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Recent content by CCLMatthew

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    question about Mary - the mom :)

    AAAAAAAHHHHH! Sorry, now that I got that out of my system I feel much better. One thing I have always found is that protestant Churches who believe anything always have an ex-catholic (poor uniformed authority), believe we are all poor in bondage fools and think we are unbiblical and do all...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    Well, this is divinig off into a little bit deeper theological waters than I intended to tonight. So, I am going to be brief and possibly incomplete but I will come back to deal out more of the answer. It has to do with the fact that God wants us to be fruitful and multiply, women will be...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    As to the above post you were responding to and also this may help with what you are asking: God created our body with a certain order and function, correct? Using something (medicine, etc) to return our body to the proper designed order is good i.e. getting rid of cancer or removing...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    Can you give an example of what kind of interference you are talking about? In regards to the difference between NFP and say the barrier method is that with NFP you are not changing the way God created the act to function, just choosing if you are going to participate in the act at the current...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    If you were to get off the pill and chart your cycles (at least thermal) you would have a good idea as to when your friend is going to appear. PM if you want more information or links. Also, have you consider the possible underlying health risks from the pill (sterility temporary and...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    Gn. 38:9-10 Onan is struck dead by God for spilling his seed on the ground (not completing the sexual act to avoid childbirth) Some will say that this is in retribution for violating the Levirate law but if you look at Dt. 23:1 you can see God’s word clearly has a different punishment in...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    Actually, it was universal Christian Teaching until the Lambeth Conference 1929/1930 by the Anglicans followed by the espicopalians and so on. There are some great articles on the net if search for them under lambeth but I can't post the links yet. (not enough posts). Oh, most of the large...
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    Difficulties for Young Marriages

    Hey all. I am going to reply out in detail but I HAD to get some sleep last night and now it is time to go to work. I want to make sure I really demonstrate the difference. Jenna and Flipper (in case I die today at work) the answers to your questions are in Covenanted Happiness by Burke and I...
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    Difficulties for Young Marriages

    First part...yeah..sorry...i am watching the kids and trying to reply ( actually provide a synopsis of a 250 page anthropological work) and working on a paper review...you get the idea. I never said that you have to have a large brood of children. My main concern is that the first...
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    Difficulties for Young Marriages

    Cormac Burke has a great book called Covenanted Happines that makes the case that selfishness is the biggest thing causing problems in marriages. Their is no sacrifice..no striving to live for something/someone else. Nothing to admire. This is found in the big houses/career for the sake of a...
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    Well, it isn't a form of contraception. You can read and learn more from the Couple to Couple Leage www dot ccli dot org. The NFP classes are geared around building stronger families through NFP. One of the classes spends about an hour on "natural mothering" and discusses return of fertility...
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    Midwest Catholic Family Conference

    I was wondering if anyone is coming to join us in Wichita for the Midwest Conference. My wife and I will sporadically be at the Couple to Couple League table when we are not at talks or Mass. Matt
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    Biblical Family Planning and Ministry

    I am curious if there are any other users of Natural Family Planning (NFP). From the 38th Chapter of Genesis through many books of the bible ending in the book of revelation there are biblical condemnations of contraceptive behavior. This was a universal Christian Teaching until 1930. I am a...