May Blossom Ministries

Bible and Birth Control

CHAPTER THREE

PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS
AND
THE ONAN INCIDENT

Compiled and Edited by
Charles D. Provan

Today you find many people who do not want to have children.  Moreover, this callousness and inhuman attitude, which is worse than barbarous, is met with chiefly among the nobility and princes, who often refrain from marriage for this one single reason, that they might have no offspring.  It is even more disgraceful that you find princes who allow themselves to be forced not to marry, for fear that the members of their house would increase beyond a definite limit.  Surely such men deserve that their memory be blotted out from the land of the living.  Who is there who would not detest these swinish monsters?  But these facets, too, serve to emphasize original sin.  Otherwise we would marvel at procreation as the greatest work of God, and as a most outstanding gift we would honor it with the praises it deserves.

Martin Luther