Sexual Moralality

The question arises: can the Mother Church ever be wrong in guiding Her children? The answer to this can be found by asking if a parent can be wrong in guiding a child. However, Jesus Christ did not say: what is bound in heaven will be bound on earth and what is loose in heaven will be loose on earth. He said: what thou shalt bound on earth will be bound in heaven and what thou shalt loose on earth will be loose in heaven (Mt.16:19). There is a subtle difference in these two statements.

The first one implies that what precepts God has in heaven will prevail in His church. The second implies that what laws His church makes He will accept.

For example, He has no prohibition to eating meat on Good Friday. God has nothing against a woman becoming a priestess or a priest (priestess) getting married. Nor does God have anything against someone having a mistress or master (lover), for King David had them (2Sam.5:13). He has no prohibition to practicing birth control, if one’s reasons for doing so are for love. God has nothing against seeking pleasure for the sake of pleasure as long as no one is hurt.

These are all laws and teachings of the Mother Church which one must follow until She changes them. One must not forget that He gave everyone the law they must obey.

What this means is that the bishops of the Catholic Church must answer to God for how they guide the Mother Church. If they give their flocks heavy burdens or they prevent the children of God entrusted to their care from growing spiritually, then they must answer to God for this.

In areas of controversy, they are the guides which one should listen to and follow their advice.

Our Lord did not say to obey the bishops except when one believes them to be wrong. He simply said: “Obey your prelates and be subject to them.” If they are doing wrong themselves, then the children of God can only do as they are told, not as the bishops do. Even if they are wrong, then one must still obey them and wait for our Lord to change the direction of His Catholic Church. One cannot abandon God’s ship while it is still out at sea. This is putting faith, hope and love in God, not in one’s own beliefs.

However, the bishops cannot command the children of God to break the law. Nor can the bishops of the Catholic Church command one to help them obtain some mundane goal. To obtain some materialistic goal, the most that they can do is to calmly and peacefully make a request to the children of God entrusted to their care for help.

God only has one law: Love thy neighbor (Gal.5:14). His law is the same today as it was yesterday and will be the tomorrow. His law is the same for all people all over the world. His law has never changed and never will.

For example, it has always been against God’s law to take another person’s life and it will always be against His law. It has always been against God’s law to lie and to steal and it will always be against His law. It has always been against His law to be prejudice and bigoted and it will always be against His law.

But a different mandate may be found in the laws of the Mother Church. For example, She presently has laws against women becoming priests, against divorce, birth control and other methods of planned parenthood. She has laws against safe, consensual adult nudity and sex outside the marriage. Whether or not the Catholic Church repeals these laws is for the Holy See in Rome to decide.

Never-the-less, these latter laws are not found in the Golden Rule (Mt.7:12). They have never been and never will be (1Cor.6:18). For sin is an evil act committed against God or one’s neighbor. But sexual intercourse is an act of materialism committed against one’s own body.

This is because sexual intercourse is a biological act and by its evolutionary nature cannot be evil.

This is because sexual intercourse is a biological act and by its evolutionary nature cannot be evil.Therefore, there is no sin involved in it, although there may be some materialism involved if there is no love. The sin and guilt come only through the laws that were made by man, not God.

It was male chauvinism, prejudice and ignorance that created such laws thousands of years ago before the time of Abraham. Eventually these laws were incorporated into the marriage and then they became part of the social customs. It is still male and female intolerance and pride that causes one mate to be owned by the other partner. However, a man does not own his wife, nor does a woman own her husband.

Marriage is a partnership and each partner of the marriage should be free to enjoy the life given to them by God. If they love each other then neither should have fears of losing the other’s love. Neither partner should be concerned about losing their mate to some other interest, even if such should be with another person.

Indeed, such relationships should not be looked upon as an insult to the marriage – as most people do – for these affairs are actually a blessing. If there is love in the marriage then such trysts will only strengthen the bond. For if one’s spouse has a relationship with another person and does not leave one then it might just be because one’s spouse loves one. But if there is no love then there is no marriage and such trials will only dissolve a relationship that had already deteriorated.

If one feels insulted because one’s spouse has had a tryst with another person then it is one’s own pride that has caused the insult, not the behavior of one’s spouse. If one feels insulted by their mate’s actions, it is because of one’s own beliefs about one’s own ability to perform sexually. It is tantamount to saying: “Once you’ve had sex with me you won’t want it with anyone else.” This latter is full of pride.

But regardless of the reason, unfaithfulness to one’s spouse has very little to with sex and sexual intercourse. One is faithful to one’s spouse by being there in times of need, not necessarily by abstaining from sexual intercourse outside the marriage.

Studies into the evolution of sex and desire have shown that some people have a greater sex drive and are more sexual than others. Also, sexual intercourse with someone other than one’s mate is a product of male and female human sexual development. Thus, sex outside the marriage is not an evil act, nor is it an insult to the marriage. It is one’s own pride and male and female chauvinism that makes it an insult, not the behavior of one’s spouse.

However, all this is not to give credence to wanton promiscuity. Marriage is sacred and the parties of the marriage should not indulge in adult nudity and sex unsafely and without full consent of all involved.

As stated above, God only has one law. If there is one law by which God judges all mankind then there must be only one universal morality by which God also judges all mankind. This morality must be the same for all mankind — past, present and future. It cannot be one morality for one people and another morality for another people.

For example, if it were not immoral for King David to have several mistresses (2Sam.5:13) then it is not immoral for anyone else to have lovers. This universal morality is of one’s own heart; it is of one’s own conscience. If one is pure of heart then whatever one does sexually is moral and lawful as long as that which one does is safe, consensual and non-exploitive between all parties involved.

However, our Lord’s Mother Church has made laws that need to be obeyed and God has accepted these as though they were His will. For He stated that what thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and what thou shall loose on earth shall be loose in heaven. Guided by the Holy Spirit, His Mother Church made the law for the protection of His children and they must obey their spiritual directors (Heb.13:17).

Would one allow a small child to play with a loaded gun? Of course not! Would one allow one’s teenage child to indulge in uninhibited sexual exploitation, for such is like playing with a loaded gun? Of course not! However, would one force one’s adult child to obey these same laws, or would one allow one’s adult child to make their own decisions about what is safe and good?

The same may be said of mankind today. Mankind today is spiritually older and spiritually more mature. Today mankind does not need someone to tell them what they can and cannot do within a marriage, whether to have children or not, whether even to stay married or not, or whether to have several mates or lovers or not to have them. They do not need someone making restrictive laws that must be obeyed and preventing them from enjoying the life given to them by God.

Earlier societies may have needed these laws and restrictions because they did not have the technology, the knowledge or the medical advancements to indulge in such things. But today human beings are spiritually old enough and mature enough that they do not need a lot of cumbersome laws and regulations to guide them to Jesus Christ.

What the children of God need are deacons, priests and bishops who teach through example by living exemplary lives. One member of the cloth living an exemplary life is a beacon for all to follow but one member of the cloth living a depraved life is worse that numerous atheists.

Just as a mother bird releases its fledgling from the nest when it is old enough, the children of God only need to be set free from their protective confinement to obey God’s law of love. They only need to be honest and just with their neighbor as outlined in the second book of this trilogy.

Sex, Nudity and the Law