The Historic Christian Teaching
Few of you realize that up until 1930, all Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Churchs teaching condemning contraception as sinful. At the 1930 Lambeth Conference, the Anglican church, gave in to growing social pressure, announced that contraception would be allowed in some circumstances.
Soon the Anglican church completely caved in, allowing contraception across the board. Since then, all other Protestant denominations have followed suit. Today, the Catholic Church alone proclaims the historic Christian position on contraception.
Contraception is not a modern invention. Birth control has been around for millennia. Scrolls found in Egypt, dating to 1900 B.C., describe ancient methods of birth control. These methods were later practiced in the Roman empire during the apostolic age by pagans. Wool that absorbed sperm, poisons that fumigated the uterus, potions, and other methods were used to prevent conception. In some centuries, even condoms were used made out of animal skin rather than latex.
The Bible mentions at least one form of contraception specifically and condemns it. Coitus interruptus, was used by Onan to avoid fulfilling his duty according to the ancient Jewish law of fathering children for ones dead brother. "Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brothers wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother. But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brothers wife he spilled the sperm on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother. And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him also" (Gen. 38:810).
The biblical penalty for not giving your brothers widow children was public humiliation, not death (Deut. 25:710). But Onan received death as punishment for his crime. This means his crime was more than simply not fulfilling the duty of a brother-in-law. He lost his life because he violated natural law, as Jewish and Christian commentators have always understood. For this reason, certain forms of contraception have historically been known as "Onanism," after the man who practiced it, just as homosexuality has historically been known as "Sodomy," after the men of Sodom, who practiced that vice (cf. Gen. 19).
Contraception was so far outside the biblical mindset and so obviously wrong that it did not need the frequent condemnations other sins did. Scripture condemns the practice when it mentions it. Once a moral principle has been established in the Bible, every possible application of it need not be mentioned. For example, the general principle that theft is wrong was clearly established in Scripture; but theres no need to provide an exhaustive list of every kind of theft. Similarly, since the principle that contraception is wrong has been established by being condemned when its mentioned in the Bible, every particular form of contraception does not need to be dealt with in Scripture in order for us to see that it is condemned.
Five key points:
1) Trinity: Father, Son, Holy spirit. How do we tell them apart? There all fully God, We tell them apart by their relationship. The Father, fathers the son from all eternity. The son pours himself back to the father and the bond between them is the Holy spirit the 3rd person. They called Man and women into exisitance they made us in their image and the first command was to be fruitful and multiply.
2) The Lordship of Jesus Christ: The Lord Jesus Christ is our Lord over our time, money, talents, and furtility. He is Lord over Everything....
3) Children in scripture: No where in scripture do you find a passage that says blessed is a man who only has two children so he can afford their college education. Or the Woman who has at least a four year gap so she is not stuck double diapering or a couple that waits five years before having kids.
4) Soveriegnty of God: Could God have a better plan for your life then you do?
5) NFP (Natural Family Planning) is a balance the church has given us by acknowledging grave reasons that a couple could prayerfully decern as far as they can tell would be better to not have children, but they don't go ahead and have the act of marriage to try to destroy the contents of what would make another child. Instead out of respect for the dignity of the other person and the dignity of the act of marriage they sustain periodicly. This period spent sustaining from the sexual aspect of marriage should be a period of prayer where you ask God to help with your grave situation.
NFP is not contraception because it is a time of prayer and devotion to the Lord during a time of Hardship. Instead of partaking in sexual intercourse with contraception during this Grave time.
Abortion is the Black side of the shade of grey that is contraception. Abortion is stopping life because it will interfer with your life. Contraception is stopping life from occuring because it will interfer with your life.... Inorder to truely stop abortion we as christians need to stop contraception... If people will turn away from trying to prevent birth because it will interfer with their personal life and followed Jesus Christ and trust in him and be obedient to him, the world will change and abortions will stop.
