My Thoughts on Proverbs 5:11-14 and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Science is a very old subject lie history and mathematics. Reading the Bible always gets me to think about how science and math were taught back in their days. One interesting passage in Proverbs is Proverbs 5:11. It says that time will come when you will mourn at last when your flesh and your body are consumed. The New International Version (NIV) uses the term "are spent" over "are consumed". The English Standard Version (ESV) still uses consumed. I prefer to use consumed instead of spent in the translations. The New Living Translation (NLT) gets a bit more accurate by saying "disease consumes your body". Proverbs 5 also relates to sexual immorality and the strange woman. All these start to link into high school biology? Doesn't it make you think of sexually transmitted diseases?

I'm noticing how the sex industry sells. The women don't have to be stunningly beautiful. Some of the strange women I see in the bus terminals are as ugly or as pretty as they can get. What they have all in common is their willingness to sell their bodies for money. A beautiful woman without discretion does exist. However, any woman without discretion regardless of appearance will certainly lead to destruction. The rise of prostitution always causes an increase of rising in infidelities and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). A lot of sexual diseases were common in the pagan worlds because temple prostitution was part of the norm of the people. A lot of pagan civilizations also worshiped sex. Corinth also had the worship of the penis which in itself worships the creation over the Creator.

The chart above (please click to enlarge) will show you different types of STDs. You definitely don't want to have them near you. Pictures of actual patients would be best saved for medical websites. You can see how these are indeed not really pleasant. Sure, a vaccine for HPV is available but can you have vaccines for AIDS? Until now, there's still no cure for AIDS. The cost for treatment for life prolongment is very expensive. Is it really worth it to go out there and be sexually promiscuous? I'm not saying that everyone infected has been promiscuous. Sometimes, some people can get infected by handling the diseased bodies or clothes of such people. It just shows that when sin happens - it will inevitably hurt not just the doer but also innocent bystanders. I really do feel sorry whenever doctors have to take extra precautions in handling patients who have such diseases. Sinful people are making the lives of doctors even more stressful than it should be. I can't imagine the high level of contamination a corpse of a person who died from STD would have in contrast to a person who died of other causes. 

Verses 12-14 will tell you that such people who get STD as a result of their actions hated instruction. It's very common to observe how teenagers can be sexually promiscuous. The worse happens when schools allow teenagers to date when they're not even biologically mature. Others have it when they leave home at age 18 and start to enjoy their newfound freedom. America may have people at age 18 leaving their homes believing the consequences aren't there. Too many Americans aren't taught well before they become independent of their parents. It really doesn't help that some college students tend to abuse that freedom by engaging in the sex trade either as prostitutes, paramours, and gigolos. They really want to celebrate the freedom of not having their high school teachers and parents on their backs. The big issue is when they realize that warnings about not engaging in such acts were for their own good.

Fortunately, even sexual sins can be forgiven. I don't buy for a second of Steven Anderson's heresy that homosexuals are beyond repentance. 1 Corinthians 6:11 has Paul telling the Corinthians that such were some of them. People who have committed these sexual sins are not beyond forgiveness. The Law can only protect us by showing us right and wrong but not save us. The Law fortunately leads to the Savior and fulfiller of the Law, the Lord Jesus Christ. Even sexually immoral people can be forgiven if they let Jesus forgive them.