Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
You said it leads to estrangement from God, estrangement from God is something that God does not want, or is that not so?
You also said prayer is always better so if people would strive to always do the best thing, they would always pray instead of having sex, which basically sounds like the only ideal way to please God is to never have sex but pray a whole lot instead. So basically only people who are estranged from God and do not do their best to be close to God can have children, so either God wants you to behave in a non-ideal way by getting children or he wants your family to die out, neither sounds very true to me.
What you are saying would be correct, theologically, if Prayer were only some sort of "act" which one engages in. However, if you concieve of payer in a more spiritual sense as a reaching towards God then it is, theoretically, possible to do that all the time and still, eat, drink, have sex, etc.

From a theological persepctive the problem with this is that we tend to be bad at thinking of God, or even being aware of him, when doing stuff we enjoy.

As I said, read the "Song of Solomon" in bed with your wife.

Personally, I need to take a cold shower every five verses in order to get through that part of the Bible.