Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!
-I Corinthians 6:15, NKJV
When I explained how a cheater violates the soul of a faithful spouse as soul rape, I had a “Christian” psychologist retort to me:
“What’s the Greek for ‘soul rape?'”
He clearly did not like how seriously my concept portrayed the evil of adultery. Maybe it was convicting for him? So, his way of dismissing this theological concept was to mock it as having no basis in the original texts. That is the point about asking about the “Greek.”
This encounter is precisely why I must continue this ministry and produce the book.
A trained “Christian” mental health provider mocked as opposed to attempt to understand the trauma of adultery as experienced by faithful spouses. He looked for ways to dismiss as opposed to understand.
And I am not exactly surprised.
If you agree with the spiritual truth that adultery is soul rape, then you are morally obligated to condemn it and support the victims. When they coddle an adulterous spouse, they are coddling a soul rapist. That is a tough pill for many to swallow. But that does not make it any less true.
Adultery as soul rape is a real buzzkill if you believe victims are partially to blame for marital infidelity.
Christians need to understand a cheater makes the affair partner one with their spouse’s soul against their will–i.e. it is soul rape. This is what I Corinthians 6:15 illustrates.
Like it or not, Christian leaders refusing to see this spiritual truth are merely denying reality.
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*A version of this post ran previously.
