Relationships and Family Life - Christianity Flashcards
sexual immorality
“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own.”
Adultery
“You have heard that it was said,’You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Purpose of marriage
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.”
Sex in marriage
“Every sexual act must be within the framework of marriage.” Casti Connubi
purpose of sex, role of marriage
“God blessed them and said to them,”Be fruitful and increase in number.”
Contraception
“Every sexual act should have the possibility of creating new life” Humanae Vitae
Adultery
“You shall not commit adultery.”
Adultery
“The sexual act must take place exclusively within marriage. Outside of marriage it always constitutes a grave sin.”
Equality
“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.W
Homosexuality
“Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.”
Divorce
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud…It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.”
Duty of families
“Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own households, had denied that faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
Marriage
“What God has joined together let no man separate.”
Contraception
“The conference agrees that other methods may be used, provided that it is done in the light of Christian principles.”
The role of parents towards their children
“…If anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.”
