MARRIAGE, SEXUALITY AND HUMAN FLOURISHING

1. Write an argumentative essay addressing homosexuality and the homosexual lifestyle. Is the so-called homosexual lifestyle against God’s Moral Law? Is it possible for a human being to truly flourish while acting out on homosexual desires? In your essay, ensure that you make use of the term human flourishing (as used in the "Human Flourishing" course reading). Use at least three authors from this week’s course readings either to help make your argument or to present a view contrary to your own. Ensure that your essay is sensitive to the current controversy but nonetheless takes a definitive stand on the issue.

2. In I Corinthians 6:9-10, the apostle Paul writes, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." Is part of the reason Scripture treat sexual sins so seriously because God wants us to flourish as human beings? Write an argumentative essay arguing whether or not sexual sin is self-destructive (or destructive to one's relationships with God, spouse, family, etc.). Ensure that you make some use of human flourishing (as used in the "Human Flourishing" course reading) and the natural law in your argument, either in your own voice or to express a view contrary to your own.