Sexual Immorality and Apostacy

I saw a few folks talking about this, so I thought I would try to put out my own attempt at stating the relation between apostasy and sexual immorality, which is very common in our day.

Our regard for God - and those created in His image, by extension - and obedience to His Law, stand in inseparable relation to one another. The Law is that which proceeds from a holy personal God, as an expression of His perfect and unchangeable character and attributes. And so when we violate His Law, we begin to treat Him and those made in His image as common, and not sacred. It’s the process of demystification, of desacralization, which leads to the collapse of families, churches, cultures and societies. We no longer see God as a holy person to be regarded as worthy of our worship, and we no longer see or treat each other as persons made in the image of the holy God. We consequently begin to see and treat each other as objects for our own ends.

That our God and our neighbor are both holy and personal beings are equally key in this.

This is how sexual immorality leads to unbelief in those we might formerly have seen as the strongest believers we’ve known.

This is also why antinomianism is impossible in those truly born again. Salvation and obedience are always found together.