Sorry, but this comment absolutely made my blood boil. I'm raising a grandchild so I know of what I speak. This attitude SHOULD NOT be encouraged.
That attitude is a prescription for disaster as we can see everywhere around us.
You beat me to it!
The author's reply should be: "Yes, we would take care of it. We would find a Christian adoption agency to place the child in a Christian two parent home, because that is what God says is best."
I agree with you, although I don't have your experience. "If God gives me a baby"? God doesn't go around knocking up girls. He did it once only, and I don't think anyone else should expect that kind of outcome.
Exactly. Despite the way society seems to look askance, they FINALLY learned what causes pregnancy and how to avoid it.
Shame is a very useful tool to inhibit immoral and stupid (and socially expensive) behavior. When shame went out the window, so did thinking about the results of one's actions.
And creating a human life is the most egregiously harmful thing one can do if it is not done in the proper context.
This is probably the toughest part about being a Christian.
Divorce is not a problem any more and dumping your wife for a young hottie - even if you are a Christian - is a non-issue. However, once upon a time my uncle (a doctor) had a man come in and remove his wife's records because he found out my uncle was a divorcee.
Somewhere in between those two extremes is where we need to live. Divorce is a bad thing. Some kinds of marriages are worse. G-d hates divorce but G-d gave Moses a law about how it should be accomplished "because our hearts are hard."
We must walk a tightrope. It is commanded of us by Jesus. If you encourage someone to sin it would be better for you if a millstone were tied around your neck and you were cast into the sea. But let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
We don't like walking the tightrope but the Christian can do no less.
I wish I were better at it.
Shalom.
Actually I chuckled when I read that. Before I determined how babies were created, I had heard that they were a gift from God and assumed that you prayed for one and God gave you one. (I was raised in the 50's)
I remember a front page story back then of a 10 year girl who was pregnant and figured that she had prayed for one too soon.
Since the author said that she hadn't given her child "the talk" (I'm still waiting for mine from my dad...) I'm going to assume her thinking was as pure as mine was back then.
The problem is that God doesn't "give" unwed mothers their babies. The unwed mothers-to-be engage in sexual activity, the result of which can be a pregnancy, which thenceforth becomes a newborn with God's help.
These idiots who believe that their "choice" needn't include keeping their knees together really burn me up!
Jesus offered Mary Magdalene forgiveness but he followed with the admonition with "God and sin no more." Notice he did not condone sin but asked that she quit sinning.
Sin causes babies and forgiveness should be offered by each Christian but parents who offer to take the responsibility of their unmarried daughters are out of their minds.
Their daughters should be told that should they get "in the family way" they will be offered a simple marriage or help with adoption but as to continuing to support them and their child (and future children)is not optional.
Before any of you jump on me, I've been there with my youngest daughter (they first chose adoption then after the birth, decided to get married) and my youngest step daughter (who chose to keep her twins and after a short stay with us, got a job and moved out on her own and continued her college with the help of student loans that she will repay.) She later married a very nice guy and they have another daughter.
As my wife and I are also raising a grandchild I agree that the attitude depicted here should not be one society accepts. Children are much to precious to have such a cavalier attitude about child rearing.