A Skeptic's Guide to Faith

Accidentally bought ' a book titled Designer Sex, by Philip Yancey', only to realise it was a pamphlet based on a chapter extracted from this book. There are three parts to this book, What are we missing, , Signs of Disorder and Two worlds.

          What are We Missing? 

1. Life in Part 
2. A Tug between Two Worlds
3. Paying Attention
4. God Loveth Adverbs
5. Designer Sex
   The very word sex comes from a Latin verb that means to cut off or sever, and sexual impulses drive us to unite, to restore somehow the union that has been severed. Freud diagnosed the deep pain within as a longing for a union with a parent; Jung diagnosed a longing for union with the opposite sex. The Christian sees a deeper longing, for union with the God who created us. Sex prefigures that union by bringing together body and soul in a kind of wholeness not other wise known.to acknowledge sex as a gift of God that could become a form of homage, even praise. The bible uses explicit romantic images to describe God's love for us; what we feel in passing for one person, God feels eternally for many.
   
   .. no human longing is more powerful, more difficult to rein in. The strongest oaths are straw to the fire i' the blood.' say Shakespeare. Lust is a serious burden. You must resist it and fight against it. But after you have overcome it through prayer, lust will have caused you to pray more and grow in faith. A calculated choice, not against pleasure, but against one particular kind in determined pursuit of another.
   
   .. God created sex. Having studied anatomy, I marvel at God labouring over the physiology of sex; the soft parts, the moist parts, the millions of nerve cells sensitive to pressure and pain yet also capable of producing pleasure, the intricacies of erectile tissue, the economical and ironical combination of organs for secretion and reproduction, the blending of visual appeal and mechanical design. As the zoologists remind us, in comparison with every other species the human is bountifully endowed.
   
   A connected view of life assumes this is God's world, and that despite its fractured state, clues of its original design remain. When I experience desire, I need not flinch in guilt as if something unnatural has happened. rather I should follow the desire to its source, in search of God's original intent.'
   
   Signs of Disorder
   
6.  Out or Order
7. A Word Unsaid
8. The Good Life
9. The Gift of Guilt
   
   Two Worlds
   
10. Why Believe?
11. Earth Matters
12. Eyes of Faith
13. Practicing the Existence of God
14. Stereoscopic Visoin