Faith Isn’t the Enemy of Intimacy—It’s the Key

Faith Isn’t the Enemy of Intimacy—It’s the Key

Download Print-Friendly Version In the very first chapter of the first book in the Bible, God commanded Adam and Eve, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Genesis 1:28). Religion has always informed the meanings and purposes of sex, but has not limited sex to procreation. In the second chapter of Genesis, God also commanded our first parents to “be[come] one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). “In the beginning,” the divine plan included hav…