Dear All, Sharing my line of thought in the discussion regarding having sex outside (before) marriage .
The best trick that the devil uses to trick Gods children is to make some sins (especially related to sex) look very normal. By advocating fornication ; he is attacking one of the greatest institutions of the church - Marriage. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24) The world has chose to destroy this beautiful act of Creation by having unnatural sex. A person having a relationship with another person enters into this "one flesh" bondage. He will not be released from this bondage even after marriage and this bondage normally results in breaking the marriage itself. The question arises - "What if I marry the same person ?". It is sin again as you have committed sexual immorality outside the chords of marriage. "It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit." (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8) Some more points from the Catechism of the Catholic Church : 2353. "Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is corruption of the young. " 1755. "A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together. An evil end corrupts the action, even if the object is good in itself (such as praying and fasting 'in order to be seen by men'). The object of the choice can by itself vitiate an act in its entirety. There are some concrete acts - such as fornication - that it is always wrong to choose, because choosing them entails a disorder of the will, that is, a moral evil." 2396. "Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices. 1852. "There are a great many kinds of sins. Scripture provides several lists of them. The Letter to the Galatians contrasts the works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit: 'Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.'[Gal 5:19-21 ; CE Rom 1:28-32 ; 1 Cor 9-10 ; EPh 5:3-5; Col 3:5-8 ; 1 Tim 9-10 ; 2 Tim 2-5 .]" 1853. "Sins can be distinguished according to their objects, as can every human act; or according to the virtues they oppose, by excess or defect; or according to the commandments they violate. They can also be classed according to whether they concern God, neighbor, or oneself; they can be divided into spiritual and carnal sins, or again as sins in thought, word, deed, or omission. The root of sin is in the heart of man, in his free will, according to the teaching of the Lord: 'For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a man.'[Mt 15:19-20 .] But in the heart also resides charity, the source of the good and pure works, which sin wounds" 2534. "The tenth commandment unfolds and completes the ninth, which is concerned with concupiscence of the flesh. It forbids coveting the goods of another, as the root of theft, robbery, and fraud, which the seventh commandment forbids. 'Lust of the eyes' leads to the violence and injustice forbidden by the fifth commandment.[Cf. 1Jn 2:16 ; Mic 2:2 .] Avarice, like fornication, originates in the idolatry prohibited by the first three prescriptions of the Law.[Cf. Wis 14:12 .] The tenth commandment concerns the intentions of the heart; with the ninth, it summarizes all the precepts of the Law." In Jesus and Mother Mary Sanju Joseph ________________________________________________________________________ =============================================================================== This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. For more info on the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet To unsubscribe from the list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet/join In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================================================
