I’ve been told I’m ignorant multiple times from people I would consider to be ignorant themselves.
Particularly and specifically in regards to my pro-life stance on all aspects of reproduction.
I’ve been told I’m ignorant because I’m for abolishing abortion, I’m for reducing teen pregnancy, but yet I do not support the use of contraceptives.
My stance has evolved over the years thanks to a deeper understanding of how contraception works, it’s history and intention, and (most importantly) what God has to say on the issue in His Word.
Now, you won’t find the word “contraception” in the Bible, so don’t even try. But what you will find is consistent, unwavering evidence on how God wants us to treat our bodies, honor sex (His idea, His creation, by the way), and His heart on all human life.
God: on sex, human life and our bodies
I Corinthians 6:18-20
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, you were bought with a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
Anytime we consent to share our bodies sexually with another, we are becoming one flesh. The Bible states that only those who are married should engage in anything sexual. Why? Because marriage is a vow between God and man and is the ultimate human commitment. Only husband and wife should be privileged enough to become one on a regular basis. God knows there is (or should be, rather) a grand picture of everlasting love between married couples that mirrors His own love for us as humans.
Jeremiah 31:3
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
Furthermore, anything we do or put into our bodies, we are held accountable for. The truth of the matter is, contraception (oral, IUD, patches, implants, shots, etc) are poison to our bodies. Not only that, but they ALL, I repeat ALL have abortifacient qualities that even science has confirmed, the pharmaceutical companies know about, and most likely your doctor will either lie or be ignorant about.
http://www.lifeissues.org/abortifacients/
That page will list for you all commonly used forms of birth control and describe the function of all. Notice all have a third function in case the other two fail. The third function of all these forms includes making the endometrium inhospitable to the growing embryo so implantation cannot take place. This is abortifacient. Science knows life begins the moment of conception. The very second that sperm meets that egg, life bursts into being and begins growing and multiplying. It’s epic journey to find a home in the lining of the uterus begins soon after. But this life will die, yes die, if it cannot find a suitable place to burrow.
I cringe thinking of the time I took one of these forms and being so vocal about the atrocity of abortion and un- married pregnancies. Little did I know then, that the time I spent pumping my body with synthetic hormones (which are highly dangerous to women as they are) I may have unknowingly, killed one of my children.
Taking aside the abortifacient properties these drugs poisons should be well known for, we have the issue of putting synthetics into our bodies that readily cause (and have for nearly 5-6 decades) cancers among women. But don’t just take my word for it…
http://healthimpactnews.com/2013/why-birth-control-and-artificially-manipulating-your-hormones-causes-cancer/
Psalm 139:13
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb.
Psalm 139:15-18
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me,[a] O God.
They cannot be numbered!
I can’t even count them;
they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up,
you are still with me!
Psalm 139 cannot be a more beautiful passage. The unimaginable love that God has for us all is both deeper and wider than we could fathom. The thoughts He has for each one of us, even those we would consider the worst among us, outnumbers the grains of sand.
God does not advocate for abortion. And if he were for the use of contraception, in the forms I just highlighted on, what a contradiction that would be! He can’t contradict himself. He’s infinitely good, right, and just.
The difference between your ignorance and mine is that I don’t offer the entire human race a handicap. I don’t believe that we need to look at teenagers, college students, unmarrieds, and the like through broken lenses. We all are accountable for our own actions, like it or not. People can display self control sexually. People can choose to not murder their unborn offspring. People candecide to not consume the poison that they hope will prevent pregnancy, but may end up unknowingly pregnant anyway (and end up aborting their child) through the use of the birth control they so {lustfully} clung to.
To be truly Pro-Life, Pro-women, Pro-Choice (the choices being either adoption or parenting), and Christian is to stand for the health and life of both mother and child in every way. Birth control lovers and Pro-Life Christians are a contradiction.
If you’ve really never fully researched the dangers of contraception and considered how their use doesn’t line up with Scripture, I challenge you to begin your journey with that. It took me almost 6 months as God slowly revealed to me a better way. A way that pleases Him and doesn’t harm my body or any future children He may graciously give.
I’ll leave you with this picture showing how much life God has blessed me with, so far. Maybe then you won’t think I’m so ignorant. But if you still find my position ignorant, and ultimately classify me as ignorant, I’m okay with that. I’m thankfully here to please my God and not man.
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