![]() ![]() Īll of this raises serious questions for the Christian. Alongside of a desire to promote public health, many have encouraged the use of contraception as a means of enabling and maximizing personal choice. ![]() For the majority of modern Westerners, contraception has been touted as one important tool in addressing the public health “problem” of population growth. The vast majority of this growth has taken place in the last two centuries alone, a fact which has caused many to call for more aggressive forms of population control to limit the exponential growth of recent history. Genesis 1:28 records God’s first command to the first human couple, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Since God first gave this command (sometimes called the “cultural mandate” by theologians) the earth’s population has blossomed from one couple to billions of people around the globe. ![]()
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