“So it’s up to Christians to, in a sense ‘take back control’ as it were — and hand things back to God. NFP is a complete mentality shift from a contraceptive approach.”
So is it the Catholic position or really God’s Truth?
God gave us life and made us in His image and God provides for us, should we hinder or block this gift of life through artificial contraception or abortion?
I understand that humans like choice, but why do we have so many versions of God’s Truth in our Christian churches? Do we follow the ways of the world or our version of God’s Truth?
A friend of mine linked me to an article the other day which described how "waiting on God" is an active, rather than a passive process. Because waiting on God should actually translate into "abiding in Christ" (and not merely twiddling one's thumbs.)
Applying this logic, I figured that NFP wasn't sexist because it promotes abstinence within marriage. An 'active' abstinence involving both the man and woman sacrificially forgoing sex for a time for whatever reason (like if either the husband or wife were sick for example.)
Saint Paul advised that there is benefit to be had in taking times of mutual abstinence for prayer and fasting:
5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. (1 Corinthians 7)
And either way, always leaving the room for the possibility that God will still open one's womb even if 'unplanned' from the earthly end of things.