About marriage and procreation

[theCardinalbird]

When a couple in marriage have sexual intercourse (ordered towards procreation) can it be said that when this man and this woman do this act, they are helping God in the creation of life? Is this one of the reasons why marriage is so special and so important?

 

[Maximilian75]

Yes. Absolutlely.

 

[theCardinalbird]

Yes. Absolutlely.

Could we say that God creates the soul while the man and the woman create the body? Or is that false?

 

[Maximilian75]

I would say that’s correct, yes.

 

[pianistclare]

Catechism 1617:

The entire Christian life bears the mark of the spousal love of Christ and the Church. Already Baptism, the entry into the People of God, is a nuptial mystery; it is so to speak the nuptial bath.111 which precedes the wedding feast, the Eucharist. Christian marriage in its turn becomes an efficacious sign, the sacrament of the covenant of Christ and the Church. Since it signifies and communicates grace, marriage between baptized persons is a true sacrament of the New Covenant.

 

[Blue_Horizon]

Yes that’s the traditional view - though the making of the body has become complicated with the discovery of female ova about 100 years ago.