lydiabeeuk:
i’d like to hear about what it’s like living out this teaching on contraception? Married couples out there - honestly - is it hard to do?, do you ever feel you would be closer as a couple if you could have sex more often?,
is it true that it’s only about 4 days in the month u have to avoid if u are using Natural contraception?
I’d say more like 8 days a month.
Yes, it’s hard in some ways. But not as hard as having a child when your circumstances (health, financial, other serious factors) are sufficient to justify not bringing another life into the world.
No, it’s not all that hard. You learn a lot about mutual respect and what love really means.
Scriptural warrant:
Romans Chapter 1
[14]
I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish:
[15] so I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
[16]For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
. . .
[19] For what can be known about God is plain to them [even barbarians], because God has shown it to them.
[20] Ever
since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they [even barbarians] are without excuse;
[21] for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.
[22] Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
[23] and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
[24] Therefore **God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, **
[25]
because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.
[26] For this reason God gave them up to
dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
[27] and the men likewise
gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
[28] And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, **God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. **
. . .
[32] Though they know God’s decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve those who practice them.
This passage links sexual perversions with idolatry, and Paul names the most conspicuous transgressions.
Paul here affirms that the natural law, which points directly to the nature of God, is completely knowable even to barbarians and without supernatural grace. This natural law reveals that “natural relations” between a man and woman are directed toward procreation. To engage in sexual relations while interposing a barrier between the husband and wife is “unnatural” and “
exchanges the truth about God for a lie and worships and serves the creature rather than the Creator.”
