[nickcarraway]

misleading headline.

[InvisibleChurch]

Does God forbid not having children?

[sweetliberty]

“We grow up by having children. Without that responsibility, we have a generation of perpetual adolescents just growing old."

Would that were true. If having children brought about maturity and responsibility, I'd be out of a job. Instead, what I see are children beng raised being left to their own devices by perpetual adolescents.

[balch3]

Bump!

[razorbak]

Lo, children are a heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
(Psalms 127:3-5)

[AnalogReigns]

What a bunch of liberal FReepers! The Baptist is simply teaching what the Church has taught from the beginning...ask any Roman Catholic, and yet here he's called a crank.

Protestant doctrine on child bearing was nearly exactly the same as Catholic until the 1930s....and now it's nearly the same as that of planned parenthood. Shame on you so-called "conservatives" for going along with the flow--that after all brought us the joys of abortion.

[JWinNC]

...count me as agreeing with Mr Mohler.

jw

[F16Fighter]

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.

If having NO children is an "absolute "revolt," does the Reverend deem bearing only one child mere "mutiny"??

[Yudan]

Donations must be down. Time to breed new ones.

[Woman on Caroline Street]

This is a case where I can most definitely agree with the addage: "Hate the sin, love the sinner". I'd be happy with the "Love the Sinner" as a standalone statement as it pertains to couples that wish to remain childless.

[jackieaxe]

I had a daughter who died at 3 months and 2 miscarriages. So, yes I have no children (alive). And I do feel like a 46 year old adolescent. I agree with this guy, but I've done all I can do.

[Paulus Invictus]

He refers, perhaps, to an old commandment: "Multiply and replenish the earth." These days we multiply baby murders instead. If those 40 million or so babies had remained alive since Roe v Wade, what would our population be today, one wonders...? We have added maybe as many as 20 million illegals, but how many babies have we produced since the 70's? Are we, like the eurotrash, losing population and doomed to become a third world backwater ruled by illegals and Muslims?

[P8riot]

That's the way these jokers are. They can't address real issues so they invent sins in order to manipulate their "flocks."

Seems to me that Christ had something to say to them;

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Matthew 23:15

[subterfuge]

It's just one guy's opinion. Big whoop.

[narses]

Read the first few replies. It is amazing to see how few really understand or believe what God so clearly told us. "Go forth and Multiply" is a pretty clear command. The good reverend may be Baptist, but he sounds Catholic on this topic, at least to me.

[Tax Government]

The whole purpose of becoming adult is to assist the next generation. For most people, that means creating and improving conditions for children, and creating children themselves.

[TheBrotherhood]

I agree.

[King Prout]

oh. such *fun*, this.

[AD from SpringBay]

This from a friend of mine:

The AP reports that the Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has stirred debate by asserting that it's "an absolute revolt against God's design" if married couples purposely avoid bearing children. A bitter response to Mohler's argument was written by Social Ethics professor Miguel De La Torre, a fellow Southern Baptist minister, alumnus of Mohler's seminary and father of two who teaches at the Methodists' Iliff School of Theology in Denver. De La Torre protested that whether Mohler realizes it or not, his theology is "white-supremacy code language advocating for the increase of white babies." Declining birth rates have been a concern of religious, social, and economic leaders, and Mohler also warned about "huge social problems" that lie ahead, but his primary concern was that raising children is a God-given duty, "a gift from the Lord" (Psalm 127:3-5), and "one of the most crucial opportunities for the making of saints." De La Torre criticized Mohler's viewpoint as anti-birth control, however, Mohler didn't oppose contraception, nor did he define the number of children a couple should have. He also said he wasn't talking about couples who are unable to have children, only those who would "reject this intrusion in their lifestyle."

The Mohler-De La Torre feud reflects two competing approaches: thinkers like Mohler want to apply biblical principles as fully as possible in the 21st century, while De La Torre believes it's "the height of biblical naivete to impose modern concepts upon ancient texts."

Mohler believes the Bible fully applies today, while De La Torre does not. De La Torre, like the deconstructionists, would like to make the Bible contemporary by updating its "mythological structure." And rather than looking for the intended meaning of the Author(s), he would rather "find" his own meaning in the text.

May God deliver us from all such ministers of Satan dressed as "angels of light."