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cho_pilo
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Please discuss the Catholic’s Church condemnation of ABC method from the standpoint of natural law.
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Scoobyshme
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The natural law is basically the “owner’s manual” for human beings. Like the owner’s manual for our automobile, it describes how it was designed by the manufacturer to operate. Natural law, likewise, describes how we humans were designed by God to operate.
Say, for example, I woke up this morning and got in my car. I noticed that the gas gauge was near empty, and decided I needed to tank up soon. But, suppose I had been “thinking about it” a long time and decided, with all sincerity, that even though my owner’s manual said to put unleaded gasoline in the tank, I thought putting chocolate milk in the tank would be far better for the car. What would be the result? I would be a pedestrian, with respect to that car.
Similarly, we human beings were built to, among other things, multiply. We were given the ability to have sex, mostly to recreate other human beings, but also as a unitive factor in marriage. When we bypass this ability through other means, we’re disabling some part of our nature, put there by God, for His purposes.
From a practical standpoint, consider this… Today, or tonight, in a hospital near you, a little baby is going to be born. The life of that baby began about nine months ago. One day, that hospital won’t be there. Neither will the city, state, country, or maybe even the planet. But that little person will still exist. And what the contracepting couple are telling God, the Creator of the Universe (and them), is this… “We know, that by this act, it may be Your will to cooperate in creating a person who will exist forever. We know this may be Your will. But WE won’t let YOU do it!” An “in your face” type of “NO!” to God. That’s pretty horrific, from a spiritual standpoint, don’t you think?
Say, for example, I woke up this morning and got in my car. I noticed that the gas gauge was near empty, and decided I needed to tank up soon. But, suppose I had been “thinking about it” a long time and decided, with all sincerity, that even though my owner’s manual said to put unleaded gasoline in the tank, I thought putting chocolate milk in the tank would be far better for the car. What would be the result? I would be a pedestrian, with respect to that car.
Similarly, we human beings were built to, among other things, multiply. We were given the ability to have sex, mostly to recreate other human beings, but also as a unitive factor in marriage. When we bypass this ability through other means, we’re disabling some part of our nature, put there by God, for His purposes.
From a practical standpoint, consider this… Today, or tonight, in a hospital near you, a little baby is going to be born. The life of that baby began about nine months ago. One day, that hospital won’t be there. Neither will the city, state, country, or maybe even the planet. But that little person will still exist. And what the contracepting couple are telling God, the Creator of the Universe (and them), is this… “We know, that by this act, it may be Your will to cooperate in creating a person who will exist forever. We know this may be Your will. But WE won’t let YOU do it!” An “in your face” type of “NO!” to God. That’s pretty horrific, from a spiritual standpoint, don’t you think?
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Seeker2010
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Considering you maintain that God got a woman pregnant who had NEVER had sex at all, I don’t think a little latex will get in his way.And what the contracepting couple are telling God, the Creator of the Universe (and them), is this… “We know, that by this act, it may be Your will to cooperate in creating a person who will exist forever. We know this may be Your will. But WE won’t let YOU do it!” An “in your face” type of “NO!” to God. That’s pretty horrific, from a spiritual standpoint, don’t you think?
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Scoobyshme
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God gave us all free will, though. He allows us to choose freely whether to do good or evil. Mary gave God her assent of will to get pregnant and give birth to Jesus. The artificially contracepting couple does not give assent of will. They refuse. You clearly don’t know God very well, do you?Considering you maintain that God got a woman pregnant who had NEVER had sex at all, I don’t think a little latex will get in his way.
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Seeker2010
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Insisting that a couple who is not in a position to raise a child, or simply does not want to, should do so anyway because ‘I’m God, and I said so’ does not seem to me the act of a loving being.The artificially contracepting couple does not give assent of will. They refuse. You clearly don’t know God very well, do you?
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Scoobyshme
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Insisting that one’s will is in any way on an equal footing with God’s will (my want vs. God’s want) is equivalent to making one’s self an equal to God (at least in one’s mind).Insisting that a couple who is not in a position to raise a child, or simply does not want to, should do so anyway because ‘I’m God, and I said so’ does not seem to me the act of a loving being.
You need to study what “love” really is. It is NOT “a good feeling” or “gushiness,” or a “warm fuzzy feeling,” although those sometimes accompany love. It is an act of the will for the benefit of the beloved. The ultimate act of love was Jesus dying on the cross for us. I guarantee you He didn’t enjoy that!
So, if God commands us to go forth and multiply (He does), who are we to say, “No. It’ll be too expensive for me, and take up too much of my leisure time to raise a child. I might not be able to afford all the toys and comfort I want in life. So, no. Not now. Catch me later when I ‘feel’ more giving, okay, God? Don’t call me, I’ll call You.” How selfish!
God is not our “buddy.” Undue familiarity breeds contempt. That’s why no one where Jesus grew up wanted to listen to Him. He is God! He is the creator of the universe, all powerful, all knowing! We, by comparison, are nothing.
Have you ever considered that God knows infinitely more than we do? That He doesn’t “foresee” the future, but sees the future like you and I see the present moment. He doesn’t live moment to moment, but lives simultaneously in the past, present, and future. He’s there already. Don’t you think He can provide for all the kids He wants us to have?
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