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Essay On Spousal Love

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Love is the dominant emotion in the Multiverse. Its opposite, hate, has historically devastated humanity on the planet. But love has survived and can be observed in all life. In the Judeo-Christian ethic love to God and love to humanity are supreme. Love is expressed in different ways. To those who believe in God His love is supreme and bonds them to Him. For those who do not have a concept of God, or deny His existence, there is no barrier to love and to be loved. God loves them without being requited. Love between parent and child has a splendor that the warmth of a home magnifies, but the lack of which needs not diminish. Love between friends can express itself with great strength: “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13 KJV). The same can be said of other love relationships.

In this book I will discuss the spousal relationship, a significant part of human love established at Creation. Spousal love is so strong that the partners bind their entire future lives together, and is the only love that has …show more content…

It will be an immense religious discussion within primitive redemptive Judaism, which I consider is the same religion in continuum with primitive redemptive Christianity. The Pentateuchal and Pauline proscriptions of homosexuality I see as identical, except that Paul recognized lesbianism while the Pentateuch is silent about it. Sexuality will be discussed within the milieu of Creation and Redemption. The Tanakian (Old Testament) idea of life and love is congruent with that of the B’rit Hadashah (New Testament). The religious discussion will seem tedious to some. I do not apologize to my secular readers for this religious orientation as the objections to the same sex spousal relationship come mainly from the religious sectors of society. I seek to placate and convince them of their

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