Is it a sin to use contraception?

[farouk]

Questions about sex, generally. If the answer involved [privates], she would get grossed out.

My other daughter would be like "Thanks for giving it to me straight."

Sounds like you did indeed give it to them straight, when they needed to know.

 

[Stan B]

Whether if it's used inside marriage or not, it comes down to self control.

Not sure if you believe contraception should be used within marriage. Perhaps you could expand a bit upon that statement.

 

[Cristo Rei]

You really haven't said anything, so I am not concerned with judging the acceptability of 'nothing'.

Well i did say that the mention of such acts would probably have me banned from the forum, so....
U accept things on the grounds that the bible doesn't condemn it. I think this already answers my question anyway

 

[Waiting on him]

No, i never said it was

Then help me understand please, the stance seems to be we don't support birth control because of what we see in the old testament I the case of Onan, but the weightier matter is overlooked?

 

[Cristo Rei]

Then help me understand please, the stance seems to be we don't support birth control because of what we see in the old testament I the case of Onan, but the weightier matter is overlooked?

I don't know what u mean by "the weightier matter"

 

[Waiting on him]

I don't know what u mean by "the weightier matter"

He gave no provision for the widow, he's devoid of love.

 

[Cristo Rei]

He gave no provision for the widow, he's devoid of love.

Can u please be more clear instead of being cryptic cos i still don't know what u mean

 

[Waiting on him]

Can u please be more clear instead of being cryptic cos i still don't know what u mean

I don't see how it can be any clearer, in the gospel of mark there's a passage of a widow woman who cast money into the treasury, what's your take on the widow woman that cast in all her living?

 

[BreadOfLife]

Well thank you for explaining that to me. I confess I was lead astray by reading Scripture, which says that God was still making people from clay in Job's time:

“Behold, I belong to God like you;
I too have been formed out of the clay."
“The Spirit of God has made me,
"the breath of the Almighty gives me life." Job 33

"Till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
For as long as life is in me,
And the breath of God is in my nostrils" Job 27

And this again confirmed by Solomon (He wrote Ecclesiastes)
"Man's body returns to the dust from whence it came; And the spirit returns to God who gave it." Ecclesiastes 12:7

What am I missing here??

>>It's really unbelievable that a person your age can be as Scripturally-bankrupt as you are . .

Yes! I confess! According to your religion, I am probably ignorant for following Scripture instead of some human replacement for God. So be merciful to me in my ignorance, because unlike you, I rely solely upon Scripture, which is the primary difference between you and I: I have read the Bible, while you very obviously haven't. I am sure God has a very special place prepared for you.

This is a perfect example of your total inability to discern allegorical Scriptural language from literal Scriptural language.
Job wasn't made of "clay". He came from his mother's womb like everybody else after Adam and Eve.

You're not Scripturally-bankrupt because you can READ Scripture. A 2nd-grader can READ Scripture.
You're Scripturally-bankrupt because you don't understand Scripture - and you pervert its meaning in the depths of your ignorance.

 

[Cristo Rei]

I don't see how it can be any clearer, in the gospel of mark there's a passage of a widow woman who cast money into the treasury, what's your take on the widow woman that cast in all her living?

U may be overestimating my knowledge of scripture I think.
I began this thread to learn what other Christians thought about contraception.
What is your opinion on contraception?

 

[Waiting on him]

To cast in or to cast out is this the question?

 

[Waiting on him]

U may be overestimating my knowledge of scripture I think.
I began this thread to learn what other Christians thought about contraception.
What is your opinion on contraception?

I believe God wants for you to see what the story of Onan is truly about, and it is revealed in the new testament.

 

[Waiting on him]

The new testament is the old testament revealed

 

[farouk]

I believe God wants for you to see what the story of Onan is truly about, and it is revealed in the new testament.

Is O. mentioned in the NT?

 

[Waiting on him]

Is O. mentioned in the NT?

Absolutely.

 

[farouk]

Absolutely.

I've forgotten where...

 

[Waiting on him]

I've forgotten where...

In Mark, his brothers widow is also mentioned.

 

[farouk]

In Mark, his brothers widow is also mentioned.

I'll have to look it up...

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him Anyway, if ppl in local churches today - not organized on an OT Jewish basis - were to start to practise 'the duty of an husband's brother', it would be weird and dispensationally aberrant.

 

[Waiting on him]

Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary

און
The verb און ('wn) appears to mean to experience a lot, to be subject to much. It doesn't occur in the Bible but in cognate languages it's either negative and means to be tired and troubled, or it's positive and means to be at rest and enjoy a life of plenty.

Nouns און ('awen) and תאנים (te'unim) are of the first category, and mean trouble, sorrow or toil. Noun און ('on) is of the second and describes an surplus of vigor or wealth and specifically of reproductive powers.