Since God is Love; we are made in His image and likeness, and are designed to reflect the essence of Divine Love. Because of the Fall, we are affected by Original Sin and have a distorted understanding of what love and beauty means.
We must always understand that The Four Loves (Agape, Eros, Storge, and Philia), go outward toward another person. Love is true when it is self-giving (outward), and it becomes selfish when it turns in toward itself.
Since God made sex; it is good. God wants us to have pleasurable sex with each other. The Church has spoken throughout the centuries on the importance of Eros.
As we can see from St. Paul, St. John, and Pope Francis, love is something far deeper. Love is not some “pie in the sky” concept. The Greeks beautifully divided love into 4 categories.
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