Does God and the Bible allow birth control?

Question

Seems to me the answer is clearly, yes of course. We’re not talking contraceptives here, or sex before marriage and all that sort of jazz nonsense. We’re talking killing and murder to control birth and world population.

Religion is responsible for the majority of wars, conflict and murder of innocent life since humanity began. People kill and murder in the name of God.

Is that not a wonderful religious way to control population? Would it not be more peaceful and loving to allow contraceptives, without the need to kill and murder?

Your thoughts please.

Answer 1

Brenda's world is a world we all should want to live in.

Answer 2

I used to be bitter, fearful, I mocked religous people. The apostle Paul used to kill them. But one day Jesus Christ stepped into my life and in the twinkle of an eye healed me from a lifetime of emotional abuse, He made me a new person right there in my living room. I can barely remember the first time I had sex, but I can remember exactly what that moment was like, the incredible freedom. I used to walk to work with a mean look on my face so no one would talk to me, that morning I walked to work with a big stupid grin singing a Sinead Oconner song "feel so different", I didn't know any church songs then, but that one sure fit.
Jesus Christ is real, I'll lay my life down before I ever back down from that. Think about who your attacking Brenda, I know some pretty hypocritical Christians, and some who aren't Christian at all but pretend to be, but I know an awful lot of good decent people trying their best to make the world a better place. I don't think you know who your hurting.

Answer 3

Brenda,

I believe it is wrong for us to play God by interfering in the creative process by interfering with conception. In the Old Testament a man named Onan was struck dead by God when he spilt his seed onto the ground to prevent from impregnating his wife.

Now, a woman is fertile only 3-4 days out of a month. So, a husband and wife can have sex without the use of contraceptives and worrying about getting an unwanted pregnancy.

Today's modern technology also gives us fertility tests that track when the hormone in the woman is released to initiate ovulation. These tests can be bought at any pharmacy and is a much better method of controlling the way in having children. In this way people who want to follow God's natural way of family planning instead of playing God and offending God can do both.

By the way, the so called "contraceptives" do not prevent conception from taking place but expells a fertilized egg from the woman's body, which is meant to nourish the baby. In effect, this is murder in a violent molecular way. It is unnatural. As an abortifacient, it is an artificially induce termination of pregnancy.

Finally, if people knew about Margaret Sanger who started the contaceptive movement, they would be less apt to agree with her ideology. She believed in superior and inferior races and wanted to put contraceptives in the water supply to inhibit the breeding of the "inferior" races.

I hope this gives you a perspective that nourishes a better relationship than the alternative.

Answer 4

I think that the bible allows for birth control.

The only instance of birth control I remember in the bible is the case of Onan in Gen. 38:7-10.

When Onan brother died, the custom at the time required that Onan married his brother wife as she had no children. Oran, knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name.and therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing.

What made what Oran did detestable?

My opinion is it was NOT that Oran was performing birth control but that his was avoiding his duty to his brother by trying to avoid impregnating his brother's widow.

The reason I feel that it was not birth control is that if birth control was something to be avoided in general that there would be more instances mentioned in the bible.

Answer 5

Well, there is that one story about Onan they think makes masturbation a sin. Genesis 38:8-10
When actually, it was really just a culturally bad thing, back then, like being a deadbeat dad is today. I forget exactly what the deal was... The guy was supposed to impregnate his brother's widow so then he'd have to take care of her and her kids, or something....

Answer 6

If a normally fertile woman has sex from the time she's 18 until menopause she can expect to carry at least 10 children in her lifetime. I'm sure God has better plans for lots of women nowadays than just being mothers. Preventing one of like 400,000 eggs in your body from being fertilized is no more a sin than going to college. People who have children and don't want them usually treat them bad and raise bad people who kill other people or steal or just cause mayhem. So I don't see how it's a bad thing to prevent that from happening.

Answer 7

I think so, because the Bible doesn't say only "croissez et multipliez". It adds "and fill up the earth". The earth was void in the beginning. Now it is overflowed with human beings. The "fillup the earth" has been faithfully accomplished. Nobody has asked us to do more than that.

Answer 8

I do not think God( the Creator) would allow birth control beacuse he did not with man. Contraception is the conception of man, not God. Contraception has been created by man to stop or delay what God intended for man to do which is to bear offspring. Hey, but you cannot deny that there is a need for it.

Answer 9

Can't say I'm much of a christian, but it always looked like god wanted you to practice good judgement, and having a kid when your not ready is clearly not good judgement...so bag it up.

Answer 10

no. because at least the people that i have killed had the chance to kill me first. never took out no child, born or unborn...that in itself sounds like the work of a devil..

oh, wait...there were the three people that had set up a mortar tube and started to load it. my spotter and i popped all three of them and they never had a chance to take us out.

oh well. that's just one more thing for me to repent.

-eagle