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Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Counter-Cultural

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Naked

03 One of Two Gifts

04 Incredible Sex

05 Marital Sexuality: Oneness

06 Marital Sexuality: Twoness

07 Marital Sexuality: Sameness of Nature

08 Marital Sexuality: Difference

09 Interconnectedness

10 Pre-Marital Sexuality

11 When Things Go Wrong

12 Beyond Sexuality

13 Purity

There's something called scripts that are floating all around.

They dictate what we say and how we sit and how we present ourselves, even on the screen, on this episode of Inverse.

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

Hey friends, my name is Justin Kim and you're watching Inverse and we are here in the studio with my friends Jonathan, Kelly and Israel And on this quarter, we are talking about the topic of biblical sexuality The subject matter is a bit sensitive So if you have minors in the area or within your Washington vicinity, we want to give you a heads up and that viewer discretion is advised.

Are you excited to talk about this topic?

I know this is a very sensitive topic, but the Bible does talk a lot about sexuality and we want to invite you to go to inversebible.org and you can download and get the Bible study guides.

We have previous quarters on different books of the Bible on different topics and we believe that this topic is 1 that is very important for our generation today.

So, we want to invite you to go to that website.

We'll have a prayer and Israel if you can pray for us and we'll get into our subject today.

Father in Heaven, thank You for the opportunity that we have to study your word.

And specifically this topic, Father, we want to ask your presence to be with us, to guide us, in Jesus' name, amen.

Let's go to Romans chapter 12, verses 1 and 2.

And, Callie, if you can read that for us.

I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Now we are talking about this topic of sexuality And I don't know, I get excited because the Bible talks about sexuality and we're going to address this.

But for some people, these 2 topics are kind of like, what?

I know you're probably watching out there and you're either like, yay, we're talking about this.

Why is that discomfort there when it comes to biblical, spiritual, religious, and theology and the Bible, and then when it comes to this other world?

Well, the Bible, as we just read here, calls us to a holy life.

And historically, sexuality and holiness have always been kind of presented as 2 things that are opposite of each other.

Sex has been presented often as this dirty thing, this thing we don't talk about, and there's shame involved, and all these things that we feel uncomfortable talking about.

And so there has been this disconnect really that the idea that everything has to do with the physical is not as important as the spiritual.

And religion is in your mind, faith is in your mind, and sexuality, that's your body, and even, you know, some religious denominations and so on, they will still promote this idea that sexuality is something that is lower and should not be so much focused on, it's not as important as the spiritual.

So let's let's back up a little we're gonna get there and and definitely definitely true that there's all these scripts what they call these are ideas these are things floating around so Israel tell me a bit more about these scripts.

Actual little pieces of fortune cookies flying around in the sky or what are they?

I think as societies, we just have we normally have these codes by which we function, these societal values.

And in some cultures, for example, it'll say that if you're a male, then you have this role, this script to play.

If you're a female, you have this kind of script that you must follow.

And these are really values that society places upon us as human beings.

And certainly sexuality is 1 of those scripts.

It tells us how it is that we should function.

What are things that are okay for us to do?

What are things that are not okay for us to do?

I think what's interesting too about scripts is it even dictates the smallest parts of our lives.

So like a script that I've learned in my home is you don't start eating your meal at a restaurant or at home unless everyone has food.

But there are, I go to other people's homes and the host can be offended if you don't start eating as soon as they give you food.

But those are different scripts and different ways that have influenced my behavior.

So I love you mentioned cultural mores and values and you mentioned codes and dictating roles that we play in society.

They also can impact like me talking with my hands or maybe me not talking with my hands, how we sit, even the clothes like this is appropriate.

I don't know fashion-wise, it is tolerable for our day and age, but maybe not for a hundred or 500 years ago.

How we interact in every single way, not just the abstract stuff, but also the very concrete things.

You know, there's also these massive scripts that are above entire societies.

You know, I moved from Europe to the United States and then a huge script in the United States is the idea of the American dream, right?

And like, you know, you go to college, you get married, you buy a house.

White picket fence, you know, all these things that you're supposed to do.

This is the script you're supposed to follow or at least strive after.

And that was quite new to me coming from the European context where it's okay to rent a little apartment for your entire life and you don't have to have a house, etc., etc.

So I thought that was something that was quite interesting and now that I've lived here for a couple years I can tell that that script definitely has affected me because you start thinking this way, but I still need to do this and make sure my retirement and da da da da da.

So some of these are definitely in the forefront of your brain, but you're saying there's some that are kind of like presuppositional there in the back of your brain.

Well they ultimately shape entirely who you are because now Jonathan is living the American dream more than I am.

It affects who we are, I think, at the very core of our being.

And you have these values, these scripts that are floating around.

You also have these mechanisms of art like movies and media and music and they capture these Floating around things and they put it into music or movie video form and then as you say, it's the American dream But because of the cultural power of North America these values maybe not in Europe and not in Austria, but the rest of the world, wants to live like the values that America has projected on them.

Yeah, and these groups are communicated, as you said, through stories, which is really powerful.

And it has, And as you said, it has affected the entire world because people want to follow the North American way, et cetera, et cetera.

So it's really, when you think about it, it's kind of scary because it makes you a little uncomfortable.

Like, am I controlling my own life or am I being controlled by the scripts that other people have, you know, implanted into me?

Yeah, even with, I mean, just the response to him, even if you're gonna be like, I'm not gonna abide by any script, you have to abide by some script to go against that script.

And I think it's, I also just like the usage of the word script here because I think sometimes we can say, oh, it's the same thing as subliminal messaging.

Because subliminal messaging, well, it's usually subliminal.

But there are some scripts that are subliminal, like maybe your family doesn't say, like I can't, well actually recently that did happen.

Someone in my family told my youngest brother like you don't eat until everyone has gotten their food because he wasn't operating by the script.

But before that interaction, I'd heard no 1 say that.

And so this is different though, because you can get it explicitly from movies and different things like that.

Some of these are genetically passed down, not genetically in our bodies, but through the family upbringing and education, they are passed down implicitly.

You're just like, what is everyone doing?

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Inverse, 3rd Quarter 2021: Sexuality

01 Counter-Cultural

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07 Marital Sexuality: Sameness of Nature

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02 Naked

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09 Interconnectedness

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03 One of Two Gifts

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13 Purity

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12 Beyond Sexuality

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04 Incredible Sex

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08 Marital Sexuality: Difference

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