other one Posted September 18, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 596 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,088 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,829 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 hours ago, JoniSteele said: God tells us to "be fruitful and multiply". What if you are a Christian who goes through life single and never has any kids or a barren Christian woman or a married couple who have not been able to conceive...What is it that you "multiply"? adopt... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoniSteele Posted September 18, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 130 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 124 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, other one said: adopt... That's good for the married Christian. There are also the single ones to consider. Some of them will never marry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoniSteele Posted September 18, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 130 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 124 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 8 minutes ago, johnthebaptist said: Paul tells us that if we have control of our desire, it is better to remain single (1 Cor 7:36-38). That lets some of us off the hook, I think. As for those who can't have kids, they are hardly to blame. I don't really think the Lord was demanding people have children. I think he was just encouraging them to. TY...this is helpful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted September 18, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 596 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,088 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,829 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, JoniSteele said: That's good for the married Christian. There are also the single ones to consider. Some of them will never marry. God gave mankind the basic command of go forth and multiply and fill the earth.... well we have done that.... and he did not make mandatory for everyone to do that as I remember the scripture. When he was saying that either in Adam's day and the days of Noah, there were very few people on earth... Well those things have changed... one has to take into consideration while we are reading the Bible what is being said, and when, and to whom it is being written for.... not everything written in the Bible is meant for everyone on earth today.... When we do try and put things into that situation it makes for some problems in understanding the word. Not everyone on earth was meant to have and raise children …. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoniSteele Posted September 18, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 15 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 130 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 124 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2019 Status: Offline Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, other one said: God gave mankind the basic command of go forth and multiply and fill the earth.... well we have done that.... and he did not make mandatory for everyone to do that as I remember the scripture. When he was saying that either in Adam's day and the days of Noah, there were very few people on earth... Well those things have changed... one has to take into consideration while we are reading the Bible what is being said, and when, and to whom it is being written for.... not everything written in the Bible is meant for everyone on earth today.... When we do try and put things into that situation it makes for some problems in understanding the word. Not everyone on earth was meant to have and raise children …. TY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.T. Ranger Posted November 2, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 16 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/20/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted November 2, 2019 On 9/18/2019 at 9:39 AM, R. Hartono said: The dream of every couple to raise children with good nutrition, good education, good housing n good saving for their future, isnt that the dream which rich people chase after without sharing it with the poor Lazarus ? Thats why it Will be taken when the world is given to the antichrist to enslave mankind n win their souls to hell. I don't see that as the "dream" of every parent. While we did not have kids we did half raise a nephew and two nieces, and our dreams for them were not material, but spiritual. Above all our desire was that they come to know the Lord, so that whether in poverty or riches here on earth they would have riches not afforded by this world. As to the reason things are "taken" in the Tribulation, I take the view that we see the withdrawal of God's grace upon a secular world as the primary reason for the very tribulation that takes place. The primary reason that they suffer this judgment is because... 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 King James Version (KJV) 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; God bless. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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