How should a Christian view contraception?
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Asked June 12 2020
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Romeo de Castro
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Danny Hickman
How would it be if sexual intercourse was only possible for a male and female who were put here for each other? If of all the men and women in existence, there is only one possibility of a match? And regardless of how hard you try, no amount of synthetic matchmaking would produce the hormones necessary to get the act underway?
What if we were to be led by our Creator to find our intended match and commit to a lifelong relationship, or live a lifetime of no sexual attraction?
That could be a christian's view of contraception; the view that it would be better if we were only attracted sexually to the person we were put here to marry up with. No one other than that person would arouse an individual to the point of wanting to get sexually involved, and to marry and produce children.
This idea isn't new. There are many people who have claimed to be of the mind I've described. They claim to have been uninterested in anyone until they met the person they knew to be their soul mate. When they met that person, it's as if a switch was flipped and they were then attracted to a man or a woman for the first time in their life. God had kept them "virgin." Is that possible, or is it self-righteousness at its zenith?
Jesus taught that there are three kinds of celibacy: those made celibate by others, those who choose to be celibate, and those who are gifted with celibacy "from their mother's womb" (born that way). (Mt 19:12)
Which is better, synthetic prevention or celibacy?
Danny Hickman
Sexual sin is the only sin in which we sin against our own body.
Any other sin a man commits does not affect his body; but the man who is guilty of sexual immorality sins against his own body. (1 Cor 6:18 GNT)
That sounds a little serious; sinning against yourself; Paul is trying to say something. I think he's comparing sexual sin to something most of us don't want to be guilty of. What is it called when we harm ourselves? We call it suicide. I think he's saying sexual sin is a kind of spiritual suicide. (Remember, he's talking to souls who have been born anew).
Suicide is final! There's no coming back from physical death. Once dead physically, always dead physically. That isn't true of spiritual death. We are born in sin, created in iniquity.
I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. (Psa 51:5 NKJV) The GNT says, 'I have been evil from the day I was born; from the time I was conceived, I have been sinful.'
Since sin leads to death, we were spiritually dead when we were conceived. So how can sexual sin be a kind of suicide? Suicide welcomes our worst enemy! We open the front gate; we unlock the inner door; we say, 'here I am Death, take me, I go willingly.'
That's our attitude toward our new life when we continue in sexual sin. I think he's trying to alert the believer to just how serious sexual sin is. It's like committing suicide.
Is there a contraception for spiritual suicide? Yes; it's called the Word of Truth. We must believe it!