to his brother.
             In the New Testament, there is only one instance where sin is punished by God with immediate death, this was the fate of Ananias and Saphira, a husband and wife who went through the motions of giving a gift to God but fraudulently kept back part of it. The Bible says they lied to the Holy Spirit. (Acts 5: 1-11 Bible). The church believes that in contraception, two people go through the motions of an act of self-giving, but obstruct the results of the union, i.e., the conception of children, which is, they believe is the ultimate purpose for which God created sexuality. Sex is thought to be a gift from God to the married, but with contraception, married couples are accepting the pleasure God built into the act and yet denying Him its purpose. The church believes that artificial birth control is a violation of th
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