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A 3 page paper which examines the works of St. Paul, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas as it involves love and sex. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of all time in relationship to the development of the Christian religion and in relationship to presenting ways in which to understand the Christian religion. Each one offered up ways
of examining life, ways of living life, and rules to follow in terms of the Christian faith. The following paper examines how the three, individually, felt about the subjects of
love and sex. St. Paul It can be stated that St. Paul was the first Christian to address how man should live in relationship to marriage, men
and women, sexual relations, and love. "St. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11:10 that man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman was created for the sake
of man" (George, 1999). This essentially lies at the foundation of all beliefs concerning love and sex in Christianity. Women were seen as less than men and could not voice
their opinions or even really ask questions in church, but rather had to rely on the man. In this sense sex was permitted in marriage for the purpose of procreation,
which leaves little room for love, save for perhaps a Christian love. Marriage and sex were part of the natural order of things and Paul indicated that possessing an "excessive
appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there is a very natural order to sexuality in the words of
St. Paul and "there is an ontological, created reality and natural order beyond mere physical pleasure, which must not be violated" and sex outside of a marriage is wrong. Women
and sex are for reasons of reproduction and love, real love, is likely something truly afforded only God, though love of a woman is earthly love for ones fellow man
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