Posted on 01/17/2006 1:31:49 PM PST by WKB
Rev. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, says it's "an absolute revolt against God's design" if husbands and wives purposely avoid bearing children.
On his Web site and other articles and interviews, Mohler argues that "marriage, sex and children are part of one package" and that "to deny any part of this wholeness is to reject God's intention in creation and his mandate revealed in the Bible."
In a CNN interview, the Baptist leader added, “We grow up by having children. Without that responsibility, we have a generation of perpetual adolescents just growing old."
Sounds like he just wants the rest of the world to be unhappy, too!
Well add it to the list. Forgive me, Jesus.
Ping
Dan
Can't argue with the Bible.. it's a different thing if you can't have children, can't afford them because it's early on in the marriage or if one or both parties realize they are big huge screwups and shouldn't ever have children.
petitfour you are in the clear ping
Witness yuppies.
I agree..
Does this count as a fatwa?
Someone once ask the question:
"Is birth control a form of a abortion"?
I was married for 10 years and it just didn't happen!
But I will say this, single and childess white males get no special treatment as far as taxes are concerned. As a matter of fact we get punished for not having children and not being married.
Is this a great country or what? I mean what's left of it.
People that dont have kids end up being the ones that yell at a kid and take his/her football away if it rolls into their yard.
Older couples without kids have always seemed bitter to me.
Wondering if the media simply took his comments out of context. This being Sanctity of Human Life month to the SBC, I'm sure his comments were meant in the light of birth control or something like that.
The headline is also misleading - Mohler is speaking of people voluntarily avoiding having children, whereas the headline makes you think it encompasses barren people as well.
Bottom line though, Mohler's comments (as reported) don't consider God's Sovereignty. Namely, if He means for you to have a child, no amount of condoms or pills will stop it.
Where is the scripture to back this up?
There is a certain amount of truth in that statement.
Think about it. Married couples that decide to not have children are performing the ultimate selfish act: not having children because they don't fit in your plans and ambitions or will take up too much resources. A childless couple in their 70's and 80's is a sad thing. My next door neighbors were never able to have children and I believe that it bothered her until they day she died.
I didn't marry til age 44, and my husband has 2 grown kids and a vasectomy. Wonder what the good theologian would say about us?
A Man Has Got To Know His Limitations
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