My years have taught me that the litmus test of a REAL Christian is marriage and birth control. Real Christians stay married till death and have as many children as God sends. They don't use birth control. If I see a person who calls themselves Christian and is divorced and remarried, I know that they are hypocrites. If I see a couple with no children because they use birth control, I know they have not God's Grace.
How many Christians like that do any of you know? FEW!
So if you refrain from having sex during the time that a woman could get pregnant, is that birth control? Thus not being a Christian? Oey !!
Hmmm, I don’t believe Christ would agree with you. We are flawed, ALL of us, and I don’t think birth control or divorce are the litmus test for a Christian. The only REAL Christian was Christ himself, everyone else is just aspiring to his example.
I know several Christian couples that are very moral, will never divorce and stayed chaste till their wedding, yet practice birth control.
Ed
So contraceptives and divorce are on par? Tell me, is ALL divorce a sin? Where in the Bible does it say that birth control is a sin?
I’ve known people who had several layers of contraception stacked on top of each other (some artifical, some just natural, medical issues) and they STILL got pregnant. If God wants you to have a child, you WILL have a child.