<EOT>
There is plenty they say from various chapters, right back to the first non married couple; the alleged Adam and Eva.
The lack of specific quotation is doctrinal in the sense that Catholicism seems to confuse their idea of original sin that would keep people hiding out in their temple, with the concept of the degree sanctity of relations of couples in a marriage. This is very common among the flock. However it would not be wrong to say that if there is original sin, that sex etc.. is part of that... but not in sense of wrongdoing of the act, so much as it is a consequence of the aspect of death that Adam inherited. The actual meaning of original sin is the inheritance of death (and of course sex-death are mutually supportive) by Adam's sin.. and not the will of the flesh so to speak, so people err in that perception. Inheritance is not the same as will.
I believe that the whole concept of Adam was the religious attempt to solve the chicken-egg argument about life in general. We are not ameoba, we reproduce and die; "how did that happen.." it seems obvious this was their "magical" reconciliation of this mystery.
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Marriage -->
Only the death of one partner should dissolve a marriage and free the other to remarry. The widow or widower can of course remarry whenever they feel ready, because death has dissolved the marriage(1Corinthians 7:39). When man does what only death is supposed to do, that is a bad thing. Jesus said,"What God has joined together, let not man put asunder" (Matthew 19:6).
The Bible teaches that the man in a marriage is the head of the woman he is married to (1 Corinthians 11:3). The wife is to obey her husband (1 Peter 3:1-6, Ephesians 5:22-24). The husband must be caring, sharing, and self-sacrificing (1Peter 3:7, Ephesians 5:25,28-33).
Ephesians 5:32-33
"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be become one flesh. This mystery is great: but I am speaking concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless, let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband."
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Married Life
1 Corinthians 7:33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.
1 Corinthians 7:34 There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.
1 Corinthians 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Corinthians 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
1 Corinthians 7:38 So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.
1 Corinthians 7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1Corinthians 7:40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
A nice poem..(Corinthians)
Love is patient,
Love is kind,
And is not jealous.
Love does not brag,
And is not arrogant.
Love does not behave rudely,
Does not seek its own,
Is not provoked,
Thinks no evil.
Love does not rejoice in evil,
But rejoices in truth.
Love bears all things,
Believes all things,
Hopes all things,
Endures all things.
Love never fails...
Allegedly what is said about homosexuality. Some of it a stretch.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
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