Why do some Christians believe that contraceptive methods are a sin?

Question

The pill, condoms etc... are like one step before abortion, is that the logic?
Absolutely unbelievable.....

Answer 1

See to especially Catholics birth control is a form of preventing God's Will so they believe that is a sin. It also would mean that someone would prevent the natural course of things.

Answer 2

Religions often use increasing their numbers as a way to expand relative to other religions and to allow birth control among their members would slow down this process. In 1970, the state of New York legalized abortion and the Catholic church did not put up a huge stink about it until they figured out that Catholics were having abortions at the same rate as everybody else. They figured their people would obey the edict against abortion and other groups would decline in number, making their relative numbers rise. They don't look at the world overpopulation problem, they just selfishly breed to advance their own agendas. It is the same with birth control. Some people are just hopeless (see answer above).

Answer 3

They are looking at the fact that you are still having sex. Especially if you are not married. Also, some of them belief we are born to give life and maybe contraceptions are preventing you from doing that. Me I look at it as a way of not bringing a child into the world if you are not ready for that step. Also condoms are a way of protecting yourself from diseases. My thought is, everyone should do whats fitting to them. This is America, we have the right and freedom to choose what makes us happy. Albeit sexually. Plus, aren't there other worst things in the world?

Answer 4

Most christians believe that contraceptive methods are a sin because god gave us the gift to bring forth and reproduce and that he wants us to do. Sex was given to us to reproduce and some might believe that by preventing reproduction they are only intrested in the pleasure that sex gives. Yes they are one step above abortion but being with child is a gift from God and by terminating it or preventing it it comes like your refusing God's gift.

Answer 5

Gen 1:28, 9:1,7; 35:11 - from the beginning, the Lord commands us to be fruitful ("fertile") and multiply. A husband and wife fulfill God's plan for marriage in the bringing forth of new life, for God is life itself.

Gen. 28:3 - Isaac's prayer over Jacob shows that fertility and procreation are considered blessings from God.

Gen. 38:8-10 - Onan is killed by God for practicing contraception (in this case, withdrawal) and spilling his semen on the ground.

Gen. 38:11-26 - Judah, like Onan, also rejected God's command to keep up the family lineage, but he was not killed.

Deut. 25:7-10 - the penalty for refusing to keep up a family lineage is not death, like Onan received. Onan was killed for wasting seed.

Gen. 38:9 - also, the author's usage of the graphic word "seed," which is very uncharacteristic for Hebrew writing, further highlights the reason for Onan's death.

Exodus 23:25-26; Deut. 7:13-14 - God promises blessings which include no miscarriages or barrenness. Children are blessings from God, and married couples must always be open to God's plan for new life with every act of marital intimacy.

Lev.18:22-23;20:13 - wasting seed with non-generative sexual acts warrants death. Many Protestant churches, which have all strayed from the Catholic Church, reject this fundamental truth (few Protestants and Catholics realize that contraception was condemned by all of Christianity - and other religions - until the Anglican church permitted it in certain cases at the Lambeth conference in 1930. This opened the floodgates of error).

Lev. 21:17,20 - crushed testicles are called a defect and a blemish before God. God reveals that deliberate sterilization and any other methods which prevent conception are intrinsically evil.

Deut. 23:1 - whoever has crushed testicles or is castrated cannot enter the assembly. Contraception is objectively sinful and contrary, not only to God's Revelation, but the moral and natural law.

Deut. 25:11-12 - there is punishment for potential damage to the testicles, for such damage puts new life at risk. It, of course, follows that vasectomies, which are done with willful consent, are gravely contrary to the natural law.

1 Chron. 25:5 - God exalts His people by blessing them with many children. When married couples contracept, they are declaring "not your will God, but my will be done."

Psalm 127:3-5 - children are a gift of favor from God and blessed is a full quiver. Married couples must always be open to God's precious gift of life. Contraception, which shows a disregard for human life, has lead to the great evils of abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide.

Answer 6

Because it is interfering with the will of God that we should be open to having a child. That is what makes it a sin.

Abortion is murder. Yet another sin that a lot of people over look.

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For a previous responder - sex is not only for procreation, it is a way for a husband and wife to share the most precious thing that they have with each other.

Answer 7

I doubt many believe it, but they feel they must allow the church leaders to define these things for them and in this case the celebate old dogs continue to spout stuff about the power over procreation being only in the hands of God. Most of these same hypocrites have no problem getting the latest medical treatment for their heart disease, diabetes, kidney failures, and cancers. They don't think twice about getting glasses do they. That's when they say that God gave us the brain to use to solve our problems. Over population is a problem, more children than you can feed or clothe is a problem, being subjected to pregnancy over and over again until your health fails is a problem, refraining from loving sex with your spouse is a problem. Yes, you can chose not to be sexually available to your loved one, but you can chose to eat right, not smoke, not to drink to excess, get lots of exercise. They accept medical solutions to some problems, but not this one. They are hypocrites.

Answer 8

They believe the only purpose for sex is to create life. Thus, if you are having sex without creating life then you are sinning.

Personally, I think there are worse evils in this world than people who enjoy having sex and the church should worry more about murder, genocide, etc.

Answer 9

Most Christians are fanatics. They hate and fear what they don't understand and condemn everything as a sin. Use a condom every time!

Answer 10

They believe it so they will create more and more Christians and take over the world. (Just ask a Catholic or Mormon)