Physical intimacy (hugging, kissing, cuddling, holding hands, even physical nearness) other than sex also gives those hormone boosts.You honestly present a good argument. The only problem is that shagging helps build 'real' love, this is reasonably proven in the modern day. It's just the nature of the hormones. I'm not saying it's "guaranteed to" or "always causes". I mean 'helps'. IF it helps build real love, I think that Galatians 5 kicks in. IF it does not build real love, then clearly Gal 5 is out. But this would be determined at the individual level.
If you could please provided examples of Catholics "pick from all over the New Testament in order to justify what is still disapproved of and what is no longer disapproved of" I'd be grateful.That's not much by way of a response, so you'll excuse me if I continue to question that your beliefs are valid and consistent.
Yes, a very high price basically guarantees the man is the father's slave for years, IIRC the wife can still go to a rabbinical court to get the husband divorced.I like that there is a price for rape. 50 silver pieces and a nagging wife.
If you could please provided examples of Catholics "pick from all over the New Testament in order to justify what is still disapproved of and what is no longer disapproved of" I'd be grateful.
Yes, true, cuddling helps. But sexual intimacy is fundamentally different. Different, er, things happen to the body and the mind with sexual intimacy. Sexual intimacy can be better, in fact, than mere cuddling. This really cannot be denied.Physical intimacy (hugging, kissing, cuddling, holding hands, even physical nearness) other than sex also gives those hormone boosts.
I'm really sorry, I checked Galatians 5 and I can't find private revelation or a proximate, if you could please point it out I'd be very grateful, if it is somewhere else, no biggie, accidents happen and the Bible isn't exactly a small book.
Gal 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Gal 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
You and the person you love each have a cheesecake in front of you, you've been told you can't eat the cheesecake in front of you, likewise with them. Do you rage? Do you eat the cheesecake anyway? I personally would feed my cheesecake to the person I love and they would feed their cheesecake to me, we both get our fill of cheesecake.Being in love with someone but never having sex. Why don't I just sit in front of a cheesecake all day and never eat it.
All sexual acts outside of marriage are morally wrong, homosexual acts can never happen within marriage, ergo homosexual acts are morally wrong. homosexual acts are just a type of fornication.I believe the dispensation to eat almost anything and the injunction against homosexual acts, for example, are found in different books written by different people.
What we know as marriage today is marriage of bodies, it lasts until death, but this, this is something else, this is something special, it is a marriage of souls.Yes, true, cuddling helps. But sexual intimacy is fundamentally different. Different, er, things happen to the body and the mind with sexual intimacy. Sexual intimacy can be better, in fact, than mere cuddling. This really cannot be denied.
If I told you that coffee 'perked me up', you could point out that a peptalk does the same thing. Yes, true, but not in the same way. Not the same mechanisms. And not with the same efficacy.
Keep in mind that both Paul and Peter teach about private revelation as a source of knowing God's will. The very best example is Peter's sheet of animals. He didn't have the law 'clarified', the law was 'changed from what it used to be' by revelation.
So, here's where I am in Galatians 5
This is not saying that "if you love God, you'll keep the law". This is saying "the law can be over-ridden by the Spirit", that you can make personal choices based on your feedback from God.
Now, here he's talking about fruit. Fruit is a consequence of behaviour, not a cause of behaviour. If a behaviour results in a fruit, it is not 'under the law'. This is because the law can be misinterpreted, so Paul mentions KISS earlier
So, if your relations lead to the fruit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, etc. it's blessed by the Spirit. It is not under the law. Now *I* cannot judge whether any specific relationship of someone else`s creates Fruit or not. I can barely judge for myself! But I can make those decisions, if I strive to be honest while meditating on it. If I lie to myself about whether something bears Fruit, then I have to live with the consequences. But I do know it`s possible to build the Fruit with sexual intimacy, and that sexual intimacy does not NEED to hurt the Fruit (though it certainly can!).
Galatians 5:1-6 said:1 Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man circumcising himself, that he is a debtor to the whole law. 4 You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace. 5 For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by charity.
The introduction of any, however small, share of the ceremonial and Jewish rites, will greatly disfigure the purity and simplicity of the Christian institute.Yes, I know. He's saying that choosing to live by the law means that you're judged by the law. If you live in the Spirit, then you can avail yourself of Christ's salvation. And then he gives you guides how to know if you're living under the Spirit.
All sexual acts outside of marriage are morally wrong, homosexual acts can never happen within marriage, ergo homosexual acts are morally wrong. homosexual acts are just a type of fornication.
legal≠ecclesiastical, the ecclesiastical part is what mattersEven if that were objectively true and not just a statement of religion, that could be easily solved by allowing legal same-sex marriages.
legal≠ecclesiastical, the ecclesiastical part is what matters
The Truth is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.Then you would seem to be in a continued situation of self-denial, based on the fact that the religious teaching to which you adhere will never be adapted to more closely suit the modern world.
A Christian marriage joins a man and a woman together, a Jewish marriage joins a man and a woman together, a Hindu marriage joins a man and a woman together...Yes, I know. It's the same thing that makes some Hindu marriages true marriages. The legal rites by which the marriage is 'ordained' matters little compared to the level of love generated by the relationship. The Fruit justifies the marriage, nothing else.
Is it? It seems the truth changed to adapt several times over the course of the Bible (The Fall, post-flood, promised land, death/resurrection of Jesus, just to name the biger ones)The Truth is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The Truth is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.
All sexual acts outside of marriage are morally wrong, homosexual acts can never happen within marriage, ergo homosexual acts are morally wrong. homosexual acts are just a type of fornication.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.