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To: ClearCase_guy

“Rumor has it that we are all sinners”

Not sure what using a condom in and of itself has to do with sinning. Pretty sure that contraception isn’t even mentioned in the Bible.


5 posted on 04/14/2011 8:25:52 AM PDT by Grunthor (The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.)
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To: Grunthor
Not sure what using a condom in and of itself has to do with sinning

Nothing unless it is used in conjunction with sex.

8 posted on 04/14/2011 8:30:36 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: Grunthor
Pretty sure that contraception isn’t even mentioned in the Bible.

Pretty sure you're wrong. Check up on the meaning of the word pharmakeia, often translated as "sorcery". It involved the mixing of potions, almost always for one of two purposes: either as a aphrodisiac or as a contraceptive. Pharmakeia is directly condemned in the NT.

See also Genesis 38. Notice what is specified about Onan's behavior as "wicked in God's sight".

There are good, Biblical reasons why every Christian group rejected contraception prior to 1930.

11 posted on 04/14/2011 8:31:57 AM PDT by Campion ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
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To: Grunthor

“Not sure what using a condom in and of itself has to do with sinning”.

The bible says, “Be fruitful and multiply”. However, it never said to try to multiply the planet by yourself. In my Mother’s and Father’s day, the Church said to restrict the conception of children in ANY form was against the church. The bottom line is to have a lot of children, a family has to be wealthy OR live in poverty. Every single one of my Catholic women friends use some form of birth control (usually condoms) or sterilization after they had their limit.


13 posted on 04/14/2011 8:32:48 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: Grunthor

“Not sure what using a condom in and of itself has to do with sinning.”

Nothing, although supporting a condom company by buying one may be. Also, nothing wrong with using a condom while swimming the Amazon.


43 posted on 04/14/2011 10:37:02 AM PDT by WPaCon (Obama: pansy progressive, mad Mohammedan, or totalitarian tyrant? Or all three?)
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