Christianity Flashcards
‘two people become one flesh, so they are no longer two but one’
Genesis 2:24
‘be fruitful and increase in number’
Genesis 1:28
“Men, leaving natural use of woman, burned in their lust toward one another; men with men”
Romans 1:26-27
“You shall not commit adultery”
Exodus 20:14
“everyone who divorces his wife makes her commit adultery, whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery”
Mt 5:31-32
“whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery”
Mk 10:12
‘love your wife just as Jesus loved the church’
Ephesians 5:31-2
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
(CCC2353)
“That is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, they become one body”
Genesis 2:24
“homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” 142 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. “
(CCC2357)
“Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection”
(CCC 2357– 2359).
“freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God”
1250, Catechism
“Your whole self ruled by flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ, having been buried with him in baptism”
Colossians 2:11-12
“Buried with him in baptism, in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God’
Colossians 2:12
It was for no reason except his own compassion that he saved us, by means of the cleansing water of rebirth
Titus 3:5
