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Bible and Birth Control
CHAPTER TWO
TWO ALTERNATE VIEWPOINTS ON BIRTH CONTROL
by "A concerned Friend"
and
Pastor Roger Kovaciny
and
THEIR REBUTTALS
by Charles D. Provan
The rest of the populace is more wicked than even the heathen themselves.
For most married people do not desire offspring.
Indeed, they turn away from it and consider it better to live without children, because they are poor and do not have the means with which to support a household.
But this is especially true of those who are devoted to idleness and laziness and shun the sweat and the toil of marriage.
But the purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household.
This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils.
But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.
Those who have no love for children are swine, stocks, and logs unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the Creator and Author of marriage.
Martin Luther
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