title: Venus and Virtue: Celebrating Sex and Seeking Sanctification
author: Jerry L. Walls
description: David Baggett is Professor of Philosophy in the Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. Jeremy Neill is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University. Jerry L. Walls is a Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University.
zlib_text: Sexual Expression and Responsibility 
  Delamer Duverus 
   
  Advanced cultures live by a “code of honor” which has as its basis reverence for all life and life 
  forms. Everything and everyone has Reason for Being for God does not create anything out of vanity. 
  This is why we honor all that come into our lives and serve it to the best of our ability. This is serving 
  God. 
  Increasingly, Humanity lives little by honor. Your culture presently is geared toward coercion and “to 
  the victor go the spoils.” The spirit of competition is greater than the spirit of cooperation and to a great 
  extent your planet is simply a marketplace where everything is a commodity. From our vantage point, 
  Humanity is at the brink of becoming a commodity as well. However, Humanity is the victim to another 
  mind which continually puts Humanity in this frame of mind of projected fear, hate, shame, greed, lust, 
  guilt and prejudice, hoping Humanity will accepts these Seven Deadly Sins and use them against each 
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