From: sheila-mcginty@geotec.net
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 10:28:21 EDT
Actually, I never mentioned anything about children. Children are a wonderful
blessing from God that are often a natural consequence of sex but I believe sex
between a husband and wife is much, much more than just procreation. I believe
sex is a significant part of the wonderful mystery that Paul discusses when he
says "the two shall become one."
Sheila
Quoting RFaussette@aol.com:
> In a message dated 7/23/03 2:41:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> sheila-mcginty@geotec.net writes:
>
>
> > The Word of God clearly states that homosexual acts are an
> abomination. It
> > does not say most acts or some acts or these acts or those acts. The
> Bible
> > clearly says that all sex is wrong except sex between a husband and
> wife
> > within
> > the sanctity of marriage. Sex between a husband and wife is ordained,
>
> > sanctioned, blessed, and holy according to God. Any other sex is a
> sin
> > against
> > one's own body; this includes any couple of any sex in a committed,
> domestic
> > relationship.
> >
> > Sheila
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> I think sheila has made the main point. Sex is only sanctified when its
>
> direct aim is procreation, which means sex is never an end in itself.
> Religiously,
> that means the important thing to do is to master the sex drive, one of
> the
> most powerful of the body's drives in the pursuit of self discipline.
> One who
> is partially disciplined cannot do the will of the Father. Only mastery
> of the
> body gives one the total freedom to do God's will whatever it is. You
> cannot
> be bound to the body and bound to God. It's one or the other.
>
>
>
> “This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order
> to take
> it up again. No one takes it from me but I lay it down on my own. I have
>
> power to lay it down and power to take it up again. This command I have
> received
> from my Father (John 10:17).”
>
>
>
> Not everybody wants to be religious, and that's fine. One who cannot
> master
> the body cannot presume to match the religiosity of one who does or we'd
> all be
> sons of God. Then what of the achievement of the true Son of God?
>
>
>
> rich
>
Sheila McGinty Wilson
sheila-mcginty@geotec.net
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