Of all the awesome powers of love, sexual love is perhaps the most formidable.
Sex does not only embed the impulse to bond for life, but also with the creation of life itself through the passing down of the parent’s genes and lineage.
Many nonreligious wrongly believe that religions teach that sex itself is wrong or bad. This is not entirely correct.
Before the Fall, God had created sex to be experienced greatly between spouses. After the Fall, sex was deemed as dirty because it brought about sin into the world of God’s heaven.
Sex in a committed relationship of a man and woman bonding the two partners together in deep communion and joy.
As a matter of fact, sexuality itself taps into the deepest aspects of being human.
It is a power as deep and elemental as the wind or the sea and just as impossible to tame or even fully comprehend.
Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to educate for true love which imparts insight about sexuality and coaches people how to direct this marvelous force created by God.
When sex is within the rightful place of marriage, it is an expression of the deepest trust and affection. It bonds
Sex outside of marriage, on the other hand, is like a fire outside of its hearth. Outside a godly union, sex becomes a threat to all concerned.
Since sex is a highly pleasurable and primal urge, one should be well disciplined about its power to prevent the conscience to be overridden by
Of all the awesome powers of love, sexual love is perhaps the most formidable.
Sex does not only embed the impulse to bond for life, but also with the creation of life itself through the passing down of the parent’s genes and lineage.
Many nonreligious wrongly believe that religions teach that sex itself is wrong or bad. This is not entirely correct.
Before the Fall, God had created sex to be experienced greatly between spouses. After the Fall, sex was deemed as dirty because it brought about sin into the world of God’s heaven.
Sex in a committed relationship of a man and woman bonding the two partners together in deep communion and joy.
As a matter of fact, sexuality itself taps into the deepest aspects of being human.
It is a power as deep and elemental as the wind or the sea and just as impossible to tame or even fully comprehend.
Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to educate for true love which imparts insight about sexuality and coaches people how to direct this marvelous force created by God.
When sex is within the rightful place of marriage, it is an expression of the deepest trust and affection. It bonds
Sex outside of marriage, on the other hand, is like a fire outside of its hearth. Outside a godly union, sex becomes a threat to all concerned.
Since sex is a highly pleasurable and primal urge, one should be well disciplined about its power to prevent the conscience to be overridden by complusiveness.
Spouses’ physical communion is the origin of families that in turn are the schools for learning love and what it means to be human.
The destructive outcome of sex outside of marriage is the main reason religious traditions and societies provide strict guidelines for sexual expression.
“The moral man,” reads a Confucianist text, “finds the moral law beginning in the relation between man and woman” (Doctrine of the Mean 12).
Even with all the education and warnings, it is a challenge to keep sexuality within the service of true love.
Because sexuality brings great pleasure, it invites single people every manner to misuse it out of the context of God's love.
Once no marital sex introduces distorted sexual attitudes and behaviors to the person who uses their whole being in the act, these ideals become deeply rooted and hard to change.
In an ever-growing society of ‘whatever goes’, it has become more difficult to celebrate sexuality while at the same times staying away from selfishness.
The Fall involved a man and a woman’s selfish desires away from God’s ideal.
Sex is an instinctual urge, yet it allows a couple to co-create an eternal being along with God.
Sex craves bodily expression of the person and a sensual play, and a fount of carnal delight but it is also an impulse towards oneness.
At the same time it invites an individual the possibility of moral and spiritual growth within the realm of the spouses’ and parents’ world or realm of heart.
God and Human Sexuality
The sexual act has great and unique significance to the Creator.
This is fully understood when we consider lovemaking between a fully mature husband and wife.
Such individuals will already have achieved unity of their mind and body, including their word and actions. Each will stand as a living mirror of the fullness of the Divine Parent’s heart and character.
Their character will resonate with the greater integrity within God.
Each person would be in communion with Him and attract His joy and blessing, but this would be amplified when they entered the marriage bed.
At the moment they are united sexually, the spirit and flesh join in their deepest oneness. Therefore, the couple would be an even greater reflection of the Divine than the moment before.
Through a marital couple’s lovemaking, it represents the celebration of self-giving.
Naturally, since the couple was fulfilling the purpose of sexual intercourse to be experienced inside a godly marriage, God would want to participate in such a beautiful tribute to His own nature of unselfish love.
Also, through the couple’s sexual union, it resembles the Creator’s masculine and feminine natures that manifest in the world.
God delights in the opposites represented in the man and woman’s sexual play which echo the same harmony of extremes found within Himself.
A husband and wife union, spirit begetting spirit through the flesh, gives rise to a son or daughter, an eternal spiritual being. This is perhaps the most singular sacred phenomenon experienced in earthly life.
Vertical force of love
Through marital coupling, God’s vertical love expands horizontally on earth through a husband and wife’s passionate embrace representing the most potent kind of horizontal love.
This extends into the future through the power of conception and lineage.
Reverend Moon emphasizes that God is the third partner in the marriage bed of a true husband and wife. He states that marriage is the most sacred place where heaven and earth come together and rejoice.
This view is also echoed in the Jewish writings that declare that the feminine aspect of God is present in marital relations noting God has both feminine and masculine qualities.
The Tantric yoga tradition speaks of sexual union as clearing all the body’s charkas and opening a person up to higher energies.
Religious traditions prohibit fornication, adultery, homosexuality and lesser offenses and uphold the holiness of sexuality.
One can argue that these standards highlights the sacredness, the unique importance and beauty of sexuality. Therefore, through repressing sexual urges outside of marriage, is a tribute to a positive view of sex and not a repressive notion as thought of by nonreligious.
In the Bible, even the older man is reminded, “Let your fountain be blessed and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love” Proverbs 5.18-19
It is also recognized that sexuality is corrupted and misdirected to become idolatry of the body and an abuse of power.
Sexual desires that are not controlled or disciplined reduces people to things to be exploited and possessed, not truly loved.
There is a modern saying that we have gone from a society that uses people and love things.
Also, sex outside of commitment is bond to become compulsive. This is why the joys of sexual love are bound to the moral responsibilities of a committed marriage as God intended from the beginning.
Return for Tomorrow’s Post: Why Sexual Morality is Golden
This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, “Educating for True Love” written by a team of writers to explain the philosophy of Reverend Sun Myung Moon on marriage and love.
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