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To: South Dakota

“I believe the Lord said relation are for the purpose of procreation”

Chapter and verse?

“Although children are a natural result of sexual intercourse between a husband and wife and are called “a gift of the LORD” (Psalm 127:3, New American Standard Bible), the Bible does not prohibit sexual relations within marriage purely for pleasure. Indeed, it encourages such union.

The idea that sex was dirty and evil was an idea that crept into Christianity from early Catholic teachers. Their compromise with the obvious reality that sexual activity was necessary to have children resulted in their teaching that sex should only be engaged in by married couples when they wanted to have children. Yet there is no such instruction in the Bible.

Genesis 2:24 says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh [have sex].” Proverbs 5:15-19 encourages couples to enjoy sexual pleasure together within marriage. Paul says that husbands and wives should render the sexual affection due each other—refraining only during times set aside for prayer and fasting (1 Corinthians 7:3-5).

No passage in the Bible forbids husbands and wives from having sex for pleasure when not trying to conceive children. There is nothing wrong with couples using contraceptive methods, provided they are not physically harmful, to postpone having children until the time of their choosing.”

https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools/booklets/marriage-and-family-the-missing-dimension/was-sex-intended-solely-for-procreation


36 posted on 06/16/2024 4:34:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

You left out that all major protestant denominations also condemned contraception until the Anglicans changed their teaching at the Lambeth conference in 1930.

This is not surprising as your reference material is from the UCG which in addition to not being Tinitarian (they believe that the Father and Jesus are seperate beings and that the Holy Spirit is not a Person at all) also believes that both Catholic and Protestant denominations fell away from the Faith a long time ago.

Your statement that the Catholic Church teaches sex is dirty and evil demonstrates your lack of an even basic understanding of the Catholic Faith or a parroting of propaganda (including those who have had experience with bad or fallen away catholics who have an axe to grind)


54 posted on 06/16/2024 8:27:08 AM PDT by rmichaelj (Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.)
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