And now to the $65,000 question, how does the Trinity negate the notion of same-sex “marriage?”
Well, let’s briefly recap what we know about the Doctrine of the Trinity:
1. God the Father DID NOT make God the Son. Jesus, was with
God the Father from the beginning and, according to the Council of Nicea, He is
of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father, that is, he is consubstantial
with the Father.
2. The Council of Constantinople unerringly declared that
God is a Trinity, a “tri-unity” of the Three Persons that constitute the one God. It
also decreed that the Holy Spirt “proceeds from the Father and the Son” when it
ultimately fixed the Nicea-Constantinople Creed.
Now, let’s understand one VERY important attribute of God,
and that is that, God is love. This is 100% unquestionable and, if we are going to relate God and marriage, then surely, God as the ideal model for love must be taken into account. And, if it is true that God is love, then
we must also realize that the Three Persons of the Trinity form perfect love.
But, how exactly does this happen?
Simply put, God the Father loves His Son and, since He is perfect, He HAS TO love perfectly. God the Son cannot
deny the love that God the Father gives Him so, as the Son, Jesus, who is also God, perfectly reciprocates
the love of the Father by pouring Himself – all that He is – back to the Father. This love, this mutual exchange of Divine love, is so perfect and so real
that, that very same love, becomes another real and perfect person, which becomes the Holy
Spirit. Hence the reason as to why the Fathers at Constantinople in 381 stated
that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from” the first 2 persons of the Godhead. So, therefore, what we have here is the epitome of what love is: the mutual self-giving of oneself for the love of another which leads to the manifestation of another separate being.
The important thing here to note is that the Doctrine of the Trinity, was established BEFORE Sacred Scripture was canonized and put forth by the Council of Rome in 382 A.D., it was at that synod of bishops, which was headed by Pope St. Damasus I, that the very first set of inspired Scriptures is not only stated but, historically rooted for the early Church. Pope St. Damasus I states that the Church acknowledges 73 books as being inspired, which is the same number of book in the bible that ALL Roman Catholics use to this day. Hence, before the Scriptures were codified into the worship of the early Christians, the fact that God was 3-in-1 was already settled, thus, everything we read in the Scriptures that yields evidence for the Trinity was simply stating an established belief of what the church already knew and not vice versa.
Jesus told us in Matthew 5:48, to "be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect." In Ephesians 5:1 and 1 Corinthians 11:1, St. Paul tells us to imitate Christ and, in 1 Peter 2:21, St. Peter exhorts us to do the same. Why do I mention this? Well Christ told us to be like the Father and, the Apostles tells to imitate Christ, basically, we are to be God-like in our behavior and in our actions. Therefore, if we know that God is love and that we are to imitate God, how does God want us to love?
This question leads us to the crux of my argument. If God intended solely for a married man and woman to be in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, it only makes logical sense that such a union WOULD HAVE TO IMITATE GOD'S LOVE. That is, a man and a woman would have to - in the giving of one to another - produce something that is a real manifestation of their love, in the same way that the Father and the Son's love produces the Holy Spirit.
With heterosexual matrimony, it is quite clear that this is entirely possible: a man loves his wife, the wife loves her husband, the two love each other so much that they physically procreate another real human due to the bond of love that they have. In the same manner that God the Father and God the Son bring forth God the Holy Spirit, a heterosexual couple - through the marital act - beget a child. The love of a husband and a wife is so real that it equates to another real human being. THIS IS WHY THE TRINITY IS THE TRUMP CARD AGAINST SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE." Only through the marital union that God has originally made, can man and woman mirror and simulate God's love as He intended us to do. This is also one of the reasons as to why the Church teaches against sex outside of marriage; if in fact we are called to be imitators of God and, if in fact, all life is Holy, then the act which brings about new life - the act which God ordained for a married couple - must too be treated with the utmost respect. To trivialize human sexuality and not uphold it's proper place within humanity is an atrocity. God gave us the marital union so that we could be like Him, so that a man and a woman can be one (see Mark 10:8 and Matthew 19:5), and, it is in this oneness, that the mystery of who God is and how God loves becomes revealed to us.
When we analyze homosexual "marriages," we find this extremely basic imitation of God is absolutely absent. Two gay men cannot love one another to the extent that their love naturally gives birth to another and two lesbians can never love each other to the point where they can generate another human being that shares in both of their natures. No homosexual act can ever bring about nor produce another real human being and, therefore, no homosexual union can ever mimic God's perfect love. And, while no human can ever attain perfect love on a humanly level, it is categorically obvious that we can, on a humanly level, partake in the Divine Nature through heterosexual union and not through homosexual coupling. Indeed, homosexual "marriages" not only mock God's divine marital ordinance but, it makes the Holy and Blessed Trinity an inoperative, impractical, illogical and, unworkable model for who God is.
For this fundamental reason, it is impossible for any Catholic and any true Christians to ever concede that homosexual "marriages" or unions can be harmonized with true Christianity for they make a caricature of what Holy Matrimony is and, has always been: an indissoluble covenant between a man and a woman which reveals to us who God is and how God loves. And, anyone who chooses to debate this point need not take it up with the teachings of the Church but, with God Himself.
The important thing here to note is that the Doctrine of the Trinity, was established BEFORE Sacred Scripture was canonized and put forth by the Council of Rome in 382 A.D., it was at that synod of bishops, which was headed by Pope St. Damasus I, that the very first set of inspired Scriptures is not only stated but, historically rooted for the early Church. Pope St. Damasus I states that the Church acknowledges 73 books as being inspired, which is the same number of book in the bible that ALL Roman Catholics use to this day. Hence, before the Scriptures were codified into the worship of the early Christians, the fact that God was 3-in-1 was already settled, thus, everything we read in the Scriptures that yields evidence for the Trinity was simply stating an established belief of what the church already knew and not vice versa.
Jesus told us in Matthew 5:48, to "be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect." In Ephesians 5:1 and 1 Corinthians 11:1, St. Paul tells us to imitate Christ and, in 1 Peter 2:21, St. Peter exhorts us to do the same. Why do I mention this? Well Christ told us to be like the Father and, the Apostles tells to imitate Christ, basically, we are to be God-like in our behavior and in our actions. Therefore, if we know that God is love and that we are to imitate God, how does God want us to love?
This question leads us to the crux of my argument. If God intended solely for a married man and woman to be in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, it only makes logical sense that such a union WOULD HAVE TO IMITATE GOD'S LOVE. That is, a man and a woman would have to - in the giving of one to another - produce something that is a real manifestation of their love, in the same way that the Father and the Son's love produces the Holy Spirit.
With heterosexual matrimony, it is quite clear that this is entirely possible: a man loves his wife, the wife loves her husband, the two love each other so much that they physically procreate another real human due to the bond of love that they have. In the same manner that God the Father and God the Son bring forth God the Holy Spirit, a heterosexual couple - through the marital act - beget a child. The love of a husband and a wife is so real that it equates to another real human being. THIS IS WHY THE TRINITY IS THE TRUMP CARD AGAINST SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE." Only through the marital union that God has originally made, can man and woman mirror and simulate God's love as He intended us to do. This is also one of the reasons as to why the Church teaches against sex outside of marriage; if in fact we are called to be imitators of God and, if in fact, all life is Holy, then the act which brings about new life - the act which God ordained for a married couple - must too be treated with the utmost respect. To trivialize human sexuality and not uphold it's proper place within humanity is an atrocity. God gave us the marital union so that we could be like Him, so that a man and a woman can be one (see Mark 10:8 and Matthew 19:5), and, it is in this oneness, that the mystery of who God is and how God loves becomes revealed to us.
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| Right from the beginning, man and woman had a special bond with God and the serpent saw to it that it be undermined. If man and woman share a special bond that allows them to parallel who God is, wouldn't Satan also want to destroy that bond as well? |
When we analyze homosexual "marriages," we find this extremely basic imitation of God is absolutely absent. Two gay men cannot love one another to the extent that their love naturally gives birth to another and two lesbians can never love each other to the point where they can generate another human being that shares in both of their natures. No homosexual act can ever bring about nor produce another real human being and, therefore, no homosexual union can ever mimic God's perfect love. And, while no human can ever attain perfect love on a humanly level, it is categorically obvious that we can, on a humanly level, partake in the Divine Nature through heterosexual union and not through homosexual coupling. Indeed, homosexual "marriages" not only mock God's divine marital ordinance but, it makes the Holy and Blessed Trinity an inoperative, impractical, illogical and, unworkable model for who God is.
For this fundamental reason, it is impossible for any Catholic and any true Christians to ever concede that homosexual "marriages" or unions can be harmonized with true Christianity for they make a caricature of what Holy Matrimony is and, has always been: an indissoluble covenant between a man and a woman which reveals to us who God is and how God loves. And, anyone who chooses to debate this point need not take it up with the teachings of the Church but, with God Himself.
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