Gen 1:28, 9:1,7; 35:11 - from the beginning, the Lord commands us to be fruitful (';fertile';) and multiply. A husband and wife fulfill God's plan for marriage in the bringing forth of new life, for God is life itself.
Gen. 28:3 - Isaac's prayer over Jacob shows that fertility and procreation are considered blessings from God.
Gen. 38:8-10 - Onan is killed by God for practicing contraception (in this case, withdrawal) and spilling his semen on the ground.
Gen. 38:11-26 - Judah, like Onan, also rejected God's command to keep up the family lineage, but he was not killed.
Deut. 25:7-10 - the penalty for refusing to keep up a family lineage is not death, like Onan received. Onan was killed for wasting seed.
Gen. 38:9 - also, the author's usage of the graphic word ';seed,'; which is very uncharacteristic for Hebrew writing, further highlights the reason for Onan's death.
Exodus 23:25-26; Deut. 7:13-14 - God promises blessings which include no miscarriages or barrenness. Children are blessings from God, and married couples must always be open to God's plan for new life with every act of marital intimacy.
Lev.18:22-23;20:13 - wasting seed with non-generative sexual acts warrants death. Many Protestant churches, which have all strayed from the Catholic Church, reject this fundamental truth (few Protestants and Catholics realize that contraception was condemned by all of Christianity - and other religions - until the Anglican church permitted it in certain cases at the Lambeth conference in 1930. This opened the floodgates of error).
Lev. 21:17,20 - crushed testicles are called a defect and a blemish before God. God reveals that deliberate sterilization and any other methods which prevent conception are intrinsically evil.
Deut. 23:1 - whoever has crushed testicles or is castrated cannot enter the assembly. Contraception is objectively sinful and contrary, not only to God's Revelation, but the moral and natural law.
Deut. 25:11-12 - there is punishment for potential damage to the testicles, for such damage puts new life at risk. It, of course, follows that vasectomies, which are done with willful consent, are gravely contrary to the natural law.
1 Chron. 25:5 - God exalts His people by blessing them with many children. When married couples contracept, they are declaring ';not your will God, but my will be done.';
Psalm 127:3-5 - children are a gift of favor from God and blessed is a full quiver. Married couples must always be open to God's precious gift of life. Contraception, which shows a disregard for human life, has lead to the great evils of abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide.
Hosea 9:11; Jer. 18:21 - God punishes Israel by preventing pregnancy. Contraception is a curse, and married couples who use contraception are putting themselves under the same curse.
Mal. 2:14 - marriage is not a contract (which is a mere exchange of property or services). It is a covenant, which means a supernatural exchange of persons. Just as God is three in one, so are a husband and wife, who become one flesh and bring forth new life, three in one. Marital love is a reflection of the Blessed Trinity.
Mal. 2:15 - What does God desire? Godly offspring. What is contraception? A deliberate act against God's will. With contraception, a couple declares, ';God may want an eternal being created with our union, but we say no.'; Contraception is a grave act of selfishness.
Matt. 19:5-6 - Jesus said a husband and wife shall become one. They are no longer two, but one, just as God is three persons, yet one. The expression of authentic marital love reintegrates our bodies and souls to God, and restores us to our original virginal state (perfect integration of body and soul) before God.
Matt. 19:6; Eph. 5:31 - contraception prevents God's ability to ';join'; together. Just as Christ's love for the Church is selfless and sacrificial, and a husband and wife reflect this union, so a husband and wife's love for each other must also be selfless and sacrificial. This means being open to new life.
Acts 5:1-11 - Ananias and Sapphira were slain because they withheld part of a gift. Fertility is a gift from God and cannot be withheld.
Rom.1:26-27 - sexual acts without the possibility of procreation is sinful. Self-giving love is life-giving love, or the love is a lie. The unitive and procreative elements of marital love can never be divided, or the marital love is also divided, and God is left out of the marriage.
1 Cor. 6:19-20 - the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; thus, we must glorify God in our bodies by being open to His will.
1 Cor. 7:5 - this verse supports the practice of natural family planning (';NFP';). Married couples should not refuse each other except perhaps by agreement for a season, naturally.
Gal. 6:7-8 - God is not mocked for what a man sows. If to the flesh, corruption. If to the Spirit, eternal life.
Eph. 5:25 - Paul instructs husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, by giving his entire body to her and holding nothing back. With contraception, husbands tell their wives, I love you except your fertility, and you can have me except for my fertility. This love is a lie because it is self-centered, and not self-giving and life-giving.
Eph. 5:29-31; Phil. 3:2 - mutilating the flesh (e.g., surgery to prevent conception) is gravely sinful. Many Protestant churches reject this most basic moral truth.
1 Tim. 2:15 - childbearing is considered a ';work'; through which women may be saved by God's grace.
Deut. 22:13-21 – these verses also show that God condemns pre-marital intercourse. The living expression of God’s creative love is reserved for a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman.
Rev. 9:21; 21:8; 22:15; Gal. 5:20 - these verses mention the word ';sorcery.'; The Greek word is ';pharmakeia'; which includes abortifacient potions such as birth control pills. These pharmakeia are mortally sinful. Moreover, chemical contraception does not necessarily prevent conception, but may actually kill the child in the womb after conception has occurred (by preventing the baby from attaching to the uterine wall). Contraception is a lie that has deceived millions, but the Church is holding her arms open wide to welcome back her children who have strayed from the truth.So is it true that catholics aren't allowed to use protection when having sex?
It's true that Catholics are not to use artificial birth control.
Within marriage, there is nothing to be protected from. Each and every act of sex is to unite a husband and wife, and allow them to share in the creation of life with God. There is nothing to be protected from in that.
The Catholic Church has always and will always be against sex outside of marriage. Sex within marriage is to be open to life and to love. Couples are to use NFP (natural family planning) in order to know when a woman is fertile. If a couple has a licit reason to not want a child at that time, they can abstain from sex during the fertile time. If a couple using NFP were to have sex every day that a woman was not fertile, they would have sex at twice the national average. So it does not ';limit'; sex as some assume.
Additionally, the condoms and AIDS issue is just plain wrong. The Catholic Church can never condone condom use to prevent AIDS because it cannot condone sex outside marriage or non-procreative sex within marriage. But there are many many groups handing out condoms, and so far statisics have shown that this has not helped at all with the AIDS epidemic.
Not to mention the Catholic Churches stance on this is not going to affect those who are having sex and sharing needles...if they are doing those things they are already not listening to the Catholic teaching on sex and drugs, so why would those people care if the Church says the can't use condoms? C'mon people...use your heads.So is it true that catholics aren't allowed to use protection when having sex?
Yes, that is true.
The only form of ';birth control'; condoned by the Church is the so-called rhythm method, where the couple tries to limit sex to the times when the woman isn't ovulating.
Birth control like the pill, prophylactics, IUDs, spermicides, and diaphragms are all considered sinful by the Church.
Catholics are not allow to use any form of birth control.
Though the church will never admit it, the reasons behind this are financial and crusading. A larger catholic population will tithe a larger income for the church. With a larger income, they can reach out and convert more of the population.
Rather, it's true that Catholics do not consider pregnancy something to be ';protected'; from. We like babies. We like pregnancy. We like motherhood.
The use of the term ';protection'; as a euphemism for artificial birth control indicates an anti-child and anti-life culture.
Yep. If you look at most Mexicans, they seem to have alot of kids within about two years of each other. It's because most of them are catholic, and they can't use birthcontrol. It's considered sinful. My boyfriend's family is like that, but his parents are very traditional catholics.
Why would one need protection if one is only having sex with their spouse? Sex outside of marriage is a sin and that is the reason for so many unwanted pregnancies and disease. Keep it zipped and stay true to your spouse by keeping your marriage vows and one does not need protection
According to the Pope.
But just like any other faith, we have to come to our own understandings of our faith - the Pope is there to guide us, whatever deluded power-hungry maniacs in the middle ages may have believed.
I'm a Roman Catholic, and I (would) have no problem with using a condom.
Rev. Soleil- Don't put words into The Pope's mouth if you are not even going to bother actually listening to him. He never said the purpose of sex was only for pro-creation. That is only one aspect of the conjugal act, there are many others. Take up and read before you post such things.
True. The rhythm method is acceptable, which I find the height (breadth, and depth) of silliness. As if an all-knowing god is somehow unable to figure out the intentions.
Catholics are allowed to wear hard hats, face shields, gloves, aprons, steel toe boots, and self-contained breathing apparatus while having sex, but they are not allowed to practice birth control.
It is a mortal sin to use any form of artificial birth control.
God bless,
Stanbo
P.S. I am Catholic, I have been married 18 years, I don't use birth control and I only have 3 children.
Technically, no.
But then again, the Pope also said that you shouldn't be having sex for purposes other than procreation...
(That's ';for making babies';, for those of you in Rio Linda...)
funny part is that they can only have sex to create a child . man that takes the fun out of it all . i will stick to being a sinner to the Roman God
They are not supposed to no. It's going against ';God's Will';. This is the reason there is such an outcry with the Pope and the AIDS epidemic in Africa. He will not condone condoms.
to a devout Catholic, sex is meant for procreation only, so protection is not something they see as being necessary.
It goes something like this.
Monty Python explains it far better than I ever can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvg…
Yes, this is true. If you should be so dastardly as to have sex with your wife, then you should be punished with as many babies as possible.
Noo! We have free will, just like anyone else. I have no problem enjoying someone carnally or any other way for that matter.
it is true that is what the pope tells them but I hope most can use their own sense.
True
True!
Depends on what you are talking about. Peace
true... tips from the pope (an eternal virgin i guess)
very true, why do think they have sooooo many kids?
Yes, a church official even went so far as to say that condoms *spread* AIDS. It's very sick and they should be held accountable for those deaths that occur as a result of their advice.
They can if they want, some prefer not to.
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