Dr. Schaap's use of the word "intimacy" is not what is blasphemous. What is 
blasphemous is his twisting the word of God into a sexual connotation where none 
exists. 
 
Here is a quotation from his book: 
 
"Psalm 119:30 says, “I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid 
before me.” That word laid is a sexual term which literally means the same thing 
as a man laying with a woman. God was saying that God’s laws should be as 
intimate as a marriage partner in a sexual liaison." Marriage The Divine 
Intimacy, Hyles Publications 2005. Page 44 pp2 
 
Do you honestly believe that when David said, "Thy judgments have I laid before 
me," that he was referring to sex? Dr. Schaap here is twisting the English 
language. The word "lay" (present tense) is never used to refer to sex. The word 
"lie" (present tense) is what God uses to refer to sex. While the past perfect 
of the word "lie" is "lay" (see 1 Samuel 2:22), they are two completely 
different words. The word "lie" is intransitive, and the word "lay" is 
transitive. 
 
The past participle of lie IS NOT LAID! The past participle of lie is LAIN! 
 
Dr Schaap is a very smart man, and I doubt that he does not know this basic 
knowledge of English grammar. Therefore he is either intentionally being 
misleading as to the English term, or he believes that KJV is wrong in its usage 
of the word "laid" as opposed to "lain." (This would be preposterous since the 
sentence in Psalm 119:30 is transitive.) 
 
Here is another quotation from his book: 
 
"In the next verse, David gets more graphic. “I have stuck unto thy testimonies: 
O LORD, put me not to shame.” that word stuck means “the act of a man entering 
his wife”; it is sexual intercourse. God says that the Word of God should be the 
Christians lover, and nothing should be closer to him than the Bible. The Words 
of God are supposed to be the most intimate lover of his life." Marriage The 
Divine Intimacy, Hyles Publications 2005. Page 44 pp3 
 
Do you honestly believe that when David said, "I have stuck unto thy 
testimonies," that he was talking about inserting his private parts? If you 
don't think that is obscene, then what is obscene? The word "unto" does not 
denote "entrance." That would be "into." 
 
Here is another quote from the book: 
 
"When a person takes the bread during the Lord’s Supper, he is not actually 
eating Christ’s body. That person is saying, “This element represents 
something.” The person who deeply loves Christ understands that when he receives 
Christ as Saviour, it is a spiritual intercourse. A person receives the body of 
Christ. A Christian is the female gender in the spiritual realm, and God is the 
male gender of the spiritual realm. When a person receives Christ as Saviour, he 
is receiving Christ as a lover." 
 
Schaap's sentence, "A person receives the body of Christ," in the above quote is 
used to prove his point that communion is spiritual intercourse (sexual 
intercourse according to his statement about Christ being your "lover"). The 
problem with that is that in taking the Lord's supper, we are receiving the 
BROKEN body of Christ (By the way, when I was at First Baptist, communion was 
served with unbroken little squares. Perhaps this explains the lack of 
understanding people have as to what the element represents). How twisted is it 
to take an element that represents the BROKEN body of Jesus Christ on the cross 
and make it represent something sexual. This is the same as a similar quote by 
Madonna in the 1980's that was decried by preachers everywhere. 
 
Here is the definition of blasphemy: 
 
Main Entry: blas·phe·my 
Pronunciation: \ˈblas-fə-mē\ 
Function: noun 
Inflected Form(s): plural blas·phe·mies 
Date: 13th century 
 
1 a: the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God b: 
the act of claiming the attributes of deity 2: irreverence toward something 
considered sacred or inviolable