Posted on 05/26/2026 11:52:15 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
As David Glade, the rector of our home parish Christ the King Anglican, recently noted, the contentious issue of our day is not “Who is Jesus? or how can man be saved?” (These questions were asked and answered in previous centuries.)
The question of our day is anthropology. What does it mean to be human? To put it simply, the Church in our day needs to preach “the good news of biblical anthropology.”...
Southern Baptist theologian Andrew Walker and Matthew Lee Anderson (a member of the Episcopal Church), address the underlying theological issues at play,
"For many evangelicals, the ethics of in vitro fertilization begins and ends at the question of how many embryos are created and what happens to them. Beyond this, many evangelicals do not even think in vitro fertilization is a “moral issue.” Why would it be, when it seems to be simply a medical technology that helps couples satisfy their deep desires for what God has deemed good—namely, the birth of a child made in God’s image?
… It’s past time to break evangelicalism’s silence about our complicity in the unethical circumstances that arise when sex and conception are divided... By dividing sex from procreation, we reconfigure the form which God has laid down for us to understand the nature of his agency in bringing new life into the world. If a people who emphasize the gospel cannot say no to that division, we are a people unworthy of our name."
In Genesis 2, God gave man and woman strict boundaries through which to procreate...Still, it is important to note that while the use of many reproductive technologies may violate God’s vision for marriage, sex, and procreation (Malachi 2:15), the children formed through these practices are no less valued, loved, or cared for in God’s eyes...
(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...
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They need even stronger leadership on Assisted Abortion Technology.
We should argue about more important doctrinal matters like when God wants Bama to win another national championship. /sarc -- well --- maybe
If young people didn’t delay having babies to pursue earthly desires, this would be much less of a problem.
I believe couples who cannot conceive should adopt. IVF can pass on the same genetic defects that caused the parents infertility to future generations, perpetuating the problem. Maternity clinics should offer to connect healthy women seeking to end their pregnancy, with couples who would adopt their baby.
Good point. Need more help when the seeds and fields are older and well used.
Valid point but:
Abraham and Sarah were not infertile because they married too late, or didn’t try…
Rebekah, Rachel, Hannah, Elizabeth and numerous other women in the Bible were barren during their prime years. And Rachel died at childbirth sadly…
Point is the Biblical ethics still apply at whatever age.
True. Women are spending their most fertile years going to school, pursuing a career, and other self centered interests. Of course, they have been brainwashed that “Freedom from the Patriarchy” is the path to fulfillment, while nurturing and loving a husband and children is a curse.
They’re straining at gnats, and swallowing camels.
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