Ethics

• Friendship
• Sexual and Romantic Love
• Parental Love
• Sibling Love
• Companionship
• Material Love

EROS - sexual love

PHILIA - friendship

STORGE - affectionate/familial love

AGAPE - self giving love

Monogamy

• legally having one husband/wife at a time.
• this is what is usually accepted/is legal in a society (this is what is culturally accepted and legal in the west)

Bigamy

• illegally having more than one wife/husband at a time. 
• this can happen anywhere.

Polygamy

• legally having more than one wife/husband at one time.
• this is less common nowadays, however, in some middle-eastern countries it is legal.

A Christian wedding shows the symbolic unity of a man and a woman as instructed in the bible. Marriage marks an invisible meaning with a visible event in front of God to show their graciousness for Jesus sacrifice.

Civil Partnership

• A legal binding of two people.
• A formal ceremony.
• Gives a same-sex couple the same rights as a heterosexual couple. 
• There is no religious affiliation.
• They have been legal in Britain since 2005.

Same - Sex Marriage

• This makes gay couples equal to heterosexual couples.
• Was made legal in 2014.
• The Church of England doesn't allow same-sex marriage.

Christians do not condone divorce because marriage is a lifelong commitment and a covenant with God.

Matthew 5:31-32, during the Sermon on the Mount. "Those who remarry are adulterous."

• Christians believe that people should not divorce or remarry as Jesus said to divorce was to adulter.
• This is because Christians believe marriage is a lifelong commitment. "Til death do us part."
• The only acceptable reason for divorce is if the woman has been adulterous. (Roman Catholics)
• The Orthodox Church allow remarriage, as it is better for one to be married to their partner than for them to not be married to their partner. 

Men:

• Breadwinner, his role is to bring money to the family and help protect the family.
• Men are doctors, soldiers, workers, builders, athletes, CEOs and the Pope.

Women:

• Women are caring, maternal people.
• They are housewives, nurses, childbearers, models, teachers, maids, midewifes.

Christians think that owmen are second, they must do what a man says as in Timothy 2:12-15.

In Roman Catholicism, women aren't allowed to become bishops or priests. This is because women mustn't have authority over a man.

In the Church of England, there are 7798 priests, 1781 are women.                                             There are 101 male bishops, and 2 female bishops in the UK. There are just 30 female bishops in the UK.

Women are to care for the home and children. "Wives submit to your husbands." 1 Peter 3:1-7.

The men are in charge. "I will make a helper suitable for a man." Genesis 2:15

Husband and wife are equal. "There is neither man or woman, for you are all for one in Jesus Christ." Galatians 3:28

In some accounts Jesus treats women equally. For example Luke 8:43-48, Jesus heals the bleeding woman. 

However in the New Testament it is inconsistent as to what people really think of women. 

• Co-habitation : living with your partner whilst you are unmarried. 
• Abstinence : choosing to not have sex until marriage.
• Chastity : Choosing not to have sex due to religious vows.
• Celibacy : Choosing to not have sex or to marry.
• Agape : Selfless.non-physical love.
• Promiscuity : Having lots of consensual sex.
• Adultery : Sex with someone who's not your married partner.
• Fornication : Sex with someone you aren't in a relationship with, whilst being single. 

In Christianity sex is for the purpose of having children only.

• 'Be fruitful and increase in number.' Genesis 1:58
• 'Two will become one flesh.' Ephesians 5:31

The songs of songs discusses sexual intimacy in detail. 

Christians believe that sex before marriage is wrong as it goes against the ten commandments. 

Sex before marriage is adulterous.

Sex is only to be had in the married state, in order to procreate.

Sex is only for after marriage. 'That is why a man leaves his father and his mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.' Genesis 2:24

There are four types of contraception : 

• Permanent : irreversible
• Temporary : only lasts for a certain amount of time
• Natural : doesn't interfere with natural processes
• Unnatural : Interferes with the bodys natural processes

• condom/femidom
• the pill
• the implant
• the coil
• vasectomy 
• depo jab
• contraceptive patch
• cervical cap
• cervical sponge
• rhythm method
• sterilisation
• mini pill

Abortions and the morning after pill are abortifacients.

This means that they end a life.

Roman Catholics would not agree with contraception, apart from the rhythm method. 

In Genesis 1, God commanded that his creation be, 'fruitful and increase in number.'

Using contraception changes the purpose of sex, and goes against Gods divine plan.

Contraception goes against the Sancitity of Life (life is special and sacred, a God given gift.)

Roman Catholics would disagree strongly with abortion or the morning after pill, as they end a life, and go against the idea of 'ensoulment.' 

Ensoulment is the idea that the soul begins at implantation. (Roman Catholics only).

"Even before uou were, I knew you." Isaiah (Old Testament)