The Construction of Nomological Sexual Models and the Time of the End

Abstract

Sexuality was bestowed by God upon humankind as a gift, intended for the relationship and enjoyment between a man and a woman within the framework of a monogamous, heterosexual, and enduring marriage. Sin, however, degraded all things, including sexuality. What had originally been holy and dignified became corrupted, and this situation compelled God to establish norms to delineate the boundaries between good and evil, norms that constitute the foundation of the nomological sexual model. Toward the end of time, it will be essential to recover the constitutive elements of the protological sexual model in order to present them to twenty-first-century Adventist youth, who live within a relativistic and permissive society. For young people who do not accept “because the Bible says so” as a sufficient answer, teaching grounded in love, obedience, and a balanced conception of the body may serve as the path toward restoration.