Gender ramble

Hey Greg,


My initial belief is that it is too long to cover in one class, most will not read it over later, unless in a group setting, but it is not too difficult to read and understand.

In my experience the subject leads to two main points/questions, and it did again in recent weeks, weeks spent covering marriage and it's collateral issues. Discussion on marriage leads to the similarity of the intent of NFP, and contraception, both wishing a child not to come as a result of the act, and the likeness of means, or object by which this wish is pursued, NFP measure and tracking of symptoms of fertile periods vs the pill. The spirit of the act seemed the same to them.



Second, same sex leads to our inability to state what distinguishes the genders, beyond the physical, and why that truth or lie makes such a relationship incapable of being sealed, or realized in the Holy Spirit. I think the gender answer lies in the analogy of being, where what a gender is participates in Gods being, and specifically in his points of procession. Somewhere along the lines of "being"/"is" and "being of"/"ishah". (the ishah word I think is the term used in Genesis for man and woman as noted in theology of the body.

So the Holy Spirit can take up the union of the two priniples of gender that exist in man and woman as spouses, which participate in God insofar as in the fusty procession there is "being and being of", that allows the Holy Spirit to take up that relation of the spouses into himself, as it overlays the truth that is already there in him as who he is and how he proceeds from the Father and the Son. The giving and receiving of being at this fundamental level us the relationship wherein Gift occurs. Where the Holy Spirit proceeds.

This fundamental relationship is not present in same sex relations at the level of being and so cannot be taken up into the very being of The Holy Spirit, nor made one in him and by him, as the seal of the marital bond.



Well thats my ramble. Gotta get to work.

Bob