Is it a sin to use condoms or contraception with your wife?

Answer 1

In the Catholic belief, yes. To the Catholic Church, any contraception is a sin. The belief is that you are going against God's will by controlling when you have children. My wife and I think that if God wants us to have a baby right now, he can make the birth control pill not work anyway.

Answer 2

If u are a believer that everything happens with god's will, then my friend condom's are also made by god's will. If u look at the population explosion and would like to contribute in reducing than u should use condoms or if ur wife is willing then she can take precautions. U can also adopt a child, that will help let go of the ego also. I am not just talking my mind to you, but I have personally married a woman (widow), she had 2 sons 4 & 6 and it was fun seeing them grow up to 20 & 22 now. We have used condoms and it is perfect, does not even reduce pleasure.
Love

Answer 3

No! It's a sin to bring unwanted children into the world. Having children is a life time commitment and a wonderful thing however, you have to be ready on so many levels.
As far as this Catholic thing....c'mon get with the program. I know a woman who can not feed her 6 children and the husband won't let her use protection. He sits on his a**
all day while she works and raises the children. This woman looks 20 yrs older then she is because she has had 6 babies in 8 years. She keeps the food pantry in business because her kids would starve if she did not seek handouts.
Using protection when you are not ready is commendable!!! Religion should not come into it. I'd rather see prevention then abortion anyday!

Answer 4

if UR married, did a test and are both clean, why do you bother to use condoms??? lemme add it's not a sin to use a contraceptive like the pill, you can have all the fun you want without taking any risk... sex is one of the only pleasure of life, and you love each other, so where is the sin??

Answer 5

How the heck did you come up with this question. No I don't think its a sin, I mean seriously think of the amount of kids we'd have in the world (wanted and unwanted) and its effect on the limited resources of some countries. Frankly I think its the best thing that ever happened.

Answer 6

It depends. If you are Roman Catholic or of a religion that forbids it then yes it is a sin. If you are not of one of those religions then it is not. If you are looking to avoid pregnancy there are other ways then using contreception, they are not easy and they are not prefect but they work if you work at them. If you are looking to avoid the transmission of a sextually transmitted desise the only way to avoid that 100% of the time is to abstain from sex, though condoms are highly effective too.

Answer 7

What does the Bible say about birth control? Should Christians use birth control?”



Answer: Man was commissioned by God "to be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28) and marriage was instituted by God as a stable environment to have and rear children. In our society, children are often considered a nuisance and a burden. They stand in the way of people's career paths, financial goals, and they “crimp your style” socially. Often selfishness is at the root of contraceptive use.



Genesis 38 tells of Judah's sons, Er and Onan. Er married a woman named Tamar, but he was wicked and the Lord killed him, leaving Tamar with no husband or children. Tamar was given in marriage to Er's brother, Onan, in accordance with the law of levirate marriage in Deuteronomy 25:5-6. Onan did not want to split his inheritance with any child that he might sire on Tamar on his brother's behalf, so he practiced the oldest form of birth control. Genesis 38:10 says "What he did was wicked in the Lord's sight ; so He put him to death also." Onan's motivation was selfish: he used Tamar for his own pleasure, but refused to perform his “brotherly” duty of creating an heir for his deceased brother. It was not the act of contraception that caused the Lord to put Onan to death, but rather Onan’s selfish motives behind the action. Here are some verses that describe children from God's perspective:



A gift from God: Genesis 4:1, Genesis 33:5

A heritage from the Lord: Psalm 127:3-5

A blessing from God: Luke 1:42

A crown to the aged: Proverbs 17:6

God blesses barren women with children: Psalm 113:9, Genesis 21:1-3, 25:21-22, and 30:1-2, 1 Samuel 1:6-8, Luke 1:7, 24-25

God forms children in the womb: Psalm 139:13-16

God knows children before birth: Jeremiah 1:5, Galatians 1:15

It is important to view children as God sees them, not as the world tells us we should. Having said that, the Bible does not forbid contraception. Contraception, by it's definition, is the merely opposite of conception. It is not the act of contraception itself that determines whether it is wrong or right. As we learned from Onan, it is the motivation behind the contraception that determines if it is right or wrong. If a person is practicing contraception because they will have more for themselves, then it is wrong. If a person is practicing contraception in order to temporarily delay children until they are more mature and more financially and spiritually prepared, then it is acceptable to use contraception for a time. Again, it all comes back to your motivation.

Answer 8

No and NOPE nothing biblical about it but catholic doctrine says it is wrong. God on the other hand finds nothing wrong providing it is within the bounds of faithful marriage.
People though try to stress that catholics should recant their stand on condoms so to save lives from sexual diseases such as AIDS but if those catholics were having God approving sexual relations with their married partners they wouldn't be getting diseases anyway. Work that out!

Answer 9

Only if you're to believe a shrivelled old raisin also known as the Pope. Everything is a sin/source of guilt in the Catholic church.

Answer 10

I have to tell you, I'm a newer Catholic at age 48- converted last year. According to the Catholic laws, yes. But, according to same law, sex with my husband might be considered a sin- we're both "fixed" and there is no chance of conceiving a child!
This is a hard pill to swallow.!