“The use of condoms denies and blocks the life-giving powers that God has designed for us, that we may share in His creation.”
So does abstinence.
But what a condom does is give a couple the ability to express their love without choosing to have a child. Dogs breed. Humans can and should love each other. And the use of our minds gives us a choice a dog doesn’t have.
If anyone doesn’t want to use a condom, that is fine. They are free to decide for themselves. But I see no scriptural warrant for claiming a person using a condom is evil.
“...so does abstinence”.
Abstinence is a decision. Sexual intercourse is an act.
As I just posted above, since, practically speaking, all Christians were united in condemning contraception before 1930, where in the Bible does it say that one can have relations with one's husband/wife and NOT be open to offspring? It seems to me that the burden of proof lies in showing that it is biblical to contracept.
Blessed Sunday!
“...what a condom does is give the couple the ability to express their love without choosing to have a child...”
Altering the marital embrace to make it barren reduces it to essentially the same act as a homosexual act i.e., an act that by its very nature is their way of expressing “love” without having a child. The process of neutering the marital embrace demeans it. Purposely abstaining during the fertile time each month for serious reasons is perfectly acceptable and does not mock the potential procreative act itself.