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[Angrboda]

Speaking of the bible, it just occurred to me: Paul clearly advises to abstain from sex, if at all possible; yet in Genesis, God commands Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. So the "Word of God" both tells us to have sex, and not to have sex. One might escape the obvious contradiction by suggesting that God meant that Adam and Eve do so, but nobody else; but I know of no church that would, given both the issues of homosexuality and heterosexual marriage, and that of contraception. One might suggest that Jesus repudiated the law, but since God himself commanded it, that would seem to invalidate the ten commandments, and besides that, Paul is not himself God; it's hard to see how a mortal can repeal a commandment of God.