Nowhere does the Bible command Christians to procreate.

by moomanchu 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  BurnTheShips

  I knew about pennyroyal as a contraceptive, but the others I didn't.

  It is very possible that Paul's admonition against sorcery includes the practice of contraception, since in those times it was intimately associated with witchcraft. From the earliest times contraception was indicated against in Christian writings. As cameo-d's quotes say, contraception was a common practice in ancient times. But so was abortion and infanticide. That these things took place does not mean that Christians were encouraged to practice them, quite the opposite.

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  snowbird

  In the backwoods where I grew up, my paternal g'ma was a midwife, and a darned good one from what I hear. She delivered all but 1 of my mother's 13 children.

  I was told that if a woman or girl was suffering from "female trouble" and went to her, she would compound a herbal potion for them and that would be the end of the "trouble."

  I wish she had written down her remedy. It would have saved us a lot of trips to the store to buy Midol and Lydia Pinkham!

  LOL.

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  BurnTheShips

  I was told that if a woman or girl was suffering from "female trouble" and went to her, she would compound a herbal potion for them and that would be the end of the "trouble."

  Sounds like my wife's mother. She earns her living in these ways and in removing hexes as well as palm reading etc. She is a bruja and supposedly a powerful one.

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