Posted on 09/09/2019 10:37:16 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The effective separation of sex from procreation may be one of the most important defining marks of our age–and one of the most ominous. This awareness is spreading among American evangelicals, and it threatens to set loose a firestorm.
Most evangelical Protestants greeted the advent of modern birth control technologies with applause and relief. Lacking any substantial theology of marriage, sex, or the family, evangelicals welcomed the development of “The Pill” much as the world celebrated the discovery of penicillin — as one more milestone in the inevitable march of human progress, and the conquest of nature.
At the same time, evangelicals overcame their traditional reticence in matters of sexuality, and produced a growth industry in books, seminars, and even sermon series celebrating sexual ecstasy as one of God’s blessings to married Christians. Once reluctant to admit the very existence of sexuality, evangelicals emerged from the 1960s ready to dish out the latest sexual advice without blushing. As one of the best-selling evangelical sex manuals proclaims, marital sex is Intended for Pleasure. Many evangelicals seem to have forgotten that it was intended for something else as well. For many evangelical Christians, birth control has been an issue of concern only for Catholics. When Pope Paul VI released his famous encyclical outlawing artificial birth control, Humanae Vitae, most evangelicals responded with disregard — perhaps thankful that evangelicals had no pope who could hand down a similar edict. Evangelical couples became devoted users of birth control technologies ranging from the Pill to barrier methods and Intrauterine Devices(IUDs). That is all changing, and a new generation of evangelical couples is asking new questions.
A growing number of evangelicals are rethinking the issue of birth control-and facing the hard questions posed by reproductive technologies...First, we must start with a rejection of the contraceptive mentality...
(Excerpt) Read more at albertmohler.com ...
Indeed. And there is also *natural* family planning, etc...
Yep.
Thanks.
Ease of access to abortion came about in spite of birth control.
Mohler’s point is the increasing Evangelical awareness that the two issues are inextricably linked.
Mohler’s point is the increasing Evangelical awareness that the two issues are inextricably linked.
But I do give him CREDIT because he knows the Holy Bible.
If it induces an abortion, then the answer is: No.
You shall not kill (murder).
Abortion is murder. Next question...
And what about those married who cannot have children or who are beyond childbearing?
Although the Catholic Church allows for anullments if a marriage ends in divorce.
I think that by "ABC" you mean "artificial birth control".
I suggest that it also stands for "Abortion, Buggery, and Contraception" … and that your statement is true in that sense as well.
What about it? What point are you trying to make?
Man's fertility is not a poison. Woman's fertility is not a disease. Contraception and voluntary sterilization (partial mutilation of the sexual organs) treat a properly functioning human body as either poisonous or diseased.
There's no problem with sexual intercourse at a naturally infertile time or with a naturally infertile spouse. Most of the time, for most people, sex does not result in pregnancy most of the time, and that's just the way God made it. OK by Him, OK by me.
The trouble is with intentionally disabling or sabotaging fertility. That shows a will that is actively and destructively directed against something which is good in itself.
It's in some respects to be compared with eating. There's nothing against enjoying the pleasure of eating, whether or not it's the "very most nutritious possible." But bulimia --- repeat binge-eating-and-throwing-up --- is unnatural and unhealthy, and if intentional, wrong.
Mohler is a very good writer, and I bet a very good teacher.
Whether you’re a theist or atheist, why would God/nature give women double pleasure, both internal and external, if sexuality was simply an animal act for procreation? Sex is God’s or Nature’s gift to mankind. How else can the “rational animal” survive in 30-60 year marriages? Ain’t easy but sex for bonding and pleasure helps get couples through some difficult times. Of course, that’s my opinion. Luckily we Americans enjoy the exercise of our right to privacy and choice of religion as well as opinion. Sex is good imho and good for us. I agree with moralists who decry that sex has become less a spiritual and happy union between people and moreso a hedonist and animal pursuit.
The same gender sexual behavior cultural revolution of the last three decades never would have happened without the cultural acceptance of birth control and abortions that happened prior to that.
The UNconstitutional Court edict making contraception a “right” nationwide laid the foundation of the sexual revolution, which had a very large part in destroying this Nation.
The argument goes: once you remove the procreative dimension of sex and sexuality, it is one big free for all. Why shouldn’t the sexual relationship between two men be blessed? If the capacity for life giving isn’t inherent and integrally defining of a women, what distinction is left between men and women biologically? If openness to children isn’t integral to the sexual relationship between a man and woman, then why bother with the institution of marriage at all?
The to acknowledge the connection is a stain on the legacy of American Protestantism. Fact.
The argument goes: once you remove the procreative dimension of sex and sexuality, it is one big free for all. Why shouldn’t the sexual relationship between two men be blessed? If the capacity for life giving isn’t inherent and integrally defining of a women, what distinction is left between men and women biologically? If openness to children isn’t integral to the sexual relationship between a man and woman, then why bother with the institution of marriage at all?
The Refusal** to acknowledge the connection is a stain on the legacy of American Protestantism. Fact.
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