May Blossom Ministries

Bible and Birth Control

CHAPTER ONE

NINE REASONS WHY
THE BIBLE PROHIBITS
BIRTH CONTROL

by Charles D. Provan

For this word which God speaks, "Be fruitful and multiply," is not a command.  It is more than a command, namely a divine ordinance [werck] which it is not our prerogative to hinder or ignore.  Rather, it is just as necessary as the fact that I am a man, and more necessary than sleeping and waking, eating and drinking, and emptying the bowels and bladder.  It is a nature and dispostion just as innate as the organs involved in it.  Therefore, just as God does not command anyone to be a man or a woman but creates them the way they have to be, so he does not command them to multiply but creates them so that they have to multiply.  And wherever men try to resist this, it remains irresistible nonetheless and goes its way through fornication, adultery, and secret sins, for this is a matter of nature and not of choice.

In the third place, from this ordinance of creation God has himself exempted three catagories of men, saying in Matthew 19 [:12], "There are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven."  Apart from these three groups, let no man presume to be without a spouse.  And whoever does not fall within one of these categories should not consider anything except the estate of marriage.  Otherwise it is simply impossible for you to remain righteous.  For the Word of God which created you and said, "Be fruitful and multiply", abides and rules within you; you can by no means ignore it, or you will be bound to commit heinous sins without end.

Martin Luther