Birth Control Is Not Child Friendly

[Founder]

How can we talk about Biblical Families without talking about the devastating effects of Birth Control on children and families. I believe Birth Control is offensive to God, and find many references in the Bible that supports my position. I hope you will agree.

 

[redfox]

I would definitely agree.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry but I can't agree with this. I believe Families should have as many children as they want as long as they are able to adequately provide for those children. I've seen many families who don't believe in birth control, have one baby after another. Many of them wind up on welfare. I don't see that as a positive outcome. I am staunchly pro-life but I believe it is perfectly okay to limit the number of children a family has.
Ultimately, it's a personal decision between The parents and God.
Blessings,
Fairlight

 

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry but I can't agree with this. I believe Families should have as many children as they want as long as they are able to adequately provide for those children. I've seen many families who don't believe in birth control, have one baby after another. Many of them wind up on welfare. I don't see that as a positive outcome. I am staunchly pro-life but I believe it is perfectly okay to limit the number of children a family has.
Ultimately, it's a personal decision between The parents and God.
Blessings,
Fairlight

That is not the bible's position on having children, actually. Throughout the bible, God is the one who opens and shuts the womb.

 

[Anonymous]

[quoteThat is not the bible's position on having children, actually. Throughout the bible, God is the one who opens and shuts the womb.][/quote]

I'm not denying the sovereignty of God in these matters. I am stating that it is a personal decision between a family and God. IMHO, Having more children than you can afford and care for is irresponsible.
Blessings,
Fairlight

 

[Love]

First of all, I do think that birth control is the mother of abortion....I think that for a culture such as ours to accept ripping a child limb from limb from it's mother's body, that first it had to change it's perception of children. We went from seeing children as a blessing and a treasure to using birth control which seems to suggest that children are something dispensable.. a thing to be willed into or out of our lives.

I do however believe that God meets us where we are. If God has given you a conviction that using birth control is sin...then to you it is sin. Let's not lay sin at the door of our fellow believers who have not been convicted in this area. Over the years, I have been convicted of many things that are counter to our culture...if I had been convicted of all of them at the same time I would have been totally overwhelmed. The work God does in our lives is timely and purposeful. I think it is appropriate to share our differing convictions without taking on the responsibility of being someone else's personal holy spirit.

I also believe that if a family has children that they can not "afford" then their ability to afford them or not has nothing to do with the number of children, but with the parent's ability to manage money. Frankly, I could support ten children on what I am using now to support three...it depends on how creative, thrifty and organized you are willing to be. God will always provide for what He has called you to do.

 

[Tlaloc]

An old thread touched on this issue from something of a different angle,

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=577&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

It has been talked about, though it was pretty well settled and no one new has brought it up till now.

Founder, whatever you have you can't have many references to support your position. The closest thing we have to a reference on this issue is in Jasher, thats not cannon, and even if you consider it to be accurate it's talking about an old one way ticket kind of birth control administered before the woman has had any kids. You might be able to infer quite a bit and assume quite a bit more but you can't have direct references for a topic that isn't directly discussed.

ItsOk hit on an important concept of things being in Gods time, and while one should have and raise kids there is no requirement to have as many as theoretically physically possible.

Love,
Abortion has a very old and deep history, in Jesus own time abandonment of newborns, especially girls, was very much in vogue. Reliable, limited duration birth control is a this century invention. Birth control is certainly not the mother of abortion. But I certainly agree about thrift, even with a lot of children a family shouldn't be struggling, though they will have to think what modern luxuries are actually needed.

 

[Anonymous]

Birth control has periodically been a very hot topic among religious groups for a variety of reasons. Among the non-believing world it is usually about economics and personal freedom. Don't you just love forums, a place to share ideas and air theories for discussion. There are many things that God doesn't speak about specifically, but in principle. There are some issues He doesn't speak about at all. Does this mean that He doesn't care or know what is right? Hardly so. What many of us as believers miss, is that God, the Holy Spirit, fills and leads His people in all truth and wisdom, often apart from a Bible verse. Be certain, He will never lead us contrary to His Word, but always parallel to it. God also entrusts us with His wisdom and truth, to do that which is right and expedient, without having to stop and pray over each incident or event. In regard to birth control, a discerning man and/or woman may recognize that child birth may very easily terminate the life of mother and/or child. For them to make the reasonable choice to not conceive is a decision based on the available wisdom. To continue with pro-creation at such risk is like playing Russian roulette with semen rather than bullets of another kind. I think most thinking believers will agree that a choice to not conceive is a wise move in such a situation. So, what if the husband is physically able to produce, but not work, is this another type or the same type of consideration? IMHO, which is all any of us have in this issue (no pun), what is really a concern to most good folks is how we refrain from having children we are not able to raise safely. I also think we would agree that termination after conception is off the table. The issue, therefore is how to not conceive. Chemical means may work for some, but for others may also pose an increased health risk. Abstinence from sexual activity is a possibility that works EVERY time, but this denies many wonderful physical, spiritual and emotional benefits to the spouses. God has created women's bodies with amazing characteristics that allows them (with attentive obsevation) to recognize likely times of fertility. This observation and recognition allows a couple to implement or avoid conception with a fairly accurate success rate. Again, IMHO who can find fault with responsible spouses for using such tools? Are we to have sexual relations every time we meet in the chance that God wants to give us a child and we don't want to get in His way? While that may sound good momentarily, reason takes over and reminds us that no work would every get done. Bottom line, personal responsiblity works very well with the will and design of God and His plans. We are instructed to think AND pray.
Thanks,
John and his humble opinion

 

[Chaplain]

Brother John,
Good reply. Could not have said it any better.

 

[nathan]

Since this has been covered in depth several times this year, and we don't wish it to become a major area of debate again, we are locking this thread, and refer you to the thread Tlaloc pointed to, and to this one, if you'd like more information:

http://www.biblicalfamilies.org/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=802&p=8297

The final post in that thread we reiterate:

And since the entire subject is one that must come under Grace in one's current walk with God, we at Biblical Families are absolutely in agreement with an earlier poster in this thread who said the question must ultimately be answered by each family individually, after hearing from God for themselves. Or as Nathan Wilson put it so well in the linked article: "What matters is that you can stand before God with a clear conscience on this issue."