What are your views on contraception?

endacl

Mancomb Seepgood wrote: »

I'm just about old enough to remember the counter in the old Virgin Megastore (I passed it on the way to the video games!) and all of the fuss about that - a bit daft in retrospect.

Did you hear about the fella who came out of the Virgin Megastore with a Daniel O'Donnell album because he was too embarrassed to ask for condoms?

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Fuzzytrooper wrote:

Can you point me to scriptures that support this?

You are a child of God. Do you know what this means? You are to show restraint in sexual matters, just as with food, or drink. You are to be moderate in all your actions, and not give in to base desires.

boardsuser1

100% against it and always will be.

sbs2010

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

If you restrain from masturbation for a few weeks, God provides an outlet for your sexual desire in the form of a wet dream.

Can you not see you're being wound up here? I only hope you are doing the same!!!

If you are then it's a classic. If you're not, oh dear. Do you have any scripture references to back up your very specific understanding of what's allowed or not between two consenting adults?

eviltwin

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

100% against it and always will be.

For religious reasons?

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

eviltwin wrote:

Owen I can't tell if you are genuine or just someone here to take the piss. If you are serious then I feel a bit sorry for you. Science has provided is with the means to control our family and it's great, no-one would want to go back to the days of large families. The world has moved on and there is no going back.

You are not allowing for God in all of this. You have substituted God's role with that of science. This is all very well if you are a non believer. But if you are a believer you have some serious thinking to do.

boardsuser1

eviltwin wrote: »

For religious reasons?

Partly.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

sbs2010 wrote:

If you are then it's a classic. If you're not, oh dear. Do you have any scripture references to back up your very specific understanding of what's allowed or not between two consenting adults?

Did you ever hear of onanism?

RhubarbCrumble

endacl wrote: »

Did you hear about the fella who came out of the Virgin Megastore with a Daniel O'Donnell album because he was too embarrassed to ask for condoms?

I would have thought asking for the Daniel O' Donnell album would have been much more embarrassing

Mancomb Seepgood

endacl wrote: »

Did you hear about the fella who came out of the Virgin Megastore with a Daniel O'Donnell album because he was too embarrassed to ask for condoms?

I heard the joke but it was the other way round.

Nekarsulm

Methodist here.
Contraception is a very sensible way to control the size of family, allowing each child to be provided for to the best of your ability and means.
Of course it's not always reliable, but sure that's a great example of the old Yiddish maxim "Man plans, and God laughts"!

Condoms female condoms, morning after pill, all great inventions.

Lots of posts here about literal application of old Jewish instructions ( many of which I fail to recognise as of any way applicable to Christians)
Maybe useful if you are a Jewish sheep herder trying to populate a large area of the middle East, and living in fear of a terrible and vengeful God who is liable to rain down fire and brimstone if displeased.
In fact, you can dispense with Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers entirely, they have little use to modern Christians, save as curious historical texts.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Nekarsulm wrote:

Lots of posts here about literal application of old Jewish instructions ( many of which I fail to recognise as of any way applicable to Christians) Maybe useful if you are a Jewish sheep herder trying to populate a large area of the middle East, and living in fear of a terrible and vengeful God who is liable to rain down fire and brimstone if displeased. In fact, you can dispense with Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers entirely, they have little use to modern Christians, save as curious historical texts.

Fear God and give glory to Him,
For the hour of His Judgement has come.
And worship Him who made Heaven and Earth and the seas,
And the fountains of waters.

Nekarsulm

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

Fear God and give glory to Him,
For the hour of His Judgement has come.
And worship Him who made Heaven and Earth and the seas,
And the fountains of waters.

Absolutely, Owney.
The rest of the stuff you are preaching is all man-made invention.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Fair enough. God has given you free will to decide as you wish. I am speaking the Truth. Think carefully.

Fuzzytrooper

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

You are a child of God. Do you know what this means? You are to show restraint in sexual matters, just as with food, or drink. You are to be moderate in all your actions, and not give in to base desires.

For the acts you are objecting to, can you point me to scriptures that indicate they are wrong in the context of a husband and wife in loving relationship? In Acts 17 the Apostle Paul commended the Bereans because even with the very message of salvation, they went away and diligently studied the scriptures to see if what Paul said was true. As Christians we have a responsibility to back up our claims from the Bible so I'd like to understand the context for your objections.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you on all points e.g. porn bad etc.

Itssoeasy

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

Fear God and give glory to Him,
For the hour of His Judgement has come.
And worship Him who made Heaven and Earth and the seas,
And the fountains of waters.

So are the people who preach that god is a merciful and loving one wrong then ?

sbs2010

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

Did you ever hear of onanism?

Not before this evening. Ive looked it up -

God killed the guy, so that proves masturbation or withdrawal before ejaculation is bad, is that the idea? Or that having sexual pleasure with no intention of creating a pregnancy is bad?

Is that not reading a bit more into it than is really there? Onan disobeyed his father and refused to follow the law/tradition. That's why God killed him. The specifics of the act he used to disobey aren't relevant.

If I shoot and kill someone and God says that was bad, is it the firing of the gun or the murder that God is upset with?

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Fuzzytrooper wrote:

For the acts you are objecting to, can you point me to scriptures that indicate they are wrong in the context of a husband and wife in loving relationship? In Acts 17 the Apostle Paul commended the Bereans because even with the very message of salvation, they went away and diligently studied the scriptures to see if what Paul said was true. As Christians we have a responsibility to back up our claims from the Bible so I'd like to understand the context for your objections.

Not everything is contained in the Bible. God has given us the gift of Reason, and in fact all God's law is written in your heart.

SusieBlue

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Partly.

Can I ask why you are so against it?

Fuzzytrooper

_Brian wrote: »

I think we’re seeing some serious and vigorous interpretations here.

In places scripture says an eye for an eye, if we take every single word literally there would be a hell of allot of blind people bumbling about, and yet there aren’t, because not every word needs to be taken literally, even the church see that would be foolish.

Not to derail things but some issues people have with literal interpretations of passages may be to a lack of understanding of context. For example, an eye for an eye isn't about revenge. It was mainly concerned with stopping a claims culture so for example if you borrow your neighbours oxen to plow your field and they die, your neighbour is only entitled to an equivalent replacement. They can't go and demand a full here back

Fuzzytrooper

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

Not everything is contained in the Bible. God has given us the gift of Reason, and in fact all God's law is written in your heart.

I would strongly disagree with you there. While there is no mention of the internet in the Bible we can pretty easily determine based on scriptures describing sex within marriage that downloading child porn is wrong.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Itssoeasy wrote:

So are the people who preach that god is a merciful and loving one wrong then ?

God is merciful and loving as long as one repents.

Nekarsulm

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

Fair enough. God has given you free will to decide as you wish. I am speaking the Truth. Think carefully.

"I am speaking the Truth"

Are you claiming to be God?

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

sbs2010 wrote:

God killed the guy, so that proves masturbation or withdrawal before ejaculation is bad, is that the idea? Or that having sexual pleasure with no intention of creating a pregnancy is bad?

God killed Onan because he spilled the seed. Of course sexual pleasure without the intention of creating a pregnancy isn't bad. The sin is in the spilling of the seed.

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Fuzzytrooper wrote:

I would strongly disagree with you there. While there is no mention of the internet in the Bible we can pretty easily determine based on scriptures describing sex within marriage that downloading child porn is wrong.

Of course it's wrong. In fact all pornography is wrong. It's a debasement of women and leads to severe depression.

wench

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

God killed Onan because he spilled the seed. Of course sexual pleasure without the intention of creating a pregnancy isn't bad. The sin is in the spilling of the seed.

So is masturbation ok for women then?

Gleefulprinter

Owney, fondling with the hands is ok as long as you finish up front?

Spider Rico

Oweny is trolling....which is specifically forbidden and he must confess

endacl

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

Not everything is contained in the Bible.

It sure isn't!

n57oxds38gt6cz wrote: »

God has given us the gift of Reason, and in fact all God's law is written in your heart.

Translation: We can make stuff up that makes no rational sense whatsoever.

Doltanian

I am 100% against it for societal reasons, women are becoming too lazy and too selfish to have children and this will cause the indigenous Irish to die out in our own country when women are not having enough children.

The birth control pill and abortion should both be banned and a huge host of tax and welfare measures be introduced to promote more births including a tax on childless couples who choose not to have children outside of valid medical reasons. Controversial yes but it’s just common sense whatever the godless liberals and their disgusting dogma of political correctness might say.