A marriage should be a sign of God’s love so the way in which God acts out his love, as ‘Since you are God’s children, you must try to be like him. Your life must be controlled by love……Since you are God’s people, it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you.’, Ephesians 5: 1-3, so a married couple’s love should be unconditionally, as God’s love is unconditional, which means that they have to live through difficulties like money problems or a death within the family. Also, as a marriage is a sign of God’s love, they both should respect God, ‘Love is patient and kind, it is not jealous or conceited’, 1 Corinthians 7:5.
Sexual intercourse has the prospective to develop new life, and so the raising of a family. So, as a Roman Catholic or another Christian, they believe they have the duty to create new life as that is God’s intention for marriage, so as a Christian, he or she would perform her duty, so as in Genesis 1:27-28, ‘Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over earth’.
A Christian couple has a duty to make sure their children have the best possible future, so they have to make sacrifices for their children, because otherwise they are not fulfilling their duty as a parent.
As in A01, when Catholics and other Christians believe that a marriage can not be true in the eyes of God until sexual intercourse has taken place, they wait for it to occur naturally so it is correct in the eyes of God. So Corinthians 7:3 confers to this, ‘A man should fulfil his duty as a husband, and a women should fulfil her duty as a wife, and each should satisfy the other’s needs.’
All Roman Catholics and Christians are against sex outside marriage and so they are against one night stands, thus they comprehend that sex is a valuable gift from God so they do not take advantage of it. Christians should follow the belief that they are not selfish or demanding in their sexual relationship.
For that last reason, which leads onto the next belief a Catholic applies into their behaviour, lifestyle and decision making, contraception. Most Roman Catholics are against the idea of contraception in sexual intercourse between the couple.
Consequently, it is noticeable that Roman Catholics and other Christians do apply their beliefs into their behaviour, lifestyle and decision-making into their marriage as best they can.
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