Childlessness A Sin, Southern Baptist Leader Says

KWTX ^ | 1-17-06

[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."

[CWOJackson]

"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.

[WKB]

Oh BTW

Thanks for keeping my thread bumped to the top
and getting close to 300 posts.

[CWOJackson]

No problem...I like to keep your kind in plain sight.

[najida]

Oh, don't get me started!

Hrmpt....yeah, seems two of them did come from two parent homes, now that I think of it.... ;)

[WKB]

So you just sit in judgment of others all on your own. How convenient.



Some folks just make it TOO easy.

[WKB]

..I like to keep your kind in plain sight.


Well maybe you aren't as dumb as you write.

[Theophilus]

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.

[najida]

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.

[CWOJackson]

"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.

[WKB]

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

[class8601_nuke]

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.

[CWOJackson]

No problem. Some people even get paid in pieces of silver to sit in judgment of other people's religious faith.

[WKB]

Never got any silver
did get a few gold coins one time though

[Theophilus]

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.

[tioga]

Psst. If God wants you to have a baby He can do it. Till then don't worry. ;)

[RedStateRocker]

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.

[Theophilus]

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.

[Dawsonville_Doc]

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.

[bella1]

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.

[RobbyS]

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.