Posted on 10/26/2014 8:08:35 AM PDT by GonzoII
I’m a protestant, and I oppose contraception. The world should have listened to Pope Paul VI.
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Another sin I need to ask forgiveness...*sigh* My family would be HUGE If...IF....
Interesting that the author uses Luther as authority.
Am I assume we are all to thus give equal credence to all his other writings?
Lewis is clearly writing about the eugenics movement, people like Margret Sanger, trying to control breeding of unwanted types.
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Regarding Onan, the stated reason for the slaying was that he reneged on his obligation under the covenant he entered into.
Onan displeased God not because he spilled his seed but because he opted to follow the law and then pulled out, so to speak. He had the option to decline, but going into his sister in law and intentionally avoiding completion of the task was not the prescribed way of exercising that option.
I once had a long car ride with a Unitarian-Universalist gal (to be fair, she had been brought up Catholic) wherein for hours we talked back and forth about the morality of contraception.
We both persisted in this converstion through sunshine and snowstorm, hour after hour, because we both believed that IF it is true that contraception is morally objectionable, it MUST be something rooted in Natural Law, i.e. what is right and fitting for us as human beings, discernible by reason guided by good will.
So we we weren't just talking about Onan. We were talking about the whole consequences of a wholly Onanistic mentality and culture.
We came to the the conclusion that contraception really launched our society off in the wrong direction, It is a choice against the normal and in favor of the subnormal. It is a choice against whole sex in favor of fragmented, functionally impaired sex. It is a thread which, if you cut it and then start pulling it out, necessarily unravels the whole sweater.
I wish I could remember that whole conversation. (It was years and years ago.) I really think everybody could figure this out, if they looked deeply enough into how God's design works --- how all the threads are connected.
That's how I've always seen it. Onan basically enjoyed a roll in the hay without doing his duty. Also, people who see this story as being about contraception presumably believe it is a brother's duty to impregnate his brother's wife?
Genesis 38 states that Onan was punished by death for what? For "the thing which he did," which had just been described: a contracepted act of sex.
We do that it is forbidden to intentionally impair the act of sexual union by frustrating its natural end.
Adam and Eve were “kicked” out of the garden and commanded by G_D to go forth and multiply. If Adam and Eve had practised contraception, we wouldn’t be here today.
Never mind, I need a shot of caffeine. :)
Some cultures killed their unwanted or imperfect newborns. Some cultures merely murdered their unwanted female fetuses by strangulation or throwing them down a dry well. Some put their deformed babies on a small raft and set them out to sea.
Many cultures didn't value the life of a newborn very much, did they?
I know of a Protestant minister who had his vasectomy reversed when he realized how much God hated contraception. His wife promptly gave birth to two more children within just a few years. He in turn is encouraging others to do the same.
The real problem with what Onan did was to attempt to break the lineage to Christ. Read the continuation of Genesis and the first chapter of Matthew to find out how the lineage was re-established.
Onan was not killed for being unwilling to impregnate her. He was unwilling to fulfill his role as his brother’s keeper and provide for his brother’s wife and her children.
Sin is conceived in the heart long before it is born in the actions.
If contraception is a sin, then it’s not the CAUSE of the moral decay in our society, but the SYMPTOM.
No sin ever catches on unless people are willing to engage in it and that is because they have already compromised in their heart.
To say that contraception causes moral failure denies the empowering work of the Holy Spirit to give people the ability to resist sin. Then we’re all just victims of our circumstances and can’t help ourselves.
Which is not true.
That’s “one” of the real problems. It’s not the only one.
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