Originally posted by SUNSTONE
God told him to get that girl pregnant, God killed him because he disobeyed.
Sex is a gift from God, it is for procreation, but it is also for pleasure (inside of marriage). If it was only for procreation, then you could never have sex after she was pregnant, untill she became unpregnant.
But if you disagree, good luck in not having sex during pregnancy, since that would be a sin... in your eyes.
First, sex during pregnancy is sinful. Because sex is for procreation (as you have stated that), and a child (a human being) is inside the mother.
As for not being able to control one's self during marriage, here is some scripture:
Galatians 5
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness,
self-control; against such things there is no law.
24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
I put 'self-control' in bold to point out that self-control is one of the fruit's of the spirit.
As for an official Baptist decree or opinion on BC, the SBC's "Faith and Message" on
Family is
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God's unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.
The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God's image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God's pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.
Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25; 3:1-20; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 24:15; 1 Samuel 1:26-28; Psalms 51:5; 78:1-8; 127; 128; 139:13-16; Proverbs 1:8; 5:15-20; 6:20-22; 12:4; 13:24; 14:1; 17:6; 18:22; 22:6,15; 23:13-14; 24:3; 29:15,17; 31:10-31; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; 9:9; Malachi 2:14-16; Matthew 5:31-32; 18:2-5; 19:3-9; Mark 10:6-12; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-4; Colossians 3:18-21; 1 Timothy 5:8,14; 2 Timothy 1:3-5; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7.
It mentions nothing that would show them to be either pro- or anti- birth control. It would be better if they had a statement regarding birth control, a Biblical one, stating that birth control is an affront to God and His purpose for marriage and sex. But since no such statement is to be found, atleast there is no pro-birth control statement; so the SBC, I assume, allows each individual Baptist church (and each Christian) to decide, based on the Bible, if the use of birth control is sinful (I am not insinuating that the use of birth control is only sinful for certain people, as I believe it is sinful regardless of the person's belief, but that atleast each Christian is able to read God's Word and realize the sinfulness of birth control, instead of a convention/group/church/person telling them that birth control is OK).
), while I believe that birth control of any form is wrong and that sex is for procreation only.
