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Christian Teaching About Sex
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Scripture•There are 2 general principles that we
can deduce from Scripture regarding sex:
1. Sexuality is part of God’s “good”
creation.
2. Like all dimensions of our humanness,
sexuality can be corrupted and become
sinful.
Sexuality is part of God’s “good” creation.
• The Scriptures tell us
our bodies are
“temples of the Holy
Spirit”
• Our love making and
life giving sexual
expressions are
essential to our
existence.
God’s Good Creation
• Sex is a gift that is
meant to be used
lovingly and
creatively
• To be linked to
concern for others
and community life
(the common good)
Sexuality can become corrupted
•The Bible warns us
about idolatry:
being consumed
with one thing and
treating it as if it
were more
important than God.
Corruption
• We need to be critical
of our actions,
motives and our
society’s values
• We can misuse and
abuse it, turning it
into a destructive
force
“How do we live as sexual
being?”
“How do we exercise mastery
over our sexuality?”
Virtue•A disposition, or a pattern of behavior, by
which an individual willingly and
consistently chooses to act in a morally
good way.
•On-going patterns of moral behavior that
develop through our free and intentional
choices.
Virtue• When we always tell
the truth, we develop
the virtue of honesty,
• When we consistently
give others what is
due them, we develop
the virtue of justice
etc.
Temperance
Chastity
Temperance
• (Self-control).
• Is the virtue that brings reason to
bear on what are called the
affective emotions.
Affective Emotions What moves us to desire certain bodily
needs that are important fro the
maintenance of the individual person
(food, drink, sex)
Affective Emotions•Affective emotions are neither bad
nor good in themselves. We all
posses these emotions and desires.
•Temperance allows us to control
these emotions.
Chastity•The CCC states that chastity is “the
successful integration of sexuality within the
person and thus the inner unity of a person
in his/her bodily and spiritual being.”
• It is the virtue by which sexuality becomes
personal and interpersonal, becomes truly
and fully human.
Chastity Chastity leads us to
treat others as persons
and not merely as
bodies
This integration leads to
a sexuality that values
and respects the dignity
of the self and the other
as persons
Chastity• Chaste human
sexuality is both self-
giving and life giving
• It involves the full gift
of oneself to another.
• And this opens up the
possibility of creation
of new life
Sexual intercourse should be the sign and the fruit of a
relationship that is permanent, exclusive, faithful, and sealed
by public declaration of the couple’s love for each other.
We are talking about the kind of love that rooted in respect for
the other as a person and in willingness to be with this person
for “better or for worse, in sickness and in health etc. etc., and
it’s the kind of love found only in marriage.