atheism and children

[Catholic_Lady]

Only if God deems it such.

But he doesn't do much deeming these days. I suspect "lovemaking" was deemed sacred in the bible to contrast drunken or thoughtless sex, which I can sort of see an argument for. The bible doesn't have much to say about IVF, does it? And it will continue to be silent as humans progress through time inventing new ways to better our lives, and what were left with are only a few things mentioned in the bible being "sacred", while new perfectly valid forms of reproduction and the like are being deemed un-sacred, not specifically, but by omission, which means from here to our collective demise, when something new crops up and God is silent, it is we humans who are left to do the deeming, such as "IVF is not sacred".

Now, lets jump back to my world, where the bible was written by man. I get the feeling that the authors that spoke as God would have been perfectly fine with IVF, but since they had no clue about it, of course they wouldn't mention it. This is besides the point, but if the bible was God's inerrant word, you'd think he would have seen IVF coming and actually give us some rules on it. As it is, we're left to do the guessing.

Well, we believe the Church is led by God on issues of faith and morals. So if there is an official teaching about a belief, such as human life is sacred, the marital act is sacred, then we believe that this teaching came from God.

The bible was written way before IVF existed, and as Catholics we believe the Church is the main pillar of truth, not the bible. (not that the bible is false, just that it doesn't hold all the answers by itself, especially on issues that come up as times change, like you said). We believe the ultimate thing that Jesus left us was the Church, with Peter as the first pope. Not the bible. Otherwise, yes, the bible would explicitly hold allll the answers to everything that is to come in the future.

Also, it makes sense to me for human life to be sacred, and for the venue in which human life is created to also be sacred. I don't feel like I'm just blindly following.