Comments on: What is the Point of Marriage? Part 3: To Teach Us About God

By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:06:39 +0000

I believe that both partners should be spiritual. Only then they are able to trust and believe in each other. When one is spiritual and the other is not, then there seems to be ego clashes.

By: Divorcing the Church and Doubting Marriage — Project M

Divorcing the Church and Doubting Marriage — Project M — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:04:27 +0000

[...] a series of posts entitled “What is the Point of Marriage?” I gave answers like “to teach us about God” and “to teach us what it means to be human.” I’m still pretty happy with [...]

By: Kathleen Quiring

Kathleen Quiring — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:36:50 +0000

Ah yes; excellent point, Elizabeth. God is above and beyond gender. And yet I still thinks he gives us hints about his nature through gender. I do think there’s a clue to God in masculinity and femininity although of course he is far more than that, too.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:30:49 +0000

All three of your points are fantastic!!

To build on your masculine/feminine point, I have to say that I don’t just think of God as a combination of masculine and feminine traits, but a being so completely above us that our understandings of masculine and feminine are drops in the bucket. Does that make sense? It’s like “He” certainly is both masculine and feminine, and yet so much more than that. Man and woman are both sneak peeks at His nature, and the rest of it is just unfathomable to us.

By: Kathleen Quiring

Kathleen Quiring — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:12:39 +0000

I totally think this is related, Anita! I agree that our relationship with God brings us closer to the people in our lives just as our relationships with people can help us to get closer to God.

I think you made more sense than me here.

By: Kathleen Quiring

Kathleen Quiring — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:26:29 +0000

Thanks, Annalea, that’s what we were going for!

By: Annalea

Annalea — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:16:11 +0000

Kathleen, dearest, are the pics of you and your hubby? Luv em! You look like a medieval princess!

Annalea

By: Anita

Anita — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:44:37 +0000

I’m not entirely sure if this is related or not, but I’ll give it a shot anyway. I just heard a speaker talk about how some people won’t worship God because he comes across as such an ego-maniac. What our speaker suggested, in a nutshell, was that God knows what satisfies us most and that is what he requires. He knows that when we worship him, we are most satisfied and this is a small reason for why he requires our praise. After this talk, which took awhile to digest, my boyfriend and I had a conversation about another implication of this new revelation. He told me that the more he seemed to get closer to God, the more he was enabled to feel a deeper love for me as well. I thought this was an incredible and very true way of looking at it. God is love and when we open up to that, we can experience it more on earth as well.
Sorry about the essay, and I hope that made sense.

By: Kathleen Quiring

Kathleen Quiring — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:18:59 +0000

Wow, you guys all add so much. Thanks for all your great insights!

By: Brian Killian

Brian Killian — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:43:28 +0000

As marriage becomes family, that too tells us something about God. Love wants to overflow, to grow and bear fruit. God’s people, the Church, is patterned on the family. For Catholics, we like to say the family is the domestic church. But one can also switch it around and say that the Church is God’s family, His people.

And what do we learn in God’s great family? Like the human family, we learn to bear with one another, forgiveness, virtue, sacrifice, the true meaning of love, and many other things that people have been mentioning in the comments.

Nice post.