Perhaps no other moral field is so pervasively invaded by the idea of God as the field of sexuality. It is easy to understand that in the midst of a prevailing utilitarian ethics where consent is king, the last recourse to avoid an invasion of sexual promiscuity is to appeal God's authority. This move ends up dividing the moral turf between utilitarian morality and obligation morality.
Is that how God interferes with sexual morality? Is He a dictator that imposes his will on earthlings whom God endowed with free will, only to submit their wills to his will?
87. God has stamped his being in the sexual identity of our bodies.
88. The stamp has been disfigured.
89. The human body needs redemption too.
90. Marriages are not made in heaven.
91. The church is the sacrament of Jesus, who is the sacrament of God.
92. When Christians marry, they make a sacrament.
93. Spouses should submit mutually.
94. The sexual act is a sacramental expression of marriage.
95. Christian spouses are called to be prophets.
96. Christian spouses are called to be leaders.
97. Christian spouses are called to be priests.
98. Celibacy for the kingdom is sacramental but not a sacrament.
A creating loving God is a God who wants to communicate his being and his love. The human person is the only creature that participates from these divine attributes. Humans alone share an image and similarity with the Creator. Interestingly it is in the sexual faculties where we experience more intensively the deepest desire to communicate our love and our life. Thus, the sexual faculties in human beings are not merely the result of an aimless evolution of the species, but the mirror of divine faculties. Sexual urges are thus not purely physiological but personal because God and man are personal. God has stamped the image of his own being in the sexual character of the human person.
Thus, the connection between God and sexual morality is not primarily predicated on God's will (because God said so), but on God's nature and human nature. Because acting follows spontaneously from being, once the questions on being are clarified, the questions on acting should follow naturally and spontaneously.
However, it would being dismally naive to think that all we need to do is following our being. The divine "image" in us has been distored and following it needs a restoration that lies beyond the human capacity. Only God can restore his image in us by sending his Son as both exemplary model and executive restorer of such image and only a spiritual and real participation in his being will convert us into the sexual beings we were intended to be.