8. Male and Female He Created Them

"Male and Female He Created Them" 8 The communion of love between husband and wife finds its ultimate source in God. Compendium 71-72 Genesis 2:18-24 "God created mankind in his own image/ male and female he created them" Genesis 1:27 "Maleness" and Femaleness" are part of God's creative design and go the depths of one's very being. Sexual differences do not exist in God. "Being man" and "being woman" are two equal and complementary ways of being human. God created man and woman together and willed each for the other. "Be fertile and multiply" Genesis 1:28 is at the heart of the Churches teaching against contraception. Man and woman created as a "unity of two" in their common humanity, are called to live in a community of love and to mirror to the world the community of love that is in God. God in himself is love. Each of the divine Persons is truly divine but in a way that the other is not. Similarly, male and female are two distinct ways of being fully human.