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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?
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