Subject: How about common sense? |
Bible Note: Dear gentlemen, I have found your discourse extremely interesting. Allow me to add a view items in favor of common sense. I too, believe that children are among the greatest gifts which our Lord has bestowed upon us. I also feel that there is no situation in which abortion is anything less than the murder of one of the greatest gifts from the Lord. However, I believe that the original question dealt with what the Bible said in terms of birth control. I will make the assumption that this is referring to artificial birth control such as a physical or hormonal method rather than "natural birth control" of abstaining during "fertile periods". To begin with the obvious, birth control as we know it was not available during biblical times and thus it could not be mentiones in the bible. However, if we look at this from a cultural perspective we are looking at two totally different things. In Biblical times, society was set up as a farming culture. Thus, with the addition of more children, the farmer would prosper more as there would be more people to till the land. Today, in our industrial-based society, more children mean more mouths to feed and I mean that very literally. For example. the Vatican has decreed that artificial birth control methods should not be used as they prevent God's children from being born(my words). In many South American countries where the populations of Catholics are extremely high, most couples do not use birht control. Many children are born and there is no food and very little clean water for them. They are so poor that much of the food they eat is collected daily from garbage dumps. Thus, many of these children die early in life because the socio-economic culture cannot support their life. Sorry I offer no Scripture, but to be honest, I do not know any passages which deal with this matter since we are not talking about murder(abortion) but rather the prevention of a pregnancy. Please let me know your thoughts. Peace |