CL REVIEWER Individual Task:

 What is the Image of God?

- "Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image,
in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish
of the sea and the birds of the air, over the
livestock, over all the earth and over all the
creatures that move along the ground. So, God
created man in his own image, both male and
female he created them."

Fundamental factors that we are a bodily person

 Rejection
HUMAN REPRODUCTION TAKES PLACE in a total
 Denial
absence of an act personal love between spouse a child
 Sexuality
becomes about more as an of technology, the dignity of
 Gender
a man’s procreation and the sanctity of marriage is lost.
 Status Likewise, sexually will no more matter since what is
Factors of the Rule of Law important in being either a man or a woman are only
their reproductive cell the natural fruit of a human act of
 Sexual Orientation the couple engaged in a full and total given of self into
 Biological Gender another in love. the child becomes the fruit of love,
 Gender Expression therefore, is god’s mirror because he is love, the parents
 Gender Identity become procreators of God.

Marriage was instituted by God for unity and for

procreation in the unity act of couple love should be
 Humanity: Self-worth, Dignity and Common
present because it involves the total giving of one’s self
Humanity
to his partner. The lord’s commissioning to them to be
 Romans 12:2
fruitful and to increase the number and participating
- Do not be conformed to this world, but be
with the lord as procreators through the sacredness of
transformed by the renewal of your mind, that
the sexual act.
by testing you may discern what is the will of
God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. A certain characteristic of nature, it is not wrong
and sinful to enhance the creation of God but if it is being
Human Dignity
exploited and abuse then it is wrong and sinful.
 All people are made in God’s image and likeness
The Vitro, the moral impact of the
- Source of our dignity
implementation, if brought in this world as a result of
 All people deserve total respect
laboratory processing and not a natural reproduction we
- Must have respect for self
will stop him or it further disrespecting the order of
- Must have respect for others
nature. The family should mind along with society would
 All people deserve to be treated with dignity and
accept the concept and meaning of life, love, and
have their human rights respected, no matter who
parenthood to change what is GOD who is love will
they are or whom they love.
eventually be displayed or revegetated to the
background.

Communal life withholds the family together and

marriage as a culmination of once love and commitment
to become an option since a man can just generate or
replicate himself without love and commitment.
 God's Plan for Sexuality  Chastity
- "According to John Paul II, God created the body - means the successful integration of sexuality
as a 'sign' of his own divine mystery," within the person and thus the inner unity of
God asks the people for the accomplishment of man in his bodily and spiritual being.
His plan.
- Because God Himself is the source of the
complementarity of the sexes, when He created
man in the image of Himself, he created both a
male and a female. They were then directed to
"be fruitful and multiply" by becoming "one
flesh."
- This was the original vocation of man and
woman, to unite their bodies and produce life,
but to do so in the "image of God" which means
it must bear the following characteristics: it must
be free, total, faithful and fruitful.
- This teaching was not something invented by the
Church but taken directly from Scripture. From
the book of Genesis onward, "The Bible uses
spousal love more than any other image to help
us understand God's eternal plan for humanity,"
West writes. "God wants to 'marry' us. (Hosea
2:19) to live with us in an 'eternal exchange of
love.'"

 The marital analogy is used because it best

describes what God intends for us — to love as
He loves, and to be united in that love with an
"other" as well as with Him. We were made for
love and communion and this desire is inscribed
into our very bodies.
 The body, in the full truth of its masculinity and
femininity, proclaims “Divine Mystery” in the
world
 Human sexuality is God’s gift to us. We are
created according to God’s image precisely as
“male or female”. It is not in lonely solitude but
rather in relating to others through our sexual
natures that we share in God’s life of love and
creativity.
 Sexuality affects all aspects of human person in
the unity of his body and soul. It especially
concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and
procreate, and in a more general way the
aptitude bonds of communion with others.
(CCC2332)