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It's because of stuff like this floating around online: Calvinism Declared By The Church Fathers . TOTAL DEPRAVITY Barnabas (A.D. 70 ):...
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I am Augustine, thy Father: Thou shalt have no other Fathers before me .
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This text is one of the most critical texts for defending the Protestant doctrine of Sola Fide , that is, salvation by grace, through faith,...
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"All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God, but they are justified for nothing by His grace through the ransom provided in Ch...
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St. Polycarp of Smyrna was a disciple of St. John the Apostle and a friend of both Sts. Papias of Hierapolis and Ignatius of Antioch, who we...
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF GOD,
HAVE MERCY ON US,
THE SINNERS.
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I see what you are getting at, but you are accidentally labeling the barren and those living together as brother and sister as sinful because they remain a 'Binity' and celibates for remaining a 'Unity'.
Contraception is a sin because so many of the methods (all, in the ancient world) are actually abortifacients and because contraception flies in the face of the command to "be fruitful and multiply".
Virginity is good, and so is marriage. But to rip the fruits of the later while denying its toils and pains is despicable in the sight of the Lord. (I also don't understand how onanism can cause abortions either...)
I don't see what you're getting at at all, here. Could you spell it out for the slow?
Our God is not a Child-less Father. Nor is He the same as Mammon.
Contraception is a sin because ...
The underlying reason it's regarded as sinful is not simply because it kills. Even a non-lethal form of conception is sinful. As Luka pointed out obliquely, onanism is still sinful, but nobody gets killed.
onanism is still sinful, but nobody gets killed.
Nobody except for Onan. :-)