Monday, May 21, 2007
Holiness?
What is holiness? If I'm to believe my religious upbringing, it has a lot to do with sex. Specifically not having it outside of marriage. But is that where holiness ends? The other day I saw an billboard about Fidelity Investments involvement in Darfur. It made me ask the question, "Could choosing not to have my money go to support a genocide be as act of holiness too?" If so are there other ways I can practice holiness too?
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Yes, those are eye-catching billboards, although I didn't realize it was about Fidelity.
I agree w/you completely. To make holiness all about sex is to shortchange it. Holiness, fundamentally, is about being set apart for God - devoting your talents and resources to Him. And that has as much to do with being charitable as it does with your body.
Perhaps the reason so many evangelicals concentrate on sex is because there do seem to be quite a number of verses devoted to sexuality. But to fixate on sexuality is to perpetuate the mind-body split (and privileging of the mind) that is more characteristic of western philosophy than the Bible.
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