even if the 2 are grown up adults and wear condom and are not planning have kids by now?
2007-12-01 09:49:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not that Catholic's are severe about sex, it's that God expects us to be chaste and understand his gift of sexuality. The Catholic Church cannot change the teachings and word of God.
Sexuality is a gift from God. You should see it as a loving obligation and not a severe rule. Marriage mirrors the love Christ has for his church in the way spouses love and give themselves to each other. The sexual expression of love, within marriage, is to be a total and self-giving love. You and your spouse holding nothing back, loving each other completely. This is the way Christ loves his Church. Nothing is held back.
In married love, we are to be open to God and his will for us. This means being open to the gift of life. Each child a purposeful human being brought into existence because a man and a woman love each other and because they love God.
When we give ourselves only physically to someone we lust after, we cheapen sex. We use that other person to satisify our physical needs. This is not what God intended for sex and certainly not what he intended for love. Then, if this is not the person you love, you move on. Soon there are several people you have "shared" yourself with. You have used and been used and this undermines you as a being created in the image of God.
Saving yourself for marriage is a sacrifice yes, but so worthwhile. It is an understanding of God's command to us to be fruitful and multiply. It is an understanding of God's love for us expressed in human terms between each other.
Wearing a condom prevents the transmission of life. This is not our place..it is not our call to decide which lives are worthwhile, which lives will be convenient for us. It is within marriage and in the context of God's love that we reach the fulfillment of our calling to the vocation of married life.
http://www.davidmacd.com/catholic/chastity.htm
2007-12-01 10:21:13 · answer #1 · answered by Misty 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many people of both sexes have been taken advantage of with premarital sex. It can lead to unwed parents, children without 2 parents (which is a stronger union hopefully), it can lead to promiscuity and sexual disease. One must be careful; our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and should be regarded as such. Today, there is not much sanctity in marriage or relationships of any kind - it has gone too much out of control and respect. Of course there are many who do not fit into this category so, as Christians following the Gospels, we need to soul-search and discern what exactly we want from ourself and then proceed to share it with another - and the "wee" others - babies.....As for "pro-creation", yes the Church teaches that, however it must be clarified.....Pro-creation is the ultimate end result of the sexual act, however we are also permitted to enjoy each other's company and the proof there, is that we don't always get pregnant from each and every sexual act - whether we monitor it or not. The stress is placed on Pro-creation to take the focus off of promiscuity.
2007-12-01 10:03:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you were Catholic you would know that the Church above all other human institutions have seen, heard, and studied human sexuality more completely for over 2000 years than any other human organization in the history of humanity!
Human Life is Sacred and solely the Gift from God. The Church through its experience is quite capable of knowing what is injurious to people. The Bible emphatically states that sex relations is for marriage.
Now, let's look at the different sexual issues, and which is most protective towards women, men, and children?
Right. Marriage. Sex outside of marriage simply the means that the guy wants a part of you without any commitment for the rest of your life. Once you give, he will stay with you and ALL your future partner forever even after the original doner has left to find another. There is no turning back.
So, I think the Church is correct, and Jesus is correct to place a caution flag and sin on fornication as a single person and adultery in marriage. Sex outside marriage is sinful because it places selfish lusts over the self giving love of marriage.
Abuse is so rampant with these commandments of caution in place, think how much injury would occur if we allowed the strongest to survive in sexual relations. I think women would lose.
2007-12-01 10:02:03 · answer #3 · answered by Lives7 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Marriage is a sacrament in the Catholic Church, which means it is a means by which God bestows grace upon us. Sexual relations is an integral part of marriage, so that makes it holy, too. Plus, it is the means by which we can most closely imitate God, the Creator, and act "in His image" through the act of creating new life (procreation).
Sex outside of marriage belittles the holiness of marriage and makes it coarse and commonplace, like sneezing or shaking hands or eating a popsicle or going to a concert or something like that.
Artificial birth control is an additional sin because it seeks to take the responsibility out of sex and reduce it to hedonistic (selfish) pleasure. It is a mutual REJECTION of the partners, so sex becomes something that is no longer completely unifying the two, but separating them. The man tells the woman, he doesn't want her egg, he doesn't want her ability to bear his offspring; the woman tells the man she doesn't want his sperm, she doesn't want part of him inside her making a new life that is equally him and her.
Furthermore, it's not necessary for family planning. God in His infinite wisdom made women CYCLICAL. We can only get pregnant for a short window of time -- actually only about 12 hours every month. With the natural signs our body produces, we can pinpoint the time of ovulation to a window of generally 48-72 hours. If you're not in a position to have a baby that month, you simply avoid sexual relations during those few days. Still plenty of time in the month to enjoy TOTAL unification with your spouse without sinning against God's plan for womanly fertility, sex, and marriage.
2007-12-02 05:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by sparki777 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many good answers here. One other point. You do extreme damage unseen in the present day, which builds and turns against you. You will be building your marriage and life on sand, and the result is suffering. Remember, sin can seem so wonderful and harmless, but it is not cheap, and is never allowed to go unpunished. So if you want to be and stay happy and healthy, do good, for after all you are God's image too.
2007-12-01 12:21:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its complicated. The energy produced during sex or even orgasm is equivalent to the life force itself. It has to do with the occult. Witchcraft uses the power of life force and the mind to manifest the desires of the user. So naturally the Catholic church would be against casual sex because it increases the level of life force in the body. As the Church is also against forms of self empowerment such as witchcraft the abstaining of sex is an obvious extension in their beliefs.
2007-12-01 09:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by Jakero Evigh 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is concerned with how we treat each other.
We have been instructed to love
+ Our neighbor as we love ourselves
+ One another as Jesus loved us
When we treat each other like sex objects, when sex is taking instead of giving, we damage the human dignity of both our partner and ourselves.
True giving of yourself to another in a sacramental marriage is what love is all about.
Marriage is a symbol of God's creation of the world in an act of divine love and self-outpouring.
Marriage is a symbol of the love, commitment, intensity, and passion of Christ for the Church for which He laid down His life.
Christians take sex very seriously because it is a glorious gift from God that lets us feel just a bit like God. We become lovers, givers, and creators.
With love in Christ
2007-12-01 16:41:14 · answer #7 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a sacrament and sex is a sacramental act reserved for two people who are bound together by God in a holy union. To view sex as a casual thing which can be done whenever and with whomever is to cheapen the sacramental bond of marriage. People often say that Catholics make too big a deal about sex - that we're too hung up about it or that we are against it. Actually, the opposite is true. Folks who are casual about sex are the ones who are "against" it - against the importance and sanctity of it. God created sex for our benefit - to attract us to our mate, to experience pleasure together and to bear children. To experience sex casually is to fail to recognize its importance.
2007-12-01 10:03:05 · answer #8 · answered by Myth Buster 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hmmmmm, very interesting question. In my opinion, the Bible gives specific guidance for the type of woman or man one needs to seek out for happiness in marriage. So, if you look at society today sexual freedom has resulted in serious STD's and unwanted pregnancies plus, multiple relaltionships which ends and people are not happy mentally, physically, spiritually, socially.
Parent's have given rules to protect their children and God has done the same but we as God's children are not listening and if we did we would not find outselves in the messes that we create for ourselves. BFN
2007-12-01 10:03:50 · answer #9 · answered by snookums 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-18 12:44:47 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋