The above is true, byut asserting that parents of newborn children are not automatically blessed is wrong, for it suffers from shallow theology, failing to distinguish btwn children themselves being a gift, a blessing themselves from God, versus turning out to be a blessing in the long run.
According to you, Scripture could say, children are a curse from the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his punishment, which sounds like the god of the pro-life crowd.
Bu what Scripture plainly states is,
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. (Psalms 127:3)
But like as material riches are a blessing from the Lord, both these as well as children can become a curse due to what people do with them. "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. "(Psalms 69:22)
While children are blessing of the Lord, for promises that they will be blessed, parents must,
hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: (Deuteronomy 7:12)
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. (Deuteronomy 7:13)
The shock value of your blog may get you hits, but do not complain at the reproofs of your shallow theology.
Also Psalm 127:
3Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
the fruit of the womb a reward.
4Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the children of one’s youth.
5Blessed is the man
who fills his quiver with them!
There. Fixed that!
“According to you, Scripture could say, children are a curse from the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his punishment, which sounds like the god of the pro-life crowd. “
What? You’ve been drinking? Or am I not understanding the context. Prolifers don’t say children are a curse from God. They also say that Children of a heritage of the Lord!