Some were and some weren't.
I worship a God who isn’t stopped by things like condoms.
Whether he's "stopped" by them or not isn't relevant to the issue of whether they're morally permissible. He's omnipotent; he's not ultimately stopped by anything unless he chooses to be.
By your argument I shouldn’t take fertility medicine to try to conceive, either. Yet I have a feeling that a lot of people who have your point of view would look at me now, with only one child in 5 years of marriage, and assume that I’m contracepting.