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+On “A Painfully Familiar Reason for Using NFP”
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+:date: 2017-07-28 22:06:55
+:category: faith
+:tags: culture, sociology, blogComment, sin, Christianity,
+       marriage, feminism, conscience
+
+Record of my comment_ to another nice article_ by Melinda Selmys.
+
+.. _comment:
+    http://disq.us/p/1kwil7h
+
+.. _article:
+    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/catholicauthenticity/2017/07/painfully-familiar-reason-using-nfp/
+
+This is one of those sad places where I am afraid my voice will
+be completely ignored, because exactly the people who will most
+dogmatically insist on NFP will be the ones who will be the least
+likely to listen to the idea of this Protestant. Oh well.
+
+I know that every anti-Crusader will try to beat me down with (a
+bit murky, in my opinion) verse 1 Timothy 2:15 “But women will be
+saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and
+holiness with propriety.” (NIV). I would think that even a woman
+is saved through the sacrificed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
+(and yes, the word is the Strong’s 4982, “sozo” which is
+elsewhere translated as saved; but I am not a Greek linguist so
+I cannot fight this battle for too long). Let me just say that
+I don’t see this verse as the most lucid one.
+
+So, let me suggest that I don’t see it as anything anti-Christian
+if a wife after prayers and discussions with her husband decides
+that her calling in life is something else than popping out
+babies for her whole fertile time. What if she thinks that God
+calls her to be a medical doctor, so after having two or three
+kids she would rather spend her time helping people get healed?
+What if she just decides that God calls her somewhere else than
+having babies at all (even though she wants to be married and
+have sex with her husband)? Are women never allowed to have
+a professional carrier? Also, isn’t it more important have many
+children the couple can bring up well to their adulthood than how
+many children mother produces in the maternity ward?
+
+Yes, willingness to accept kids when they come is certainly part
+of every Christian marriage (no anti-conception is 100% secure,
+especially the less problematic ones are not; and abortion is
+IMHO almost never acceptable), but it doesn’t mean the couple’s
+will should be just discarded, does it?