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Is it ok for Christians to use birth control?
Duane:
I see nowhere in the Bible that birth control is condemned. It is the Catholic Church that teaches that birth control is a sin.
However, what is there for THEM to lose?
A. The CHURCH nor the POPE have to support the additional children--
B. The Poorest (overpopulated) countries in the WORLD are predominately Catholic.
C. More Catholic babies--more Catholics in the church--and FUTURE Catholics!
I once asked a priest:
"Do you know what they call people who use the "rhythm method?
He said: "NO! What?"
I said: PARENTS!
se7en:
Haha Duane,
You reminded me of the movie "The Meaning of Life" by Monty Python.
Where that woman is doing the dishes standing up and she pops out a baby. She tells one of her 20 kids to pick it up, wash it off and put it to work.
was that "Meaning of Lif" or "Life of Brian"? It's been so long.
Hahahahaha.
gregorydc:
That was the meaning of life, seven. The life of brian was the poke at "christian religion" both of which are hilarious.
cjwood:
and some people have become parents because they used the "rhythm method" but they just had no rhythm. ;D ;D
claudia
loretta:
I must clarify here that the Fertility Awareness Method is different from the rhythm method (or Natural Family Planning) which is why there can be no failures if followed properly. While traditional barrier contraceptives have their own disadvantages, oral or chemical contraceptive are far more dangerous to women's health.
True, that the Bible does not condemn birth control. But the Bible does offer precepts and principles to help us choose life rather than death.
Deut 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Finally, it is far too simplistic to associate poverty with overpopulation and it leads to various excesses like abortion, female infanticide, coerced methods of family planning as in India and China, skewed male:female ratios. Declining birth rates in developed countries is creating big changes throughout the developed world. The replacement rate—the reproduction rate that keeps a population stable—for developed countries is 2.1, yet nearly half the world’s population has birth rates lower than that. This is definitely not good news for the future or for the economy.
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