a human level there is much to understand the importance, necessity and meaning of the law of God concerning human sexuality. It is very important that you come to understand it because we are rational beings and robots, but God does not want children to know why things are done.
Anyway you can not forget your faithfulness to God also passes in this issue: accept and live his teachings and law. The issue is with God, not things the Church says ... is good that you come to understand the reasons for the law of God, but beyond the understanding is a matter of personal loyalty to God.
Reject the will of God in sexual infidelity does not represent less than reject their presence in the Eucharist and the divinity of Jesus Christ. Reject his law on this issue is to reject its plan of salvation and the same .
anyone thought of the moral law might say "why do I have to ..." or "does not convince me," I do not like " "Too demanding", "not fashionable" ... I would be facing the problem very well as the starting point is "God asks me this," and the second step: "we will try to live it and understand it, asking God for help. " This order will come to understand, to live it and enjoy it (doing what God wants full life). In the reverse, almost never ... because I'm taking the place of God, deciding for myself what is good and what is bad.
So even when you do not understand or do not convince reasons ... there is a very important reason: "God willing", and that reason is the most important and definitive. And this is precisely the faith: trusting in God. We accept his word or not accept it.
On the other hand, think about slowly, dispassionately, you'll understand. It just takes an open mind and you're willing to change your lifestyle if they show the truth ... For God is most reasonable that there is: it's infinite wisdom and perfect. Also want the best: it is infinitely good. And you can not go wrong. And besides, the day we die we will be judged according to law ... not according to our opinions. It is clear that we do God a favor when we accept and live His law ...
And God what to do with sex?
Much
...
Based on the information that God created man essentially gendered, so that human beings exist only as male or female, is seen to be something important in God's creative plan.
The premise before any consideration is that God created sex and gave the device's features. He gave up two unique qualities: to be the instrument to create new human beings and to unite two people so that they end up being just a
... Look if you will have to do, which is present creating an immortal soul every time an act sexual is fruitful. So much importance was attributed to wanted man take care of him as a great treasure. To use it exclusively, because the mutual self-giving love that is tied or there is exclusive or not, that simple.
Since God created sex, it is reasonable to assume that knows what is the best way to live, what damages it, etc.
Is God a killjoy?
is a sin, but can not be bad!
There are people who accept the authority of the Church and, therefore, assume that the use of sex outside marriage is sin. So go to confession when they screw up and experience Joy to recover the grace of God. However, if you ask some of them if they have done is bad in itself, a human level, they tell you with absolute certainty that no, how will it be bad if everyone is made and accepted and also is fun, you have a good. The only problem would be further driven home by the law of God.
not understand why it is "forbidden", they see you have something bad in itself. If we ask why is bad, the only answer is because it is sin. And why is sin? "Because God forbids ."
"So ... you think is not bad, I say [i] .
-No.
- But is it sin?
"Yes.
- Do you realize what you're saying? If not bad, why is a sin?
"Because God forbid.
"So that's good, but God forbid.
"Yes.
"Then God is evil.
appears surprised. And they ask:
"Not possible, right? It does not seem very logical.
-No. If you do that is good in the human order can not be sin. Or, God forbid you be an evil for something so funny that he himself created.
"Then do not understand anything. Why is it bad? How can it be bad if everyone else does and says is good?
"If something is bad is because it ruins a good thing. Therefore, to understand why it is bad you have to understand what is good spoiling.
Then comes the time to explain what the role and meaning of sexuality in the whole person. Only positive means explaining what the reason for the negative.
the end, do not even need to draw the conclusions: the draw them by themselves:
"Then this I do is wrong, because it breaks another.
Commandments and the protection of the person
God so loved His creatures who wanted to protect their most important values \u200b\u200bto the negative precepts of the Decalogue: some commandments that do not support exceptions, precisely because they protect rights and fundamental human values.
Life: "You shall not kill" ... God tells others that you can kill me or offend me or hurt me ... because I'm worth a lot. It is not a fad that others can kill me ... is to defend the greatness of human life.
Sex, family, love, "Do not commit adultery," "not covet your neighbor's wife." God wants to protect love, children, prevent the person is used, protect the harmony and stability of the family ...
tangible property "shall not steal" "do not covet." Fundamental to the safety, harmony between people, tranquility, defending private property.
Trust among men: "Do not bear false witness or lie." Is essential for communication between people, so you can be trusted, that we may live.
If you study some theology of marriage, you will realize that Christ has also raised human sexuality to the dignity of a sacrament and therefore a path to holiness. The "problem" with sex is not concerned about something bad that should be avoided, but something too large, divine, sacred ... because it is intrinsically related to the self-giving love and the origin of life. Sacred and profane is a sacrilege.
The "rules" are not arbitrary ...
So that what is wrong, it is not because a pope has been raised in a bad mood one morning and been refused.
The reason that something is wrong is that God has forbidden only to test our obedience. If anyone thinks well conclude that we could have sent the opposite of those who sent us ... and then, if they have been made, would kill it, steal it would be worthwhile, be true would be a sin and infidelity deserves heaven.
But things are not so. God has a coherent project. Created man with a concrete nature, so to reach its fullness and perfection have to act a certain way, according to that nature you have.
If you eat poison man dies, but not because God has provided so whimsically, as if death were a punishment for disobeying his order not to eat poison. It dies because God created man so that there are some good foods for your body and other ill: that harm. This depends on chemical and biological laws of digestion and nutrition that God "set" in your body. We say "put" in the sense that it works: you are enrolled in the same physical nature as created by God.
The same goes for moral laws, which are those that lead to the fullness of perfection and therefore happiness.
The reason hedonistic vision of sexuality
As they teach you a lot of media about sex it all: before or after marriage, even without marriage, alone or with others or other, no matter what you do and with whom you do it: all that I meet is valid. But have you ever stopped to think why it all?
The answer is simple: because sex makes no sense.
Hedonism is a reductionism: it reduces man to his body, ignoring its spirit. No more. What is man? A piece of meat, period. No act, no gesture, nothing the man does have a meaning that goes beyond the corporeal. Nothing has a spiritual sense, and therefore human, simply because there is no spirit. Hence there is a deep sense of anything. Body Only, only capacity for pleasure. And nothing else.
So sexuality is understood and considered mere physicality. Disconnected from spirit, and therefore of love ... (spiritual activity of the will ...). Hence the call mere love of physical union, as if love were something purely carnal ... identified with the pleasure.
The "problem" is that the human sex animal sex is different. In animals is only a physical union ... and there can be more since they are only one body, stays there all. The man-hence his greatness, is much more than a piece of meat, and sexuality is a very deep meaning, express love, which reaches the depths of his being.
(Please do not call it love the pleasure of having fun with someone, love is something else!).
The trivialization of sex is tragic for the sex itself.
trivialize it means degrading. Reduce in value. Empty of meaning.
big thing, along with the origin of life and increased delivery possible between two beings, reduced to playing selfish pleasure, in which a person uses another to "get" the whole pleasure juice can ...
If sex is worthless, inconsequential , banal ... then use or abuse offers no problem. So there are no rules, with whoever you want, any way you like, whatever ...: premarital, extramarital, adulterous, homosexual ...
The problem begins when one considers sex as something big. The more you value it, the more he cares, is given a higher meaning, it affects the person most intimately ...
paradox: the more value sex and love, will be more demanding
Christianity has never considered sex as a really muddy, filthy, sinful in itself. Christian morality is challenging precisely because of the greatness attributed to sexuality. Aspire to better. Cree man is fully capable of love, really. I hope we can have a love faithful, exclusive, total, without deception or betrayal. It may be possible. why aspire to better. We do not settle for less. Although it costs. Worth paying the price of greatness.
The moral of "anything goes" is based on that sex has no value. Is trivial, no personal connotations. And that destroys the sex itself, degrades the person.
what sex has to do with marriage?
When thinking about sex, do not stay on a "permission" to make things pleasant. Can or can not? Is it a sin? How far can it? Andá further ... looking for true love.
is not permissions. Marriage is not a license to have sex.
Marriage does something amazing: two people joined in a unity of life "are no longer two but one flesh." When unite sexually, the union body expression of the unity that both are.
There is a fundamental difference between the spouses before and after marriage, before they were two who want to be one, then they are one. Before you have the desire to belong, then they belong. Marriage is not a role: it is an existential reality. Whoever understands this means a (pre-marital sex, divorce, contraception, faith, adultery, homosexuality ...). Who do not understand do not understand anything. So easy.
Once married are one flesh: the largest possible union. Image of the union of Christ and his Church (head and body).
not any "use" of sex is human . God wants sex to be lived in a truly human , ie integrated in the whole person: the only way will be an expression of knowledge and love-the highest of the individual. Two possibilities: either disconnected from the spiritual (mere expression of pleasure, is considered a mere game, played the trick): it is extremely selfish, using a person for their own enjoyment (instrumentalize) or profound expression person. Pleasure is the explosion body of the happiness of love of two people who are one. Is a consequence of the greatness that is done: the giving of two people.
Pretender use of sexuality without being married is a sham, a scam, a hoax. It's like trying to celebrate Mass before ordination would be a travesty, not even the day before the ordination, for the simple reason that the priest could not consecrate. The reality is different, very different.
Love is not love if it goes against the Love ...
either sex is not love.
Americans make surveys for all. Who enjoy sex more? Although surprised, the marriage with a traditional view of marriage. Why? Obvious: because sex is something that goes beyond pleasure: when you love, when expressed as a total surrender, sincere gift of himself ... the satisfaction is much higher. How big is that sex is not pleasure, is love.
is not a question of techniques ... but we should not conclude that prostitutes are the happiest people on earth ... and the reality is quite the opposite ...
It's about love on the extent real love, sex is full, rich, full. Otherwise it's just a selfish satisfaction that can not fill and satisfy, and leaves a bitter taste ...
is clear that sex is essentially about love. Without reference to love is pure prostitution. However, if you have a lot to do with love, has much to do with God. Because God is love (1 John 4.8).
If keeping His commandments is the most basic form of love, the most elementary logic concludes that violate his commandments can never be a way of loving.
silly fool not pretend. Do not try to have fun against Love All I would get it offend your Creator and destroy your capacity to love.
Why has such an impact on the spiritual life?
There is a very close relationship between love of God and the use of one's sexuality.
If we see from the sociological point of view, on the side of the spiritual consequences of impurity: what do you think is the main cause of separation from God? Competing pride, sloth and sensuality. No mistake ... A high percentage of people who stop practicing their faith ... do it for purity problems.
This is not accidental: The reason is that little of both God separated impurity.
The lack of purity blind to spiritual things. St. Paul put it well over two thousand years: "the natural man does not understand the things of the spirit of God are foolishness to him" (1 Cor 2.14). And before Jesus had proclaimed: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." The impurity blind to see God. When a person who does not live their sexuality orderly says, "I do not see", "not understand" ... do not be surprised: it is a cause-effect relationship. You lose interiority: sensitivity to the spiritual. Then one bored the things of God, not "feel" anything Mass or in prayer. Has brutalized the soul the same thing happens to a person humanly rough: can not understand art.
also produces a growing dependence: disordered sexuality goes wild: it is addictive and progressive. Enslave (cf. 2 Pet 2.18 to 20).
From what is that, as is clear in Sacred Scripture impurity is absolutely incompatible with the Christian life . "For meat has desires against the spirit , and the spirit against the flesh, as being antagonistic to each other. (...) However, the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (...) drunkenness, orgies and the like, on which I warn you, as I warned that who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God "(Gal 5, 17 to 21 .)
who does not live well with their sexuality, that is, who does not live the virtue of purity, "is not capable of love: it is impossible, yours will be a pursuit of pleasure that makes the other in half-it reifies -.
with Christ God's law reaches its perfection
God's law is demanding because we are highly valued and because in matters of love minimalist calculations do not fit. It is because the purity is purity of heart, where there was love. It is not just a question of avoiding external events: to be faithful to the love (of God and others.)
There is a passage in which they go where the demand comes ... When Jesus says, "You have heard it said, 'Do not commit adultery. But I say: Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart "(Mt 5.27 to 28). Look ... it's more "soft" miss chastity. Therefore, do not tell you if you speak, listen, desire, touching, kissing ...
Lo que pide, lo concede a quien se lo pide y se esfuerza…
Dios no sólo enseña como somos y qué es lo mejor para nosotros: nos da su gracia. La perfección de su ley, consiste en que nos enseña el camino, nos da la fuerza para recorrerlo y nos acompaña en el trayecto.
San Pablo habla de su propia experiencia: "Y por eso, para que no me engría con la sublimidad de esas revelaciones, fue dado un aguijón a mi carne, un ángel de Satanás que me abofetea para que no me engría. Por este motivo tres veces rogué al Señor que se alejase de mí. Pero él me dijo: « My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness . " Therefore gladly continue glory over everything in my infirmities, that dwell in me the power of Christ. So I am content with weaknesses, insults, in necessities, in persecutions, and calamities suffered by Christ, for when I am weak, then I am strong "(2 Cor 12.7-10)
And this is a very important reason for optimism: you can change, can be improved. There are those who admire the Christian moral perfection, but think it is an unattainable ideal: you can not aspire to much and have to settle with message ... It is not true because God does not ask the impossible: it would be unfair if I did. Not only before a judge hard look from outside: it is by your side helping you, supporting you, encouraging you, for you will be excited to be what it should be.
Scripture and purity of life
The Scripture is very clear how God intended us to live sexuality. Here I quote some passages so that you meditate.
· Ef 5.3-6: "The fornication and all impurity or greed even be named among you, as becometh saints. The same for the rudeness, the follies or jests, things that are not good, but rather thanksgiving. Because Bear in mind that no fornicator or impure or greedy - which is to be idolatrous - participate in the inheritance of the Kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain reasons, then why is it God's wrath on the rebellious. "
· Mt 5.8: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God" Rom
· 8.5 to 8: "Those who live in the flesh what is carnal desire, but instead those who live in the Spirit want what is spiritual. However, the lust of the flesh leads to death, but the desires of the spirit leads to life and peace. because the desires of the flesh opposed to God, and which are not subject to law, nor can. Therefore, those who live according to the flesh can not please God. "
· Rom 8.12-13, "Brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live a carnal way. If you live in the flesh will die. "
· Rom 1.24-32: "Therefore God gave them the desires of his heart to an impurity as to dishonor their own bodies since they exchanged the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. So God gave them to degrading passions: for their women invested natural relations for unnatural others; also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their passion for each other, men doing shameless things with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. And did not see fit to acknowledge God, God delivered them to their senseless minds, to do what they should not: filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, wickedness, filled with envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless, which, while knowing that God's verdict declared worthy of death those who practice such things, not only do them but approve those who commit . "
· Rom 7, 19-23: "For if at one time you brought your members as slaves to impurity and disorder to desordenaros, now also offer them to justice for sainthood. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free for justice. What then harvested fruits of those things that at present you ashamed? For its end is death. But at present, free from sin and slaves of God, fructificáis for holiness, and to eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. "
· Rom 13, 12-14: "The night is far spent. The day is coming. Lay aside, therefore, the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. As in the day, proceed with decorum: no binges and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and licentiousness, no rivalries and jealousies. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ more and not worry about meat to satisfy their lusts. "
· Gal 5, 17 - 21: "For the flesh has desires against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, as being antagonistic to each other, so you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. However, the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, discord, jealousy, anger, quarrels, divisions, strife, envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like, on which I warn you, as I warned you that who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God . "
· Col 3, 4-10: "When Christ, your life, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. Therefore your members land mortified: fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry, all of which attracted the wrath of God upon the rebels, and that you also carried out in another time, when you lived among them. But now you also cast aside all this: anger, rage, malice, slander, and foolish talk, away from your mouth. Do not lie to each other. Off the old with his works, and clothe the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator. "
• 1 Thessalonians 4.3-7: "... we gave you by the Lord Jesus. Because this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you turn away from fornication, that each of you know how to possess his body holiness and honor, and not dominated by passion, as the heathen do not know God . Let no one miss your brother or take advantage of it at this point, for the Lord will avenge this, as I already said and what we witnessed, as not God called us to impurity but to holiness '.
· Eph 4.17 to 19, "I say, then, this and charge you in the Lord, that ye may live longer as the Gentiles live, in the emptiness of his mind, his mind plunged into darkness and excluded from life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of his head which, having lost the moral sense, were given to debauchery, until play with abandon every kind of impurity. " Pe
• 2 2.7-10: "For if God spared not the angels who sinned, but, precipitates in the dark abyss of Tartarus, delivered them to be guarded until the trial, did not spare the ancient world, although preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood on an ungodly world, if ordered the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, making them an example for those who would live in the future wickedly, and if delivered Lot, a righteous man, oppressed by the licentious conduct of those dissolute men - for that righteous man, living among them, tortured day after day his righteous soul by the wicked deeds he saw and heard - is because the Lord knows how to rescue the godly tests and save to punish the wicked in the Day of Judgement, especially the that walk after the flesh with impure desires and despise government. Bold and arrogant, not afraid to insult the glory. "
• 2 Pt 2 "for happiness have the pleasure of a day stained and infamous men, delivered himself to the pleasures while they feast with you. Having eyes full of adultery , which can not cease from sin, enticing weak souls have hearts trained in greed, children curse! Abandoning the straight path, deviated and followed the path of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved a salary of iniquity, but was rebuked for his wrongdoing. "
• 2 Pt 2, 18-20: "Speaking bad words, but empty, they allure through the lusts of the flesh and debauchery to those just to get away from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of corruption, because one is slave of him who wins. For if, after moving away from the impurity of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein and overcome, his last situation is worse than the first. "
· 1 Cor 6.13 to 20, " The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord , and the Lord for the body. (...) They not know that your bodies are members of Christ? How can I take the members of Christ to become members of a prostitute? No way. Do not they know that is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? (...) Avoid fornication. All other sins committed by man is outside his body, but immoral man sins against his own body. Do you not know that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit who dwells in you and they have received from God? Therefore, you do not belong, but have been purchased, and at what price? Then glorify God in their bodies. "
• 1 Corinthians 6, 9-11: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the Kingdom of God. And such some of you were you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God. "
· AP 21, 8: "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. "
· Jude 7: "as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which are prostituted in a similar way to them, drifting against nature relations have remained as such, subject to the punishment of eternal fire."
· Hebrews 13.4: "respect for marriage and not dishonor the marriage bed, for God will judge the lustful and adulterous ."
Did not you hear the word of God? Do you think? Do we think God wants jorobarte the life?
If the 6 th and 9 th commandments did not exist ... the less people would have problems with the Church ... objections, attacks ... .... Many more would practice the faith. But no case we can not renounce the truth and the greatness of the Christian vocation.
be a Christian in a
paganized
not just "survive" without polluting, we have a positive impact: improving our environment: purifying an atmosphere charged with eroticism. That is the task, the mission of Christians.
In media saturated with sensuality, obsessed to sexuality (cf. 2 Pet 2.14), the difference must be noted (cf. Eph 4, 17-19). It is the first step.
And we need to know to explain the reasons of chastity and the sense of sexuality, to develop a superiority complex: it is true that a "pure love" is better: everyone knows, we all value.
Conclusion
plays in this field is our faithfulness to God and our mission in the world. Do not forget that we are the salt of the earth. If the salt loses its flavor ... who's going to be protected from corruption? It is therefore vital that the Lord asked us: "be not conformed to the world."
[i] The gist of this dialogue has been taken from Mikel Santamaria.
Paul Writes
