Christian: Human Relationships
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- Christian views: love and sex.
- Agape: unconditional love.
- Sexual intercourse is wrong outside of marriage.
- "Flee from sexual immorality. He who sins sexually sins against his own body."
- Marriage is remedy against sin and avoid fornication outside of marriage.
- Widows shouldstay unmaried unless they cannot control themselves, they should marry for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
- Homosexuality
- Sexual relationships should only take place within marriage, Christians are traditionally opposed.
- "Men comitted indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
- A growing number of Christians accept homosexual relatioship
- Sexual relationships should only take place within marriage, Christians are traditionally opposed.
- Marriage
- Christians see marriage as vows taken before God.
- It's a gift from god; it's part of God’s plan for creation that men and women should live together
- It provides a relationship through which husband and wife support each other; this relationship is built on love and faithfulness.
- Divorce
- The teaching of Jesus in the New Testament is against divorce
- ‘anyone who divorces his wife, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- Adultery (sex with someone who you are not married to) is also wrong
- ‘anyone who divorces his wife, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- Marriage can only be ended by an annulment in the Roman Catholic Church the marriage is regarded as never having taken place.
- The teaching of Jesus in the New Testament is against divorce
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