Probably the same way that no denomination today comes out railing against cannibalism - it isn’t an issue because everyone just assumes that that’s completely evil. No discussion is necessary because no one is arguing that it’s okay.
No, they asked about contraception in the book (and the Roman Catholics were asked about Sola Scriptura and the Baptists were asked about Saints. It was a comparative book, so distinctives from each were asked of every denomination). Not a single church except for Roman Catholic was against it. Each one said that it was either not a theological issue at all, or that it was between the couple and their minister.
If the book was written before 1930, contraception was illegal back then, so how would it come up in a survey?
In the US it wasn’t universally illegal before 1930, especially due to government concern with venereal disease in populations of soldiers in World War 1. You can still find a lot of the government posters encouraging contraception to soldiers from that period.If the book was written before 1930, contraception was illegal back then, so how would it come up in a survey?
Do you think married couples were using it, though?
I never asked my grandparents if they used contraception, so I have no clue if they did or not. They were all Roman Catholic anyway actually, and now that I think about it, one I know never did (don’t ask) and the other had seven kids so probably not.Do you think married couples were using it, though?
Prostitutes and those who make use of prostitutes (including soldiers) did use it, I know that, but prostitution was also illegal, and you can’t go to jail twice for the same crime.
I’ve read the Didache, multiple times, and no, no they don’t.
The Didache forbids it, so it is really neither here nor there what the Protestants were doing either before or after the legalization of birth control. Also, Peter gave the Keys to the Bishop of Rome, so whatever he says goes, even if the Apostles didn’t “really” say that birth control is a mortal sin, if “is” doesn’t really mean “is.”
The Didache forbids abortion, not contraception. The two are not always equitable.
And the Bishop of Rome retains them today.
“The sorcery of prostitutes” probably refers to both abortion and birth control. But even if it doesn’t, the Bishop of Rome has spoken; the matter is closed.
Every non-heretical bishop has the keys of the kingdom. It comes with being a bishop. No bishop has ‘more keys’ or something than any other.And the Bishop of Rome retains them today.
Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep up with the revision of history that comes out of your ever ‘developing’ doctrines.“The sorcery of prostitutes” probably refers to both abortion and birth control. But even if it doesn’t, the Bishop of Rome has spoken; the matter is closed.
I am fully aware that we have had scoundrels and heretics sitting in Peter’s chair. That doesn’t take away from the fact that it is Peter’s chair.
There has to be a final decision-maker, though, and it happens in this case to be the Bishop of Rome, Peter’s successor.
Where did you come up with the “Church Catholic”??? Never heard of that before. Cleaver,. God Bless, Memaw
It’s a very, very old term. Batman did not come up with it. It was the preferred term that the Reformers used when taking about the entire church - so as not to exclude those in Rome, or Constantinople, or anywhere else (and I’m sure it was used well before then). Lutherans, at least, have always recognized that the church exists wherever the Word is preached and Sacraments rightly administered (even if we think the Truth is less clear in a different communion).
). Perhaps Christians would, necessarily, band together, as they already do in areas of the globe that see those of the Faith persecuted. But the fact remains; 1.2 billion less Christians is a hypothetical I’d rather not imagine. 
Boat loads of secular historical source…along with Orthodox source attempting to justify. All you need to do is Google it and it takes you about 5 minutes.
