Birth control reconsidered: Protestant film questions contraception, rediscovers Reformation beliefs

TheChristians.com ^ | Jun 11, 2013 | Celeste McGovern

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Our follow up documentary to How Did We Get Here? was created to train Christian audiences to apply sound biblical doctrine to the area of family planning with a true gospel-centered attitude towards children and a desire for multi-generational legacy. The title question of the film seeks its answer by studying God’s sovereignty, reviewing our response to God’s revealed will, and defines the God-given avenues for obedience, sanctification, and proper stewardship.

Modern Christians desire relevancy, yet an overwhelming majority have never heard a practical message on the topic of birth control.  In our first film, we showed how the culture slowly transformed the church into accepting birth control as biblical theology.  Now, that we have gone the way of the world, leaning on our own understanding instead of fearing God, we must rediscover what the Scriptures say and what our forefathers knew before us.

In this film, we will cover six core arguments, presenting the Biblical evidence FOR Christian living with as many children as God might provide; and AGAINST birth control, contraception, and all forms of “family planning”, while answering the most common objections along the way.  

Starting with The Sufficiency of Scripture, we will establish how the Bible speaks to this issue.  We’ll look to The Gospel Picture in Marriage to determine the relationship of procreation & unity – of life and love.  The Dominion Mandate will be defined and examined to see whether or not it still applies today.  We will consider the purpose of The Natural Process in God’s unique design of the female body.  We will see Children as God’s Blessing from His hand and the proper place for wisdom in family.  Finally, we’ll end with a review of how Parenthood affects our understanding of God, our sanctification, and our Evangelism.

This film is for Christians as an aid to help us recover the gospel in family life.  The best witness before a lost and dying world, is an obedient life, surrendered to Christ, the Creator and Sustainer of all life.  May we preach the gospel with our lips and with our lives.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

 

The fruit of our contraceptive culture is rancid and many voices are calling for a restoration of the church. In order to effectively communicate the truth about birth control and it’s impact on the church, marriage, and family, we begin by asking two questions: How Did We Get Here, and Is It Up to Us?

Thus The BIRTH CONTROL MOVIE Project, was born out of a desire to communicate the truth about birth control from the Word of God.

Our first award-winning documentary, BIRTH CONTROL: How Did We Get Here?, was created to educate audiences on the history of birth control and its impact on the church, marriage, and family.

Our feature documentary BIRTH CONTROL: Is It Up to Us?, was created to train Christian audiences to apply sound biblical doctrine to the area of family planning with a true gospel-centered attitude towards children and a desire for multi-generational legacy.

The first of two films focuses on the history of birth control and it’s impact on the church, marriage, and family.

This engagingly fast-paced documentary takes a historic look at the modern church’s public embrace and overwhelming acceptance of child prevention as biblical theology. The reinterpretation of Scripture and rejection of our church history in the mid twentieth century allowed for responsible planned procreation.

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No longer was the raising of godly seed seen as the primary purpose of marriage; but now marriage was redefined as a union “intended for companionship and mutual spiritual aid”. This new view, brought on by the European spread of eugenics, brought rise to a departure from centuries of universal agreement among all branches of the church. In essence, the church was complicit in championing “privacy in marriage” to allow the liberty of responsible planned parenthood, heedless of scriptural authority or precedence.

 “In answering How Did We Get Here? we will be one step closer to a return to the Church’s historic and Biblical view of marriage and a resurgence of desire for godly offspring.”

Director Kevin Peeples’ desire to create a film on birth control was founded on his own personal journey to answer the question posed by the upcoming film BIRTH CONTROL: Is It Up to Us?, but once the project was started he and his fellow producers, Scott Dix and Nathan Nicholson, discovered that before answering that question, a look into the history of the church was in order. How Did We Get Here?  took the team around the United States capturing captivating interviews with authors, historians, theologians, radio talk show hosts and others, such as Dr. George Grant, Dr. Allan Carlson, Geoffrey Botkin, Dr. R.C. Sproul Jr., Lila Rose, Kevin Swanson, and Julie Roys.

Starting with creation and ending in the late 20th Century, this film will look at how the Church’s voice changed radically in the 20th century due to overwhelming social pressure. Before we can discuss the desperate need to return to Scripture and to the Church’s historic position on marriage and family, a need arose to present where we came from and how we got here. How Did We Get Here? sets the stage for Is It Up to Us?.

 

 

 

The title question of the film seeks its answer by studying God’s sovereignty, reviewing our response to God’s revealed will, and defines the God-given avenues for obedience, sanctification, and proper stewardship.

Children bring maturity, obedience, sanctification, and strength in facing difficult circumstances. And when you study what the scriptures say, we realize that birth control can have no part of our lives. Controlling and preventing children is contrary to creating lasting legacy through fruitful and obedient marriages.

This film is currently in production and will be available soon! 

 

 

 

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee.  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.”   Isaiah 41:10; 54: 17

One man fought the battle for national purity… and won. By the 1870’s, a young Anthony Comstock arrived in New York City in the middle of the Second Industrial Revolution.  America was changing.  As the world’s first billion dollar company was being formed, rural families flocked to the city and immigration exploded.  New technologies coupled with metropolitan anonymity enabled the rapid spread of obscenity, contraception, and abortion.  Insufficient laws had not caught up to new challenges and Comstock saw how these vices would have a detrimental effect on the family and American culture if not properly checked.  By age 28, he made an unconditional surrender of his life to the will of God; he gave up his personal ambitions and took God’s will for himself, no matter what might be the cost.  He entered the fight.

He began by making citizen’s arrests and incredibly within a year he found himself in Washington, DC meeting with congressmen and drafting the Postal Act of 1873.  The Comstock Act, as it soon came to be known, passed in dramatic fashion during the final hours of the 42^nd Congress and Comstock himself was shortly thereafter surprised with an appointment to be its chief enforcer with the newly created office of U.S. Post Office Special Agent.  Thus, Comstock embarked on the life work in which he would serve for the next 42 years.  This book tells the story of how Anthony Comstock almost single-handedly fought the battle for national purity and won. 

[D-fendr]

Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae... prescient.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

At least some of our separated brethren are waking up, as evidenced by these movies. Now if we could just get the Catholic bishops to wake up.

[GOP Poet]

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[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Truth will set you free.

[Vince Ferrer]

It is hard to see, but I believe this pendulum will swing back.

[Cronos]

ping

[vladimir998]

Wow.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

The pendulum will certainly swing back. Truth always prevails. Sometimes it takes fire from the sky to make it happen though as in the Old Testament.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

R.C. Sproul was involved in this project. I know he is highly regarded among some FReepers. Hopefully this will open some minds and hearts to these Truths.

[NKP_Vet]

This country rapid slide into Sodom and Gomorrah, from abortion, to homosexual “marriage”, started with birth control “free sex with no conditions” outside marriage. It has destroyed the sacrament of marriage.

[Gamecock]

Thanks for the ping.

In a way the movie seems a bit of a mea culpa for mainstream Protestantism missing the boat. “Opposition to birth control was seen as a Catholic thing,” one commentator says. “Protestants were for liberty.”

Having worshiped in conservative Reformed churches for the last 20 or so years I will say that each of them puts great value on large families and are against oral contraception. So my data point is 3 PCA churches, a United Reformed Church of North America congregation and an ARP church.

[Ransomed]

It has helped destroyed the state’s reasons for and definition of civil marriage. Can’t destroy a Sacrament.

The modern state defining/redefining marriage + acceptance of bc has done a lot to harm our culture for sure.

FReegards

[RFEngineer]

“A Protestant film questions contraception, and rediscovers Reformation beliefs”

“Protestant” does not represent a monolithic block that can be extrapolated into anything meaningful.

I wouldn’t read too much into this - good or bad.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Martin Luther called contraception “marital sodomy.” Calvin called it an “unforgivable sin.” How Protestantism got to where it is today on this subject is worthy of extensive study and reflection.

That some Protestants are seeing the light on this issue and actually investing serious time and money in trying to teach others these Truths is a true sign of hope.

[Gamecock]

R.C. Sproul was involved in this project. I know he is highly regarded among some FReepers. Hopefully this will open some minds and hearts to these Truths.

If Reformed folk had a pope, RC might just be the one sitting in a big chair in Geneva.

[RFEngineer]

News flash. Lots of Catholics use birth control.

It’s not really an exclusive “Protestant” or “Catholic” issue.

It’s more a third world, vs. first world issue.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

News flash. Catholics who practice birth control do so knowing its against their Church’s teaching. Protestants who practice birth control do it with their church’s blessing. There’s a real difference there.

It’s not a first world vs third world thing. It’s a sinful vs non sinful thing.