If virginity and chastity is important in Christianity, why did God give genital to humans? Why are some Christians married?

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By having genital and lust some people lose their virginity and chastity. By marrying, some Christians lose their virginity if they had one.

So why would God give genital to humans? Isn’t genital the threat of the relationship between God and humans according to Christianity?
 
I see this is just another variation on the “Why didn’t God make humans perfect and sinless already instead of giving us free will and the capacity for sin” theme. As a whole bunch of threads have already stated, God expects us to make some effort too, that’s why he doesn’t just make us already perfect and unable to sin. Also, with all due respect, it’s better to accept that God has his own reasons why He does things and not always be asking “Why didn’t God do this differently?” There’s a lot of things we don’t fully know or understand about God and we need to have faith and accept them.

You might as well ask why God didn’t just make us without arms and hands because a lot of people commit violent acts with their arms and hands and if we didn’t have arms and hands then we wouldn’t be able to shoot or stab or punch people with them.

Genitalia are used for good purposes too, such as procreation and strengthening the bond between married couples. If no humans ever procreated, then the human race would die off and we never would have had any humans past Adam and Eve. Obviously this wasn’t God’s plan to have only 2 humans.

Also, if humans didn’t have the capacity for sex, then virginity or chastity wouldn’t be anything special because everybody would be a chaste virgin. God doesn’t value virginity and chastity just for their own sake, he values the effort that humans make not to give in to their instinct and temptation to have sex. God also doesn’t have a problem with married couples having sex and losing their virginity; it’s what married couples are supposed to do.
 
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No. Concupiscence is the threat. Our broken nature, our tendency to incline toward sin and evil. Failing to love God first and foremost, and preferring to turn from Him so as to satisfy the desires of the flesh is the problem.
 
Needy1 said:
By having genital and lust some people lose their virginity and chastity. By marrying, some Christians lose their virginity if they had one.

So why would God give genital to humans? Isn’t genital the threat of the relationship between God and humans according to Christianity?
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I would go back to Genesis 1 and 2 where God blesses mankind and tells them to be fruitful and multiply, but does so within the confines of marriage. Your question seems to blur the distinction between practicing sex within the limits prescribed by God, in other words being chaste, and never having sex at all (which isn’t commanded by God to begin with).
 
First of all, I am just trying to be helpful. I mean nothing rude by this.

I see here a pattern of questioning, when it comes down to it, why we have bodies that function in material, carnal ways that some might find incompatible with a spiritual state — bodily functions, digestion, and now, possession of generative organs.

We just have to understand that God, in His Providence, made us this way. We are not incorporeal, angelic beings. We have a body. We exist in nature. In nature, the body functions a certain way. This is not dirty or shameful. Bodily functions just exist. Our Lord had them. Our Lady had them. All the saints of the Church (aside from the angels) had them. Our Lord understood all of this when, for instance, He instituted the Eucharist. He knew about digestion. It is just the way we are.

This is not something we should even be questioning. I urge the OP to reflect on this.
 
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I see here a pattern of questioning, when it comes down to it, why we have bodies that function in material, carnal ways that some might find incompatible with a spiritual state — bodily functions, digestion, and now, possession of generative organs.

We just have to understand that God, in His Providence, made us this way. We are not incorporeal, angelic beings. We have a body. We exist in nature. In nature, the body functions a certain way. This is not dirty or shameful.
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I would note that the Albigensian heresy which the Church denounced centuries ago was based on very similar ideas: that the body and material matter on Earth and anything associated with it, like procreative sex, was bad and dirty. The Church definitely does not embrace such ideas.
 
If God does not want us to steal than why is it so easy to do it sometimes? And murder, and… you name it.
As long as you know God’s laws then this is answer. Do that.
 
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