Today, under the pretext of knowledge(gnosis - he is talking about Gnosticism) , heretics rise against the Church of Christ. They pile on their books of commentaries. They claim to interpret the gospel and apostolic texts. If we are silent and do not oppose them with true teaching, famished souls will be fed with their abominations. - Origen
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...)
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.
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'.
ReplyDeleteContraception 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...)
ReplyDeleteI don't see what you're getting at at all, here. Could you spell it out for the slow?
ReplyDeleteOur God is not a Child-less Father. Nor is He the same as Mammon.
ReplyDeleteContraception is a sin because ...
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteNobody except for Onan. :-)