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RELATIONSHIP CONFIGURATION CHURCH Mindful that some will continue to have visions and that the Spirit will teach everything, The Relationship Configuration Church pursues a more complete understanding of the Recreation-event centred around the earthly life of One Infinite Love-Embodied in Nazareth. Our faith understands : * God
unconditionally loves all creation, including humanity who were fashioned,
and born perfectly, in
God's image. * Human
inheritance of distress, from others similarly affected, impacts love of God,
neighbour
and stranger. * A God-given
ability to discharge distress, heals. Historic Christianity has drawn attention to the peace of God and encouraged such contemplation through a focus on beauty via art, music, liturgical dance and architecture, alongside its social care of humanity. Perhaps as a contrast, church marriage links to Moses' commandments where hard-heartedness classified female humans as possessions. Theft of them potentially inhibited the wealth inheritance secured by marriage. Where wealth inequality is a source of conflict, marriage has destabilised both the church and its claim to pursue the peace of God. Some of Jesus of Nazareth's words have been read as 'instructions' on marriage. Alternatively, those words are simple 'observations' on human relationship. Interpretation-free, the words then speak for themselves and define adultery as simply symptomatic of the underlying sin: viewing female humans as possessions. Romantic possession appeared to continue the patriarchal norm described above, if only God can possess those Divinely created equal in the image of the Divine. Further, if Incarnate Wisdom was tasked to announce the Reign of God, with its inheritance seemingly barred to the wealthy camel, the Divine mission appeared to destabilise patriarchy - and marriage. Three gospels declared "do not marry". The Fourth's first miracle involved wine. The configuration of the relationship there being celebrated, in terms of numbers of partners and their sex, was immaterial. The Fourth also revealed the identity of The Resurrection, Whose eternal presence secured the revelation, "do not marry". Further evidence has been documented where things were different in the beginning at Creation before the male domination of patriarchy began. There, humanity was identified as created equally in the image of God, Whose sex-unity paradoxically contained sexual difference. God is love and God joined lovers, not marriage. Uninterrupted love-joining of indeterminate, thereby variable, duration was best. The gospel's tendency toward unlimited love-configurations featured seven husbands, five husbands plus another male, five female virgins plus one male; and perhaps most significantly by Jesus’ quarine relationship of two females and two males. The Reign of God's child-priority reverses patriarchy, by countering its patriarchal household order. The Reign of God's inclusivity might prove more attractive than family, the latter's recent reification having occurred in 1921. We celebrate sex, sexuality and relationship freed from
ecclesial power and control. * We celebrate humanity equally created in the image of
God. * We celebrate sexuality as God-given. * We celebrate all relationship configurations which
originate in, and manifest, God as un-limitable. |
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