SEX IS NOT LOVE!
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No, sex is definitely not love. Love is from the heart, sex is from the most primitive and basal instincts in man. Sex is indiscriminate and insatiable, and turns men into incontrollable animals and immature little boys. Love is focused and reserved, and builds character and edifies, it is only for the self-disciplined and mature. Only confident and strong people know how, and are capable, to love. Weak people lust ruthlessly and selfishly, and destroy and denigrate what they desire, as it destroys them.
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@Mungo @jaybird
You both are correct, but in regard to the OP, sex does not necessitate love. As Paul said, there is a physical duty and obligation that both spouses owe to each other, which I believe that he was talking about physical intimacy in this context. Therefore, I believe that you're both correct. But not every act of sex within a marriage is either derived from love, nor does it meet God's approbation, as you both know. There is selfishness, objectification, lust, lewd acts, childish games, that also take place in the confines of a consecrated couple (married by a Church).
Thus, sex, in and of itself, is not love. Just as charity is not always altruistic.
You both are correct, but in regard to the OP, sex does not necessitate love. As Paul said, there is a physical duty and obligation that both spouses owe to each other, which I believe that he was talking about physical intimacy in this context. Therefore, I believe that you're both correct. But not every act of sex within a marriage is either derived from love, nor does it meet God's approbation, as you both know. There is selfishness, objectification, lust, lewd acts, childish games, that also take place in the confines of a consecrated couple (married by a Church).
Thus, sex, in and of itself, is not love. Just as charity is not always altruistic.
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God created sex as an essential ingredient as a part of the loving oneness between a husband and wife. This oneness has the potential to produce human beings, which is amazing! I heard someone say recently that sex has become recreation instead of procreation. When we lose sight God's purpose and parameters for sex, then we miss out; we end up missing the mark.
Sin literally means missing the mark. When we make sex recreation, we cheapen something so sacred that God created. Paul compared the oneness between a husband and wife with Christ's union with His church. This is a sacred union, and there is nothing like being one with Jesus Christ! We experience this oneness when we are born again because He comes to live in us, and we are placed in Him!
As with any sin, there is a price to pay for going outside of God's parameters. With sexual sin, a person give parts of themselves away that they never get back. It's much better for a person to be able to give all of themselves to their spouse when they get married. God is not a killjoy. He has a reason for the parameters He sets. If we disobey, we pay, meaning we suffer the consequences of our disobedience.
But if we are obedient to Him, we enjoy the fruit of obedience--a closeness to Him that we cannot know when we are living in sin. And a love beyond any kind of human love that we can EVER experience!
In a loving marriage, sex is a beautiful expression of love. At least, that's how I saw it.
The final act of my life is yet to be played...it ain't over 'til it's over.
They say faith is a risk...so is love. I have both.
If it's not God, then I'm a fraud!
The final act of my life is yet to be played...it ain't over 'til it's over.
They say faith is a risk...so is love. I have both.
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