Journal: Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal
Volume: RPTJ 04:2 (Spring 2018)
Article: How Did We Get Where We Are?: A Cultural And Biblical Analysis Of The Sexual Revolution
Author: George C. Scipione

---

RPTJ 4:2 (Spring 2018) p. 23

How Did We Get Where We Are?: A Cultural And Biblical Analysis Of The Sexual Revolution

George Scipione

Director of Biblical Counseling Institute
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

The substance of this paper was given at the 2015 Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary Biblical Counseling Institute Conference entitled “Sex, Sin, and Salvation: God’s Grace in a Fallen World”.

God is the great historian. He is the one who has planned history; He is the one who providentially carries out history; He is the only one with full knowledge of history.

Nonetheless, the faithful churches of the present day cannot remain silent in evaluating the present historical moment. Searching questions must be asked: Where is the church today? Where is society today? What has the church contributed to the present societal situation? In the climate of the 21st century, any faithful analysis will present a gloomy answer to these questions. As Robert Bork has observed, society finds itself as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.1 The tragedy of Sodom and Gomorrah, and in particular the tragedy of straying from Biblical sexual ethics, has forcefully reached modern-day society. Today’s culture is reeling from Satanic opposition on the issue of sexuality and people’s identities.

The evidence for this opposition is endless. The gay 90s at the end of the 1800s led to the roaring 20s and the flappers, which led to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, with its sensuality and free sex. Today, the LGBT agenda has been enforced by the 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that legalizes gay marriage. The years since that decision have only further revealed the onward movement of the progressive LGBT agenda.

What has brought this sexual transformation about? This paper seeks to answer this question in reference to the progression – or regression – in sexual morality in the Western world today.

A Heritage Given

To understand these developments, it is necessary to analyze the religious history of the western world. First of all, one must realize that the likes of the United States and Canada were never Christian nations. They are certainly not like covenanting Scotland of the 1600s. They are not even Zambia of 1991, where inaugurated president Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba proclaimed, “I declare, today, that I submit myself as president to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. I likewise submit the government and the entire nation of Zambia to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.”2

RPTJ 4:2 (Spring 2018) p. 24

visitor : : uid: ()