I do agree that lord has told us to reproduce & multiply. But when he ordered that,
adam & eve were the only human beings on earth. But I do wonder if that is practical
in the current world situation where resources are minimal and there is an over
explosion of population. It's really nice to talk about NFP in this modern world but
isn't that too a kind of contraception where a man & a woman refrain from sex during
fertility period? isn't it the same as any other harmless artificial contraception? In
both the cases, I find that the reason is the same - "preventing conception". As
far as I've heard from doctors, NFP is not safe.
Can someone elaborate on this?
Bensi Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Friends,
The devil is a smooth operator. His favorite devices are sex
education, contraception and mass media. Sex education is not dangerous
provided it follows the guidelines set by the Church on modesty and purity.
Oftentimes the sex education is used by Satan to excite a youth to lust.
Most of the schools in the United States and Europe now have incorporated
sex education in their curriculum. Schools teach artificial birth control
methods as prevention against contracting HIV- related diseases. In a
community college in California, this was even made a requirement for
admittance. All freshmen students were treated to a "live demonstration" to
how HIV is transmitted to both the opposite and the same sexes. " We are
only interested in your own health", the teacher said. "We promote safe sex
here in this college"
What the youth do not realize is that to play with sex for
experimentation before marriage is fornication; with other partners during
marriage is adultery. Fornication and adultery are both mortal sins, which
will bring us to hell.
Sex education encourages masturbation as a healthy practice,
which any normal individual, whether male or female, should engage in as a
form of release from pressure or tension. However Pope Paul VI decried this
act in his Sexual Ethics as a grave sin, being intrinsically evil. And this
is where a lot of people are misled because of wrong information given by
psychologists and sex education teachers. A person who has engaged in
habitual masturbation will not hesitate later on to urge another willing
victim to indulge in other promiscuous sexual acts. With the availability of
artificial birth controls, the evil of seduction gains more adherents. The
devil succeeds in making impurity, adultery, fornication, and sexual orgy
accepted norms of society, which ordinary individuals must regard as
natural. This is the great deception! Remember the scripture is clear: NO
ADULTERR, FORNICATOR, DRUNKARD AND GAMBLER WILL EVER ENTER THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN.
It is erroneous and unsound to put all the blame on Satan and his
legions for all the evil in the world without also considering human
responsibility. Temptation, it must be remembered, no matter how grave in
its nature or duration, remains only a temptation. No guilt or sin is
committed as long as we do not give consent to evil.
We must be bear in mind that though we may, most of the time, find
ourselves sinning and conniving with the devil, we can still take this
occasion to repent, and redouble our confidence in Gods mercy. "The sin,"
as Leon Christiani aptly says in his book Evidence of Satan in the Modern
World, "which is regretted as soon as it is committed, because one knows
that it involvement of Satan, is a accident, a false step, a lapse. It does
not prevent spiritual progress"
By virtue of Our Lords passion and death and His triumphant
resurrection, He has gained for us the victory over sin. Our duty is to
bring about in our lives that victory. Jesus has conquered the evil one.
Christ tells us: "Let not your hearts be troubled
for Im with you until
the consummation of the world"
St. Paul tells us: "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, Our Lord."
Let us then fight the good fight. The battle, St. Prosper tells us,
shall cease when life shall have ended, and the conquest of the eternal
Kingdom shall attained.
Bensilal Chacko
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