended inwards murder.
- Genuine honey involves marriage. David in addition to Bathsheba were non committed to each other when they committed adultery.
It was lust.
In contrast, God's commands nigh sexual behaviour come upwards from His pump of perfect love, honesty in addition to commitment to His children. That's what Love has to produce amongst it.
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(1) God calls both of these things sin. Their Biblical names are fornication (sex amongst anyone who is non your spouse--1 Corinthians 6:9-10) in addition to adultery (sex amongst someone other than your husband when you lot are married--Hebrews 13:4). Our civilisation considers fornication (premarital sex) acceptable, exactly God's loving laws warn against it.
(2) We don’t know fully how culpable Bathsheba was inwards this relationship. There is no hint inwards Scripture that David forced himself on Bathsheba. David had an unfair payoff equally the king, exactly it is probable that Bathsheba’s lust or admiration for David kept her from refusing his advances. Perhaps David in addition to Bathsheba eventually grew to honey each other, exactly cipher inwards Scripture reveals a close, ongoing human relationship betwixt them. When David grew old, he didn’t create got a unopen human relationship amongst whatever of his wives exactly chose to conk on warm at black yesteryear sleeping amongst a immature virgin (1 Kings 1:1-3; 1 Kings 1:15-17).
