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Christian views on Sex.

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 15:59:54 UTC

Christian teaching is generally that sexual intercourse is wrong unless it happens within a married couple. God intended men and women to live together as married couples but not to live together outside marriage. The Christian Church often has very strict views on love and sex. These are based on passages from the Bible. Christians are often encouraged to love one another in a non-sexual way. This type of love, sometimes called ‘agape’ is the love that Jesus showed to other people when he gave his life for them.

Inequality in a Christian Church.

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:06:04 UTC

Many people think that the Christian Church is sexist. It does not treat men and women equally.

The teaching of St Paul is often quoted to support the way some churches today treat women. From the extracts below, it would seem that he believed that the role of women was different to that of men, and secondary to it.

1 John 4:7-12

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:29:43 UTC

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No-one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 Corinthians 6:18-19

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:34:40 UTC

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

St Paul Said: 1 Corinthians 14:34-35

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:41:02 UTC

Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to enquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

Jesus' view.

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:43:50 UTC

Jesus, however, always showed by his actions that he respected and valued women. He included them among his closest companions, and sometimes went against the conventions of his time which kept men and women apart. Jesus made it clear in the Parable of the Good Samaritan how his followers should treat people – he made no distinction between men and women.

Woman Bishops..

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:45:03 UTC

The Right Reverend Kay Goldsworthy - Australia's First Female Bishop

St Paul Said: 1 Corinthians 7:9

ginag98 — 2014-02-28 16:47:31 UTC

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.