Religion and human relationships

Marriage and marriage ceremonies
1. Marriage ceremonies
  1. 1. Introduction explains Christian marriage. Questions asked to ensure the marriage is legal.
    1. 2. Vows – promises which the bride and groom make committing themselves to one another.
      1. 3. Rings – exchanged.
        4. Official statement for the bride and groom are now married.
        5. Prayers and blessings for the couple and then for the whole congregation.
        6. Signing of the marriage register, and receiving of the marriage certificate – a legal requirement.
2. Ways in which the ceremonies reflect and emphasise Christian teaching about marriage
  1. God made Eve as a partner for Adam. The Adam and Eve Creation Story teaches that marriage is a gift from God, and a part of God’s plan for human beings.
  2. “You shall not commit adultery.”
3. Responses to civil partnerships
  1. “If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.” (Leviticus 20:13)
  2. "... man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:20-24)
  3. “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Neither the sexually immoral nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders ...” (1 Corinthians 6:8-10)
  4. “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (Leviticus 18:22)
Divorce
1. Beliefs about the ethics of divorce and remariage
  1. Old Testament
    1. “I hate divorce, says the Lord.”
  2. Jesus
    1. Anyone who divorces his wife and a marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man she commits adultery.”
    2. "Anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.”
    3. if her husband dies, she is legally a free woman and does not commit adultery if she marries another man.”
Sexual relationships and contraception
1. Beliefs about sexual relationships
  1. Jesus+Bible: Marriage only appropriate place for sex.
  2. “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth…..”
  3. “ You shall not commit adultery.”
  4. Roman Catholic
    1. “sex actually requires marriage for the realisation of its potential.”
2. Beliefs about contraception
  1. Roman Catholic
    1. “Every marriage act (sex) must remain open to the transmission of life”
    2. Using contraception may make people more promiscuous, preferring sex to love, seeing others as sex objects and not for who they are.
    3. Sex is spoiled if it is not an expression of love between married people, or if there is no chance of children being conceived.
    4. Natural contraception is OK
  2. Church of England
    1. “ This planning of the family should be agreed by husband and wife, and should be the result of a positive choice before God.”

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