This complete absence of sexual reference to God and to any sexual activity in the process of creation means that, biblically speaking, sex is a part of the created world but it is not a part of ultimate reality. This view is unique to biblical faith, and is of the utmost importance. If we for any reason, conscious or unconscious, suggest that sexuality is a part of ultimate reality, we will be delivered over to an understanding of reality that has devastating implications. The reason is that the Bible presents a fundamentally different world view from that of the neighboring religions. Apart from the Hebrew religion and its daughters, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, the world view which characterizes every one of the other religions is, that of continuity.
Continuity sees all things, visible and invisible, as continuous with one another.
It stresses that things which appear similar are in fact identical. Thus, the raindrop and the ocean are one and the same. By the same token, an image of a person bearing a nail paring or a hair of that person, is the same as the person. The point of view of continuity is, of course, absolutely necessary for rituals which depend upon sympathetic magic to work. On the other hand, if there is a discontinuity between me and the image of me, then there is no reason to believe that anything done to the image will necessarily happen to me.