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What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

Not just chewing things and spitting them out.

“The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ’s words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words ‘one flesh’ would be in modern English.

And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

The inventor of the human machine was telling us that its two halves, the male and the female, were made to be combined together in pairs, not simply on the sexual level, but totally combined.

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go alone with it and make up the total union.


The Christian attitude does not mean that there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating.

It means that you must not isolate that pleasure and try to get it by itself, any more than you ought to try to get the pleasure of taste without swallowing and digesting, by chewing things and spitting them out again.”  

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

…intimacy cannot be isolated.

I have a GIVENNESS NOW not to chew things and spit them out.

What do I have a GIVENNESS NOW to?

A God who might just as well do things slowly as quickly.

“If evolution simply means that a positive thing called an ape turned very slowly into a positive thing called man, then it is stingless for the most orthodox; for a personal God might just as well do things slowly as quickly, especially if, like the Christian God, he were outside time.”  G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy