Educator Herbert W. Armstrong authored the greatest book about sex of all time, after the Bible. It is called The Missing Dimension in Sex. “Now comes the big truth!” he wrote. “Sex was designed and created in humans for purposes other than reproduction—for purposes totally foreign to animal or plant life! But the world has continued in unhappy and wretched ignorance of these glorious and God-bestowed purposes!”
Mr. Armstrong wrote this near the end of his life. He knew and lived God’s purposes for sex, and he yearned to rescue mankind from the pain and suffering that comes from using sex the wrong way. The Beautiful Truth That Would Solve The Sex ScandalsHerbert Armstrong did nothing of the sort! The first issue of this book came out in the 1964's as God Speaks Out On The New Morality. Charles Dorothy and others at Pasadena contributed to the book.
Then to dump the 1960's theme, the name was changed to The Missing Dimension in Sex in 1971.
Then, like Herbert Armstrong was prone to do, he took all credit and reissues the book under his name in 1980.
Who can forget those kinky pictures! It was the Worldwide Church of God's official book of porn for the teenagers!
Look around. It is plain to see that humans have sex for reasons other than just reproduction. Some of these reasons are perverse and should be avoided altogether, or sex scandals may result.
“Now reproduction, merely as such, is, of course, common to animals and plants, as well as humans,” Mr. Armstrong continued. “But, in humans, reproduction has a sacred and God-plane meaning not applicable to any other kind of life!”
With animals, reproduction is nothing more than reproduction. With humans, reproduction points to a marvelous spiritual parallel. Human babies are very different from animal offspring. Only humans are born as heirs of salvation—heirs of God! Marriage, family and sex have God-plane meaning!People have sex so they can become god's. Who knew! Oh, and that it might be pleasurable as something other than for reproduction. Unless of course you were Rod Meredith and Gerald Flurry and sex was dirty (most of the time).
According to Flurry, sex is essential for salvation. Forget Jesus, a good romp in the sack will bring salvation.
Humans are not animals! We can be spiritually begotten by receiving the Holy Spirit, and then spiritually born as sons of God! No animal or angel has such a potential!
Satan works diligently to hide God’s purposes for sex from the world because they point to our salvation. He wants to hide God’s plan of salvation, which is all about family.That's because you are going to marry Jesus and become a god! Woo Hoo!
“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church” (verse 32). These principles apply to physical marriage, but mainly they are about spiritual marriage (Revelation 19:7). We can marry Christ, if we obey Him today. Physical marriage and sex prepare us for that glorious future.For a book that was supposed to illustrate godly sex, the church was sure filled with some of the biggest sex fiends imaginable, starting with Herbert himself. Sex was the biggest occupier of time in the church hierarchy. From Garner Ted's G3 flying whorehouse, to Rod Meredith's frequent visits to the Le Sexxe Shoppe in Old Town Pasadena (only for research, of course), and how can we forget the wife swapping ministers. the child molesters, stalkers and rapists in the church.
Just one more sad legacy of the "One True Church" that was supposed to be practicing first century Christianity.