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Childlessness A Sin, Southern Baptist Leader Says
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| 1-17-06
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."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Mississippi
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To: WKB
"No Didn't even need God to figure that one out."
So you just sit in judgment of others all on your own. How convenient.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:36:38 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
To: CWOJackson
Oh BTW
Thanks for keeping my thread bumped to the top
and getting close to 300 posts.
282
posted on
01/17/2006 3:36:40 PM PST
by
WKB
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
To: WKB
No problem...I like to keep your kind in plain sight.
283
posted on
01/17/2006 3:37:10 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
To: GovernmentShrinker
Oh, don't get me started!
Hrmpt....yeah, seems two of them did come from two parent homes, now that I think of it.... ;)
284
posted on
01/17/2006 3:37:13 PM PST
by
najida
(I wish it were Friday already.)
To: CWOJackson
So you just sit in judgment of others all on your own. How convenient.
Some folks just make it TOO easy.
285
posted on
01/17/2006 3:37:22 PM PST
by
WKB
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
To: CWOJackson
..I like to keep your kind in plain sight.
Well maybe you aren't as dumb as you write.
286
posted on
01/17/2006 3:38:22 PM PST
by
WKB
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
To: ItsOurTimeNow
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. Great point: Mohler could have, maybe should have said that people who choose not to have children for selfish reasons must be already cursed by God because their attitude prevents them from enjoying one of life's greatest blessings.
To: RobbyS
No,
it's what two people who've had similar lives and backgrounds say.
I know two couples who married because then knew they didn't want children. That was one of many of their commonalities from the start.
And I've seen folks who married just to have kids, really didn't care so much for each other as the idea of being parents.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:39:07 PM PST
by
najida
(I wish it were Friday already.)
To: WKB
"Some folks just make it TOO easy."
I'm glad that you find it very easy to sit in spiritual judgment of others so easy...it really demonstrates your Christain faith.
289
posted on
01/17/2006 3:39:18 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
To: CWOJackson
I'm glad that you find it very easy to sit in spiritual judgment of others so easy...it really demonstrates your Christain faith.
Thanks
290
posted on
01/17/2006 3:40:00 PM PST
by
WKB
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
To: CWOJackson
When I was young, I had nothing to do with God. I thank Him will all my heart that He came after me. From what I understand, you don't need a denomination, but "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." I gather with believers to strenghten and encourage them, and to gain strength and encouragement from them. Thanks for not judging me.
291
posted on
01/17/2006 3:41:21 PM PST
by
class8601_nuke
(don't just be critical, be prompt critical.)
To: WKB
No problem. Some people even get paid in pieces of silver to sit in judgment of other people's religious faith.
292
posted on
01/17/2006 3:41:27 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in the Star Wars trilogy?)
To: CWOJackson
Never got any silver
did get a few gold coins one time though
293
posted on
01/17/2006 3:42:28 PM PST
by
WKB
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
To: The Worthless Miracle
So we can't be mature without having kids? Seems like a non-sequitor Sure, you can be mature without having kids. But in my case, having kids helped me. In fact, I need lots of kids because I'm still immature.
To: Laura Earl
Psst. If God wants you to have a baby He can do it. Till then don't worry. ;)
295
posted on
01/17/2006 3:44:07 PM PST
by
tioga
(Speaking out from the god-forsaken frozen tundra of the Hildebeast.)
To: Dawsonville_Doc
Not everybody should have kids; the survival of Homo Sapiens Sapiens is not in doubt due to underpopulation. As to whether it is demographically the RIGHT group of people having kids is another matter entirely, but I would like to PERSONALLY deal, mano et mano with any jerk who impugns that my wife and I made the wrong decision.</p>
It may well be that the people who shouldn't have kids are self selecting since they don't really bring any economic benefit.
I wish it were as hard to get a license to have a kid as it is to get permission to fly a high performance fighter jet, fully armed, over a city.
To: SlowBoat407
I could just as easily say that people who have children are making up for some huge hole in their lives that they can only fill by creating needy little eating machines that will take up all of their time and force them into a purpose. That's a good point, people could be having children because they are selfish. That is partially true in my case.
To: don-o
www.babycenter.com/costofchild/
Following their questions, if I were to have a child this year, I will have spent $941,544 by the time they're 22, exiting college and getting a job worth having.
You still so hot for me to breed? Send the check.
To: SedVictaCatoni
Being godly is a choice. Choosing to do his will is a choice. Ironically, in the Bible it states, "I put before you this day, life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life". We get to choose. The West is ignoring it, the Muslims are heeding it. We're the fools to our own peril.
299
posted on
01/17/2006 3:50:33 PM PST
by
bella1
To: Gordongekko909
In the 13th century the Florentines really went to town with vocational education. They had half the school age kind in the city in the school, and many of them became company managers. Thanks to the church /city schools, the literacy rate in 13th Century Europe was probably higher than it was three hundred years later.
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posted on
01/17/2006 3:51:02 PM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
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