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To: Mrs. Don-o
Are you saying that Onan performed an act of normal, non-contracepted intercourse?

No, I'm saying your interpretation of God's judgement is not in the passage.

It is a Roman teaching you are bringing into the passage.

138 posted on 05/16/2018 6:39:09 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Q is Admiral Michael S. Rogers)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
It is extremely short-sighted to think that an ethic against contracepted ses is a Roman Catholic "distinctive".

It happens to be the shared Christian teaching of all denominations for nearly 19 centuries, specifically until 1930. Why 1930? Because it was then, at their Lambeth conference, that the Anglican Church became the only Christian denomination to approve or marital contraception.

How do you account for the fact that for over a millennium, all Christians were wrong? And I mean all Christians---Protestant, Orthodox, Reformed, Catholic, Evangelical, all of them--- who understood Scriptural principles as forbidding any non-natural alteration of sex?

Did the Holy Spirit go asleep for 19 long centuries, only to awaken to tell the Anglicans (of all people!) to ignore the old Christian ethic and get with the contraceptive revolution?

Do you know why the Anglican Church broke ranks and abandoned the historic Christian teaching on marriage (Protestant as well as Catholic) and accepted the contraceptive revolution pioneered by such figures as Margaret Sanger, Robert Malthus, Thomas Huxley, Marie Stopes and Havelock Ellis?

You don't know the history, if you're thinking that this is some peculiarity of Catholicism. It was a Scripturally-rooted consensus that continued for centuries after the Reformation.

The Gay and Trans movements are just the latest manifestations of this self-same revolution against natural sex.

So few people know this history.

139 posted on 05/16/2018 7:13:58 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Everything should be made a simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein)
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