Heritage Presbyterian Church Adult Sunday School

1. P e t e r J o n e s
Director of truthXchange
A Worldview & Culture Teaching Series by Ligonier Ministries
Adult Sunday School
Summer 2019

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The Big Question
How can we make sense of the
breakneck spiritual and social changes
happening right now in our culture?
and
How should Christians respond?

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Lessons in the Series
1. Explaining Modern
Culture
2. The Rise & Fall of
Secular Humanism
3. Carl Jung’s Alternative
Spirituality
4. Paganism in the
Shadows
5. Paganism in the
Spotlight
6. Pagan Sexuality
7. From Personal
Spirituality to
Worldview
8. Where Is Society
Headed?
9. Unbiblical Responses
10.Articulating a Biblical
Worldview
11.Living in Holiness
12.Thinking with a
Discerning Mind

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Lesson Introduction
• Together with the radical spiritual changes that took
place in the 1960s, there was a sexual revolution
• Christian notions of sexuality were jettisoned in favor
of pagan ideals that sought to eliminate gender
distinctions and any idea of right or wrong with
regard to sexuality
• In this lecture, you will see the origin, nature, and
character of this sexual revolution, and you will
better understand why it has and continues to be
such a powerful force in modern culture

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Scripture Reading
• For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable
passions. For their women exchanged natural
relations for those that are contrary to nature; and
the men likewise gave up natural relations with
women and were consumed with passion for one
another, men committing shameless acts with men
and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their
error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do
what ought not to be done… For those who are self-
seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey
unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There
will be tribulation and distress for every human being
who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek.
Romans 1:26-28; 2:8-9

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Teaching Objectives
1. To explain the liberation of sexuality that
occurred during the twentieth century
2. To show how sexual liberation has been
promoted by the most influential in society
3. To demonstrate the radical contrast
between pagan oneist and Christian twoist
views of sexuality

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Watch Lecture 6

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A Sexual Tsunami
• Experimentation with radical sexual activities based
on Jung’s theories of the human being as made up of
both an animus (the male element) and the anima
(the female element)
• Jung and his followers were determined to have “the
courage to sin” for our psychological and spiritual
health
• Jung and his followers realized the challenge to bring
about the spiritual and sexual liberation they were
already enjoying into a culture that was still under
the influence of Christian public morality
“The ethical problem of sexual freedom is really enormous
and worth the sweat of all noble souls. But 2000 years of
Christianity can only be replaced by something equivalent, an
irresistible mass movement.” ~ Carl Jung

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Liberated Heterosexuality
• The Christian notion of sexual restraint out of respect
for creational boundaries—and the Creator’s revealed
will—became identified as psychologically repressive
and unhealthy
• The exploration and satisfaction of sexual desires
began to be seen as intrinsic to one’s personal
identity and growth
• Insistence on the liberating power of fantasy as the
tool to disintegrate the whole social structure
organized around the monogamic and patriarchal
family
• Idea of unlimited sex as a human right
• Alfred Kinsey, sex researcher
• Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine

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Liberated Homosexuality
• A building revolution encapsulated in the Gay Liberation
Front Manifesto
“Equality is never going to be enough; what is needed is a total
social revolution, a complete reordering of civilization.
Reform…cannot change the deep-down attitude of straight
people that homosexuality is at best inferior to their own way of
life, at worst a sickening perversion. It will take more than
reform to change this attitude, because it is rooted in our
society’s most basic institution—the Patriarchal Family.”
• Intention to establish homosexuals as a victimized
minority in order to
• “convert the average American’s emotion, mind and will
through a planned psychological attack in the form of
propaganda fed to the nation via the media…using the
mechanism of prejudice to our own ends—using the very
processes that made America hate us to turn their hatred into
warm regard.” ~ Kirk & Johnson, After the Ball

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Liberated Homosexuality
“If we do our job right, we’re going to raise a generation of kids
who do not believe the claims of the religious right.” ~ Gay
Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN), 1999 conference
• Strategy to shift public opinions is a stunning success
• Support gays and lesbians as a victimized minority
• Shame biblical Christians as bigoted and intolerant
• (As of 2014) Speed of attitude changes toward homosexuality
• Agree gay couples should be allowed to marry
• 12% (1988), 28% (1996), 52% (2013), ?? (2019)
• Accept homosexuality as normal, approving of marriage equality
• 74% (those born between 1980-2000)
• 80% (Catholic students)
• 44% (young evangelicals)

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Sexuality Without
Boundaries
• Intersexual or hermaphrodite
• Transsexual
• Transvestite
• Drag queen and king
• Transgenderist or bigenderist
• Androgyne
• Heterosexual
• Homosexual
• Bisexual
• Fetish people
• Autoerotic
• Asexual
• Pansexual
• Pedophile
• Queer theory insists that all sexual behaviors and identities,
and all categories of normative and deviant sexualities, are
social constructs, rejecting the idea that sexuality is
determined by biology or judged by eternal standards of
morality and truth. A proposed non-hierarchical paradigm:

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Oneist Spirituality &
Sexuality
• The sexual agenda of Hollywood and the media is just a
visible symbol of a powerful, century-long deconstruction of
the Christian worldview and its replacement with a pagan
Oneist cosmology
• Sexuality is a (the?) sacrament of Oneist spirituality, most
purely embodied in the ideal of androgyny—the conflation of
male and female genders in one person
• “The androgyne participates consciously in the evolutionary
process, redesigning the individual…society and…planet.” ~ June
Singer, Androgyny: Toward a New Theory of Sexuality
• Androgynous priests were associated with the Sumerian cult
of Ishtar, the Canaanite cult of Anat, and the Roman-era cult
of Cybele
• “The archetype of androgyny appears in us as an innate sense
of…and witness to…the primordial cosmic unity—that it, it is the
sacrament of monism [i.e., Oneism], functioning to erase
distinction…[This was] nearly totally expunged from the Judeo-
Christian tradition.” ~ June Singer

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Why Do We Celebrate?
• Why do we openly celebrate what we would have
shamed in previous generations?
• The change in our attitudes is best explained by the
direct expression of the resurgence of an ancient, yet
still powerful, Oneist worldview behind many of
today’s excesses
• This is a contrary worldview, with its close
connection between spirituality and sexuality, that
the Bible understands very well

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Biblical Sexuality &
Spirituality
• Sexual sin is indeed an issue of immoral behavior
• But it is even more an expression of a religious
commitment, even if many do not realize it
• Sexual inversion of the created order is an embodied
manifestation of Oneist worship and cosmology
• Homosexual behavior is religious, described clearly in
Romans 1:26-27 as the worship of creation in place of
the worship of God the Creator
• Sexuality and spirituality inevitably meet; they are
not watertight compartments of human reality, but
are intertwined aspects of the image of God

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Mark These Words
• If in your heart and mind you collapse God and
creation, good and evil, you will eventually collapse
male and female in a physical expression of your
religious reality, and—in good Jungian thinking—
liberate your subconscious fantasies
• If you view marriage as primarily about mutual love
and voluntary commitment, undergirded by personal
expression and self-affirmation, you have no inherent
limit on what, who, or how many can be married—for
why limit an important aspect of human self-
realization to one man and woman, or to only two
consenting adults?

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Study Question Answers
1. The next step in the liberation of sexuality is to
establish the dominance of the female sex. False
2. Jung’s followers argued that Christian notions of sexual
constraint were harmful to one’s psychological health.
3. Queer theory insists that the most fulfilling relationships
are homosexual in nature. True
4. Mircea Eliade showed that throughout time and space,
leaders of pagan cults are often homosexual shamans.
5. Jung believed that doing evil could have a beneficial
effect on the personality by freeing the psyche from
one-sidedness and putting one back in touch with one’s
instinctual being. True

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Discussion Questions
1. Many today claim that Christian ideas of sexual
restraint are psychologically damaging. How can
Christians respond to such claims? How can they
challenge those who have opposing opinions on
sexuality?
2. Dr. Jones argues that pagan notions of sexuality have
been promoted in many sectors of modern culture.
Where have you seen this to be especially the case?
What is an appropriate Christian response?
3. How does the pagan view of sexuality relate to the
pagan view of all reality?
4. Explain the modern push for same-sex marriage in
light of the material from this lecture.

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Next Lesson
The new humanity, trusted to save us, is based on the
Lie. To this seductive falsehood our modern culture is
being given over for its inevitable undoing, both present
and future (Rom 1:28; 2:8-9).

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Resources by Peter Jones
• Only Two Religions (study guide)
• Only Two Religions (evangelism tool)
• truthxchange.com (website)
• heritage-pca.org (website)
• The Other Worldview (book)
• The Pagan Heart of Today’s Culture
(booklet)