Is Birth Control Anti-Christian?

[Nomad]

There are contraceptives, pills, injections, and other tools for men and women to stop pregnancy. I read somewhere that God created men and women to procreate and not enjoy sex. How do the Bible view sexuality and sex life of human beings? Is birth control anti-Christian?

 

[Josiah]

There are contraceptives, pills, injections, and other tools for men and women to stop pregnancy.

Contraceptives by definition are designed to prevent conception. Thus, they do no end a pregnancy, they prevent it.

There are some Christians opposed to any contraception that is "unnatural". The Roman Catholic Church is by far the largest of these; the institution is opposed to "artificial" and "unnatural" means to prevent conception (although many Catholics do not agree).

There are also Christians who hold that any method that clearly prevents conception is permissible.

I read somewhere that God created men and women to ... not enjoy sex.

You didn't read that in the Christian Bible.




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[tango]

If God designed sex to not be enjoyable he didn't do a very good job of it. On that basis alone I'd say that sex is as much about bringing husband and wife together as it is about making babies.

 

[Fritz Kobus]

If God designed sex to not be enjoyable he didn't do a very good job of it. On that basis alone I'd say that sex is as much about bringing husband and wife together as it is about making babies.

He did a perfect job of it. It was the fall into sin that ruined it.

 

[Joshua1Eight]

Yes. It is unnatural.

 

[Fritz Kobus]

The one argument against birth control (wow, that terminology just does not sound right) is that the Bible says (my recollection) children are a blessing from God and that more are better than fewer. Are we rejecting God's blessing by practicing birth control?