Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
-1 Corinthians 6
the two are united into one
-Genesis 2
Fireproof Clip - Salt and Pepper
Oxytocin
What is happening here? What does it mean to become united into one? What does it look like to have two people have one flesh?
Is this all spiritual? Or is there something physical happening here?
Did God design our bodies to live a certain way? Did he build us for relationships to have a certain order?
Oxytocin
Eddie Murphy - Raw (1987)
despite Eddie's perspective on the topic and his very brash way of putting it, Eddie has stumbled upon something very profound. Why is it that women bond to some men? What has happened? Aside from Eddie's take on what to do with this sort of faithfulness it has discovered a part of God's beautiful design of relationships.
Chemical Formula: C43H66N12O12S2
Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest
Sheryl mentions the first cut being the deepest but fails to understand exactly why that is. Just listening to her lyrics you can see something spiritual has taken place. A sort of salt and pepper tear if you will.
Oxytocin is a mammalian neurohypophysial hormone that acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain.
Scientists have found many interesting effects of the chemical.
In the prairie vole, oxytocin released into the brain of the female during sexual activity is important for forming a monogamous pair bond with her sexual partner. Vasopressin appears to have a similar effect in males. Oxytocin has a role in social behaviors in many species, so it likely also does in humans.
Oxytocin is a chemical that is released in women during orgasm. It helps promote monogamous bonds with the sexual partner.
Oxytocin affects social distance between adult males and females, and may be responsible at least in part for romantic attraction and subsequent monogamous pair bonding. An oxytocin nasal spray caused men in a monogamous relationship, but not single men, to increase the distance between themselves and an attractive woman during a first encounter by 10 to 15 centimeters. The researchers suggested that oxytocin may help promote fidelity within monogamous relationships.
It is also released during childbirth to bond the mother to her child.
Oxytocin evokes feelings of contentment, reductions in anxiety, and feelings of calmness and security around the mate. This suggests oxytocin may be important for the inhibition of the brain regions associated with behavioral control, fear, and anxiety, thus allowing orgasm to occur. Oxytocin also functions to protect against stress.
Oxytocin helps the women feel safe around her partner. This chemical tells the women that who she is with is safe and trustworthy.
In a risky investment game, experimental subjects given nasally administered oxytocin displayed "the highest level of trust" twice as often as the control group. Subjects who were told they were interacting with a computer showed no such reaction, leading to the conclusion that oxytocin was not merely affecting risk-aversion. Nasally administered oxytocin has also been reported to reduce fear, possibly by inhibiting the amygdala (which is thought to be responsible for fear responses).
In some studies, high levels of plasma oxytocin have been correlated with romantic attachment. For example, if a couple is separated for a long period of time, anxiety can increase due to the lack of physical affection. Oxytocin may aid romantically attached couples by decreasing their feelings of anxiety when they are separated.
Oxytocin is the glue between the salt and pepper shakers. It is the reason women will trust men when they say "sorry" for infidelity. It is the reason the first cut is the deepest.
We aren't build to experience this chemical reaction with several different people.
It is meant to be released in a very safe, trusting, intimate relationship with one person.
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
-Genesis 2
When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went down to the region of Judea east of the Jordan River. Large crowds followed him there, and he healed their sick. Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?” “Haven't you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
-Matthew 19
What is Paul saying to the Corinthian church about having sex with prostitutes? Sexual Immorality in general?
I don't believe God or Paul have a problem with marrying a prostitute (See the book of Hosea) I think the problem is having sex with someone, become one with someone, and then splitting apart that bond that is created. Sex has a context. Sex has an order to be fully enjoyed, fully experienced. That context is a covenant between one man, one woman, and God until death.
It's interesting the things we do in life not knowing exactly what we are doing. We throw rocks into water not knowing where the wake will go.
Sigur Rós - Ég anda
(I took all the information about the chemical Oxytocin from Wikipedia)
-1 Corinthians 6
the two are united into one
-Genesis 2
Fireproof Clip - Salt and Pepper
Oxytocin
What is happening here? What does it mean to become united into one? What does it look like to have two people have one flesh?
Is this all spiritual? Or is there something physical happening here?
Did God design our bodies to live a certain way? Did he build us for relationships to have a certain order?
Oxytocin
Eddie Murphy - Raw (1987)
despite Eddie's perspective on the topic and his very brash way of putting it, Eddie has stumbled upon something very profound. Why is it that women bond to some men? What has happened? Aside from Eddie's take on what to do with this sort of faithfulness it has discovered a part of God's beautiful design of relationships.
Chemical Formula: C43H66N12O12S2
Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest
Sheryl mentions the first cut being the deepest but fails to understand exactly why that is. Just listening to her lyrics you can see something spiritual has taken place. A sort of salt and pepper tear if you will.
Oxytocin is a mammalian neurohypophysial hormone that acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain.
Scientists have found many interesting effects of the chemical.
In the prairie vole, oxytocin released into the brain of the female during sexual activity is important for forming a monogamous pair bond with her sexual partner. Vasopressin appears to have a similar effect in males. Oxytocin has a role in social behaviors in many species, so it likely also does in humans.
Oxytocin is a chemical that is released in women during orgasm. It helps promote monogamous bonds with the sexual partner.
Oxytocin affects social distance between adult males and females, and may be responsible at least in part for romantic attraction and subsequent monogamous pair bonding. An oxytocin nasal spray caused men in a monogamous relationship, but not single men, to increase the distance between themselves and an attractive woman during a first encounter by 10 to 15 centimeters. The researchers suggested that oxytocin may help promote fidelity within monogamous relationships.
It is also released during childbirth to bond the mother to her child.
Oxytocin evokes feelings of contentment, reductions in anxiety, and feelings of calmness and security around the mate. This suggests oxytocin may be important for the inhibition of the brain regions associated with behavioral control, fear, and anxiety, thus allowing orgasm to occur. Oxytocin also functions to protect against stress.
Oxytocin helps the women feel safe around her partner. This chemical tells the women that who she is with is safe and trustworthy.
In a risky investment game, experimental subjects given nasally administered oxytocin displayed "the highest level of trust" twice as often as the control group. Subjects who were told they were interacting with a computer showed no such reaction, leading to the conclusion that oxytocin was not merely affecting risk-aversion. Nasally administered oxytocin has also been reported to reduce fear, possibly by inhibiting the amygdala (which is thought to be responsible for fear responses).
In some studies, high levels of plasma oxytocin have been correlated with romantic attachment. For example, if a couple is separated for a long period of time, anxiety can increase due to the lack of physical affection. Oxytocin may aid romantically attached couples by decreasing their feelings of anxiety when they are separated.
Oxytocin is the glue between the salt and pepper shakers. It is the reason women will trust men when they say "sorry" for infidelity. It is the reason the first cut is the deepest.
We aren't build to experience this chemical reaction with several different people.
It is meant to be released in a very safe, trusting, intimate relationship with one person.
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
-Genesis 2
When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went down to the region of Judea east of the Jordan River. Large crowds followed him there, and he healed their sick. Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife for just any reason?” “Haven't you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’” And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’ Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.”
-Matthew 19
What is Paul saying to the Corinthian church about having sex with prostitutes? Sexual Immorality in general?
I don't believe God or Paul have a problem with marrying a prostitute (See the book of Hosea) I think the problem is having sex with someone, become one with someone, and then splitting apart that bond that is created. Sex has a context. Sex has an order to be fully enjoyed, fully experienced. That context is a covenant between one man, one woman, and God until death.
It's interesting the things we do in life not knowing exactly what we are doing. We throw rocks into water not knowing where the wake will go.
Sigur Rós - Ég anda
(I took all the information about the chemical Oxytocin from Wikipedia)