Wrong to pray to avoid pregnancy?

[TheLittleLady]

You and your wife did not engage in an act that you know has the possibility of creating cancer, so, the analogy kinda breaks down.

 

[tafan2]

The analogy was only intended to show that us is normal to pray for outcomes that are already determined in the physical world, just as my subsequent examples were. Nothing more or less, nothing about if it was proper in this specific case. So I don’t see how it breaks down. But again, this is really beside the point of the thread. If you want to keep discussing, perhaps you should create another thread, as it might be an interesting topic, since I strongly suspect we all do it at times.

 

[ProdglArchitect]

Like I said, prayer does not involve a time machine.

No, it doesn’t, but God’s presence outside of time, His Eternal NOW, allows Him to apply prayers made after the fact to the event. That could mean that, due to my prayers, God would prevent which sperm would have fertilized the egg from doing so.

I appreciate the advice and the lively discussion. I told my wife last night, and felt much better afterwards. It also looks like we might not be in as much danger as I thought. After adding in her temp information from today it shifted when her ovulation most likely happened, and actually coincided with when I was thinking it had happened.

Either way, after prayer, I have reached a point of acceptance. Honestly, I kinda think I was more worried about telling her than of the prospect that we might be pregnant XD

 

[Anicette]

Aside from the morality of this, one may pray for to never know if they became pregnant. Not all embryos implants themselves and a lot die early in the pregnancy.

In an older time before the injonction of planned pregnancy, it was common that a woman prays for not being pregnant or an early miscrarriage…