Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Iglesia ni Cristo member bows to Eduardo V. Manalo
A CRITIQUE OF IGLESIA NI CRISTO EXECUTIVE
MINISTER EDUARDO V. MANALO’S STATEMENT ON THE RH BILL
PART VI
[This
is the sixth part of my critique of Iglesia ni Cristo Executive Minister
Eduardo V. Manalo’s position on the RH Bill. The words of Mr. Manalo are in green while
my comments are in black.]
Iglesia ni Cristo Executive Minister
Eduardo V. Manalo slams natural family planning as "immoral" but accepts
artificial means of contraception such as condoms, pills, IUD, tubal
ligation, vasectomy, etc. as "moral"
… but they also are immoral, since they
contradict the commandment that God has given to married couples.
This statement the Iglesia ni Cristo leader’s warped sense of morality. In what way do
natural family planning methods contradict God’s commandment? As far as the
Catholic Church is concerned, natural family planning is not sinful, hence
moral, if open to life and the will of God:
“Couples
who use Natural Family Planning are allowing God to have some control over
their lives and over the procreation of their children. Natural Family
Planning gives the husband and wife some influence over decisions such as: when
they will have children, how many children they will have and when they will be
born. Natural Family Planning can even be used by older couples to decrease the
likelihood that they will have any additional children.
Anti-life: Mr. Eduardo V. Manalo supports contraception which literally means "against conceiving"
A
husband and wife should have some influence over the decisions of procreation.
But they must also allow, and even welcome, God's power over their lives, their
family and the conception and birth of their children. To use contraception is
to try to eliminate God's role in the procreation of His children.
The
methods used in Natural Family Planning are not in and of themselves sinful,
because these methods are open to life and open to the will of God. There
is no barrier or chemical preventing conception from occurring. The couple is
not doing anything to prevent conception, or to oppose the will of God
concerning the procreation of children. If it is God's will, a couple using
Natural Family Planning could still conceive a child each time they engage in
marital relations. In Holy Scripture, Abraham and Sarah were still able to
conceive a child, by God's will, even though conception seemed unlikely due to
their advanced ages.
If the Iglesia ni Cristo wishes to be
consistent with its support of contraception, it must embark on massive
contraception of its members so that the INC will not grow and will
become extinct in due time
If
there were a natural method of birth control which gave couples complete
control over the procreation of children, such a method would be, in and of
itself, sinful, because it would not be open to life and to the will of God.
The mere fact that a method of family planning is natural is not sufficient to
cause the method to be, in itself, moral. The method must be open to life
and to the will of God.”[1]
Since natural family does not positively
exclude the possibility of transmission of human life through chemicals,
gadgets and devices, it is still open to life and the will of God for the
couple. Such, however, cannot be said of artificial means of contraception.
Thus, natural family planning and not contraceptives fulfill God’s commandment
in Genesis 1:28:
“God blessed them and said
to them,
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.
Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living
creature that moves on the ground” (NIV).
Iglesia ni Cristo deception in supporting the RH Bill citing Genesis 1:28
To justify artificial means of contraception
and population control, the Iglesia ni
Cristo has gone at great lengths to tinker with God’s word in Genesis 1:28.
That beautiful verse on stewardship of God’s creation was twisted by INC
ministers to mean as God's command to have population control. Violating all the rules of sound
exegesis of Scripture, and defying Biblical scholarship, grammar and plain
common sense, the INC ministers unabashedly argue that the phrase “subdue it”
means to “subdue the population.” The INC ministers grossly insult the
intelligence of their members. No thinking individuals should subscribe to that
idiotic and idiotizing view. The verse is plain in simple. It says, “fill
the earth and subdue it” – “it” clearly refers to the earth, not population! This is another
example on how the Iglesia ni Cristo perverts
God’s Word to suit its own purposes and interests! What an abuse of God’s holy
word – a sacrilege beyond description. How long and how far can the Iglesia ni Cristo go in making a
travesty and mockery of God’s Word? Only Mr. Eduardo V. Manalo can tell.
Mr. Eduardo V. Manalo of the Iglesia ni Cristo considers the use of these contraceptives as "moral"
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