Is Birth Control Sinful In Marriage?

[iLOVE]

Your view on this topic.

 

[follower]

....... well, people who keep having babies, trusting Yhvh in Yeshua for each and every life, have faith in their life for the gifts Yhvh gives to them and rely on Him for His Guardianship , Provision and Support.

if people prevent babies from being born, if it is truly by faith trusting and relying on Yhvh, and no life that has started is eliminated directly or indirectly, then perhaps it is not sinful..... Yhvh knows.

 

[evenifigoalone]

I don't think so. It's meant to prevent conception from happening. I've heard from people who don't want to have kids because they have some genetic diseases or disorders and don't want to pass these on, or who wish to adopt instead because there are so many children in the world in need of a family. I think these are legitimate concerns, and if that's the path they want to go...well, yeah.

I'm not against having biological children, don't get the wrong idea. I'm also very much pro-life.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

....... well, people who keep having babies, trusting Yhvh in Yeshua for each and every life, have faith in their life for the gifts Yhvh gives to them and rely on Him for His Guardianship , Provision and Support.

This I believe. But I then realized I, myself, may not have the will or the energy to keep having and raising babies. I'm confident it is a choice that God let's the individual have.

...if no life that has started is eliminated directly or indirectly, then perhaps it is not sinful..... Yhvh knows.

This is the conviction me and my wife came to, and we ended up with four kids. Found out the rhythm method is a better way to get pregnant than it is a way to not get pregnant. Started getting tired in my old age raising kids....got a vasectomy. My advice to men...DO NOT GET A VASECTOMY. Take responsibility for your bodily urges, or they will take control of you. Free sex is a potential formula for disaster. God did not intend that for us. He intended for us to take control of our bodies, not relinquish control of them.

 

[follower]

"no surgery" , like "no drugs", and "no man(flesh)originated technique" and "no self-will"
is,
simply,
best. faithful and true. not accepted by the world. not even understood. often denied, sometimes vehemently denied.

 

[Kathi]

It all depends on what kind of birth control.Some devices can be considered abortion.

 

[jasonc]

the topic is ALL birth control a sin.

 

[evenifigoalone]

How I see it: if it involves killing a fetus, it's murder and therefore a sin. (Ie, abortion.) If not, it's acceptable. Pretty simple.

 

[follower]

compare Matthew Henry's commentary on something ---
"Uzzah smitten for touching the ark, Obed-edom blessed.
Uzzah was struck dead for touching the ark. God saw presumption and irreverence in Uzzah's heart. Familiarity, even with that which is most awful, is apt to breed contempt. If it were so great a crime for one to lay hold on the ark of the covenant who had no right to do so, what is it for those to lay claim to the privileges of the covenant that come not up to the terms of it? Obed-edom opened his doors without fear, knowing the ark was a savour of death unto death to those only who

treated it wrong. The same hand that punished Uzzah's proud presumption, rewarded Obed-edom's humble boldness. Let none think the worse of the gospel for the judgments on those that reject it, but consider the blessings it brings to all who receive it. Let masters of families be encouraged to keep up religion in their families. It is good to live in a family that entertains the ark, for all about it will fare the better. (2Sa 6:12-19)"

one was struck dead. one was blessed.
presumption : dead
humble boldness(obedience) : blessing

Yhvh shut up the womb often enough for His people to know He is well able to.
Yhvh opened the womb with a gift of life from Him when He wanted to, for His people to rely on Him.

so, rely on Him. obey Him. do what He says to do. be blessed.

 

[follower]

duh!!! LIGHT ON! (what is written? :> be fruitful and multiply ...... )
so,
therefore, simply, do what the Creator Who Oversees all says to do. He is Responsible for you if you do what He says. You are responsible for you if you disobey. And there's more than enough history to see that He knows how to take care of His people.(as well as all His Word, of course; and He gave Yeshua to die - what more could He do? what would He withhold !? )

 

[evenifigoalone]

What about the fact that when we were given the command to multiply, the population was extremely small? And now we have billions of people?
I'm hardly one of those "overpopulation" types, but common sense is, you run out of room and resources sooner or later. We simply have no need to multiply all the time anymore, and it probably would be best if we slowed down.

 

[follower]

Yhvh said even the best wisdom of mankind is foolishness; so the common sense of mankind isn't likely to be any better than that. (as if mankind had any 'good' sense).
Let Yhvh decide. Let Yhvh lead. That's what He Says.

 

[evenifigoalone]

I think God wants us to use the minds He gave us, though. That means making use of common sense. Yeah, I know, human reason is futile in comparison to what God knows. But He also gave us the ability to reason for a reason. That includes reading the Bible in context and making smart decisions.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

How I see it: if it involves killing a fetus, it's murder and therefore a sin. (Ie, abortion.) If not, it's acceptable. Pretty simple.

Which my wife and I were told includes the pill.

 

[evenifigoalone]

I have to admit I haven't done a ton of research on the pill, but I'm told that the possibility it can remove fertilized eggs is theoretical rather than a proven fact.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

I have to admit I haven't done a ton of research on the pill, but I'm told that the possibility it can remove fertilized eggs is theoretical rather than a proven fact.

Don't know.

As a fifty year old man with four kids, my advice to young couples is to use the rhythm method if you don't want to purposely get pregnant; don't have sex at all if you simply do not want to have kids; and most of all, take responsibility for the sex you do have. But do yourself a favor, realize quickly that marriage is about the privilege of having sex, and having sex means having kids. Don't fight it.

 

[reba]

Sex produces kids.... God also made sex for pleasure... A quick glance at Song of Solomon ?
Each couple needs to seek His direction for their standing with HIM

Good post Jethro

 

[Obadiah]

Your view on this topic.

Simple. For something to be a sin, God must tell us it's a sin. I see no scripture telling me that preventing pregnancy is a sin.

 

[Claudya]

I have to admit I haven't done a ton of research on the pill, but I'm told that the possibility it can remove fertilized eggs is theoretical rather than a proven fact.

The pill will cause a hormonal situation that resembles a pregnancy. Thus there will be no more monthly cycle, no more ovulation, and the cervix mucus will be impenetrable for sperm. One effect of a pregnancy is that the uterus will not allow for additional fertilised eggs to implant and grow in its tissue.
So in theory, if the pill somehow fails to supress an ovulation and also fails to lock sperms out it could happen that an egg gets fertilised but then will be unable to get into the uterus tissue and thus "be aborted". However, that's incredibly unlikely beause the pill is rather safe if taken the way it is meant to (and if for some reason a woman missed a day it's ommon knowledge that she'd need to use additional contraception for the rest of the month), and if the pill fails at the first two things I mentioned it's probably also gonna fail at preventing the implantation of a fertilised egg. So an abortion through the pill is such an unlikely event it's really more like a theoretical scenario.

 

[follower]

like russian roulette but the revolver is always aimed at someone else ...