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To: Mrs. Don-o

“I was sort of hoping for actual reflection on Christian experience Christian discernment, and/or Natural Law -— Natural Law, correctly considered, applies to everyone but it does take some careful thinking through, which we could do together -— but I was disappointed.”

...and I was hopeful you might find something God said.


147 posted on 05/17/2018 6:53:28 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Admiral Michael S. Rogers)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
From Genesis through Revelation, God repeatedly taught about marriage, said the way He created it was good (Genesis), gave commandments concerning marriage, voiced His expectations for marriage, used sacred imagery for marriage, referred to its "from the beginning" male-and-female one-flesh form as His continuing intent, and through St. Paul proclaimed marriage a "Magnum Mysterium" (Ephesians).

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. (Ephesians 5:31–32)

That means it's sacred. Consider that sacred things arenot to be dis-assembled and re-assembled according to a new and different pattern according to your preference.

He never said OK to contraceptive sex, intentionally sterilized sex, queered sex, or any other basic re-invention of a different kind of sex.

In all this vast panorama of teachings, He NEVER said you can violate His design by deliberately suppressing or impairing the marital union's procreative power. He did not show you ONE procreative-suppressed act that was blessed, and He DID show you one procreative-suppressed act that was cursed.

He never said that 1900 years later He would authorize people to split off the procreative from the unitive, so that the procreative power of the act could be temporarily or permanently rejected.

So when you came along and said otherwise...

"...I was 100% sure you couldn't find something that God said."

148 posted on 05/17/2018 7:34:26 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Everything should be made a simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein)
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