Millions of Sperm Die with just one survivor

[buffalo]

Nope, you overstate the case. If you read those old texts, you quickly note that contraception has NEVER been equated with murder like abortion is in modern times. This is because even the ancients understood that not every act of copulation resulted in a pregnancy and they rightly concluded that the man’s ‘seed’ could not be considered a human being. They lacked the tools to figure out exactly WHEN the ‘seed’ became a human, but readily understood that it was not so immediately upon ejaculation.

This is also why the Church was reluctant until recent scientific discoveries to classify abortion as a murder. It was ALWAYS considered a grave sin, but not until conception was discovered was it found to actually be the killing of a human being.

Thus, the argument that Church teaching on contraception is wrong because it was based on faulty understanding of science collapses: the teaching was NEVER based on the idea that a human was killed by contraception.

Contraception
Gn 38:9-10 God killed Onan for spilling seed [see next]
Dt 25:5-10 - penalty for defying Levirate law: not death
Gn 1:27-28 (Gn 9:1, 35:11) - be fruitful and multiply
Ps 127:3-5 - children gift from God, blessed is a full quiver
1Chr 25:5 - God gave 14 sons & 3 daughters to exalt him
1Chr 26:4-5 - God indeed blessed Obededom with 8 sons
Hos 9:10-17 - Israel is punished with childlessness
Ex 23:25-26 - blessings promised: no miscarrying, barrenness
Lv 21:17-20 - crushed testicles is called a defect & blemish
Dt 23:1 - no one castrated shall enter the assembly
Dt 25:11-12 - punishment for potential damage to genitals
Rom 1:25-27 - natural function of women = childbearing
1Tim 2:11-15 - women saved through the bearing of children
Acts 5:1-11 - Ananias/Saphira slain - withholding part of gift
Gal 6:7 - God is not mocked-accepting pleasure, denying fruit
Mt 21:19, Mk 11:14 - Jesus cursed fruitless fig tree
Gal 5:20, Rv 9:21, 21:8 - Greek pharmakeia = abortifacient potions
1Cor 6:19-20 - body temple of the Holy Spirit, glorify God with body

 

[joandarc2008]

OK, here is a small biology lesson for you and I really hope that this does not offend or become to graphic:

Yes, many sperm die in the process. However, the ones that don’t make it become part of the “lubrication” needed to help the sperm travel up the uterus and the fallopian tubes. It was an old misconception that the “tail” on the back of the sperm was what made them swim. This is not so. Actually it is the female orgasm.

Inside of the woman are many cillia which during the muscle contractions of that moment found in truly woundrous sacramental unity (yes, we can find it is sin to but those of us who are married will tell you it does not compare) push the little guys up to the egg. It is the “tail” which allows the little guy to enter the egg and begin the process of meiosis or cell division within a single organism. In other words when there is truly love in marimony and caring for the woman as well as the man and it is not just an act of breeding - it works better. God designed it that way.

If you want you could look at it as a microcosm for the dating scene the way it should be. A woman can have her choice of many men but it is only one that makes it in the end. It is kind of beautiful if you look at that way. Start it out with “once upon a time” and end it with “they lived happily after” and leave out the part about diapers and you might be giving Mother Goose a run for her money.

God bless,

 

[paperwight]

OK, here is a small biology lesson for you and I really hope that this does not offend or become to graphic:

Yes, many sperm die in the process. However, the ones that don’t make it become part of the “lubrication” needed to help the sperm travel up the uterus and the fallopian tubes. It was an old misconception that the “tail” on the back of the sperm was what made them swim. This is not so. Actually it is the female orgasm.

Inside of the woman are many cillia which during the muscle contractions of that moment found in truly woundrous sacramental unity (yes, we can find it is sin to but those of us ,

So what are you saying? A woman or young girl who gets pregnant as the result of rape conceives because really, deep down, she enjoyed it after all?

 

[joandarc2008]

No, that is not what I am saying at all. Yes it is possible to get pregnant without the female orgasm depending on the position of the egg however fertility works best with both partners enjoing the unitive act. This is also why IVF is so expensive and has such a high failure rate as well.

God bless,