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To: metmom

True, the verse does not suggest NFP. But it supports and harmonizes with NFP because it says mutually consenting, prayerful, periodic abstinence can be a good thing.

This is something Scripture never said about contraceptive paraphernalia.


73 posted on 06/11/2018 6:49:23 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Y'all behave yourselves.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; metmom
This is something Scripture never said about contraceptive paraphernalia.

And yet there WERE different types of such "paraphernalia" even back then (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control). Since we know that the Scriptures teaches all things related to our salvation and godly living, wouldn't it be sufficient to cover that topic with God's warnings against adultery, sexual immorality and murder?

85 posted on 06/11/2018 11:24:23 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; boatbums

Except that NFP isn’t about not having sex for the purpose of prayer.

It’s about trying to avoid procreation by other means than barrier methods for the purpose of being able to have sex without being open to procreation, which is what Catholicism condemns.

Catholicism, in many ways, and some very subtle, condemns sex, especially sex for the pleasure of it, as if it’s something degrading and beneath the dignity of humans, especially the “spiritual” and “holy” ones.


86 posted on 06/11/2018 11:36:18 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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