Life When Does It Begin? In my experience as a Christian, the most important single question seems to me to be, when does life begin, and what does God think about Birth Control and Contraception? Most people avoid these issues like poison, yet I can't imagine anything more important that needs to be debated in the Church. But, when and where is it allowed to be debated? I, personally, think life for all of us began at the "foundations of the earth" as the Bible says, and as is testified to by many things God says in the Bible. Actually, it was not too long ago that it was a unanimous opinion in the entire Christian Church that all Birth Control and Contraception was a taking of life. For 5000 years this view has pretty much been the view of Judeo-Christianity all the way down to the 1920s when the Anglican Church, bowing to social pressures, OK's Birth 'Control, albeit with a good deal of hand-wringing reluctance, followed over the years by most, but not quite all, Protestant denominations. The Catholics stood relatively firm against this decision of the Anglican, Lambeth Conference, down to the present, but even the Roman Catholics have felt enormous pressure to change their view, and have by approving so-called "natural" birth control, which seems to differ from "artificial" birth control, only in degree. Humanae Vitae Encyclical was their authoritative response to Lambeth, and yet it is not as firm a rejection of Birth Control as was in place prior. The big "loophole" in Humanae is the application (or invention?) of a new term called "Natural" Birth Control, as opposed to "Artificial" Birth Control. Natural means, essentially, the so-called Rhythm Method, wherein the couple avoid relations during the woman's fertile period of the month, of 15 or so days. Of course, this "dodge?" must be used prayerfully, and not abused, but evidence is that it is simply used for convenience, much like "artificial" means. Well, there you have it. Note: This "natural" system also contradicts the Bible where in Leviticus God instructs that the husband is to "go unto his wife" only during the 15 fertile days, and avoid "going in unto" during the time of her period.Now, the consequences of the implementation of this matter are enormous. Whole nations are slated to disappear (mostly the Christian ones) from the face of this earth because of low birth rates created by the large scale use of ALL KINDS OF Birth Control. Mathematically, any group of humans who reproduce at half of replacement, the rate currently in most of the West, become statistically extinct in less than 100 years. By that figuring Europe and most of the West are gone by the end of this century. If we are not going to be here, what will we need with the Constitution, the Flag, AND the Bible? So this issue has absolutely profound consequences for all kinds of things, including National Defense and social, and economic issues of all sorts, such as immigration, legal and illegal. While it is an issue the Church should debate, there is little debate. Why?