then in Augustine's mind, marriage must be in some way bad, you see, because there's not an

acceptance of lesser goods, because there's no, because multiplicity in any sense is diminished.

That's the point here, because there's always a primacy given to unity.

But if Orthodox theology with the Kabedoshan stress is the equal ultimacy of one and many,

right, there's no, there's no primacy to unity over God's triadic, right, persons. There's no

primacy to the triad over against God's unity. It's an equal ultimacy. And so this this allows for there

to be unity within multiplicity, as Maximus says. And that's a much healthier view than the

tendency in Platonism and Greek dialectics to stress the one over the many, eternity over time,

right? Does that make sense? And so so and you see the same to think about how

protestants view grace and free will it's a diet's a struggle right grace has to overcome your

will oh it's faith or works right it's the same tendency to humans want to have false either

ors and the point here is that marriage is good it may not

be the best good but it's still a good and it's not inherently sinful because created goods are

not inherently sinful and you can will create a things without sinning because we're not neoplateness

no thank you thank you for explaining that.

I just, yeah, that was something that I just, it caused a little bit of confusion for me because I just, you know, it, just like I said, given the, how prominent, how prominent, you know, not only marriage, but the symbolic nature of marriage is in the

scriptures, you would think that, you know, at the very least, like you said, it might not be

equivalent to like living a perfectly celibate life where you can devote all of your extra

time and energy to God. But, you know, it's clearly part of the ultimate good that God created

because it existed in its purity, in the pure, perfect creation before the fall of man.

You're doing God's will. It's still the good of God. You're doing God's will.

It's something that God wanted and blessed.

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