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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But NFP is not supposed to be used lightly, and there are many other situations that restrict spouses' access to one another (travel, long-term illness, stresses). And yet spouses are called to be faithful to one another. [/quote]

Two questions:
Why is NFP acceptable, but other methods of contraception are not?  Is there a biblical basis for this?  
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First question:  NFP is not a "method of contraception," because it is in no way contraceptive.  Contraception is the choice (by any means) to impede the procreative potential of a given act of sex.  If you are "using NFP," you NEVER choose to impede the procreative potential of a sexual act.  It is the difference between sterilizing yourself and recognizing God-given times of infertility.

Second question:  Church teaching is found in encyclicals (Casti Connubii and Humanae Vitae) and the Catechism, because Catholics accept the authority of the Church.  But all of these teachings have a biblical basis.  Christ Himself taught that men and women become "one flesh," and what God has joined, no man may put asunder (Mt 19:6).  God created sex to be unitive and procreative, and it is not our place to separate sex from babies.  Ephesians states that men are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, and His love would never be deliberately sterilized.  Genesis states we were created in the image and likeness of God, that His creation was "good," that we are "fruitful.". Children are referred to over and over again as great blessings.

Scripture is a love story.  God is love, God loves us, we are to love as God loves.  God chose to have sex be the way more humans, with eternal souls, come into being.  The uncreated Love that is God touches the created world, between husband and wife, and a unique new person begins.  Amazing.

The real question is, how can contracepted sex be biblical?[/quote]

Is abstinence within marriage to avoid pregnancy licit?[/quote]

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